Dr. Tassos Vassilopoulos is a seasoned ICT leader with a Ph.D. in Distributed Database Systems. He currently serves as the CIO and DPO for Deutsche Post DHL Express Hellas and in Southeast Europe, where he leads digital transformation and ICT strategy.
With over 25 years of experience, Dr. Vassilopoulos has a strong track record in ICT governance, project management, and academic teaching. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and a recognized expert in the field. He has been honored on the IT 100 Powerlist 2022 and serves on jury committees for various technology awards.
Vassilis Kafatos (Equity Partner – member of the Executive Committee) is Deloitte Greece Growth Leader and President of the Deloitte Alexander Competence Center. He specializes in corporate & digital strategy, innovation, business model transformation, financial management and mergers & acquisitions. Vassilis has over 25 years of advisory experience in various sectors including travel, hospitality, shipping, ports, investment management, consumer business and manufacturing. He serves as Trustee of the Board of Anatolia College, as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the American – Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Industries of Greece, as President of the Advisory Board of the Council on Competitiveness of Greece, and as member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Museum of Macedonian Struggle. He holds a degree in Economic Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MBA in Corporate Strategy from the University of Texas at Austin and postgraduate diplomas in Business Leadership from IMD (Institute for Management Development), Lausanne.
Konstantinos Gioulekas was born in Thessaloniki and comes from a merchant family. He has a son, 24-year-old Petros – Grigoris. He is a graduate of Law and Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a master’s degree in Criminal Law and a PhD in Modern Greek History. He worked as a lawyer for 20 years, specializing in Criminal and Commercial Law, while also having a long career in journalism for almost 30 years. Since 2000, he has been elected as an MP with the party ”New Democracy”. He is the Deputy Minister of the Interior, responsible for Macedonia-Thrace issues. He was Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs (June 2013 – June 2014) and Deputy Minister of the Interior (2008 – 2009). He was also President of the Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament from 2019 to 2023 and Chairman of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Public Administration, Justice and Public Order and Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Penitentiary System. At the same time, he has written books of historical content, while a large part of his collection of relics is permanently exhibited in the War Museum of Thessaloniki.
Synthia was born in Thessaloniki, studied German Language and Literature and got a master’s degree in communication and linguistics. Furthermore she studied theatre and journalism. She speaks 5 languages, English, Italian, Russian, German and have attended seminars about gender discriminations.
She has worked in the municipal Tv Channel of Thessaloniki, in ERT1, ERT2, ERT3, in Mega channel, in the newspapers Apogevmatini and Makedonia (where she created three magazines as an editor in Chief), worked as a radio producer and journalist at Amagi radio station and as columnist in the newspapers Makedonia and Karfitsa. Since August 2015 she works at ERT3 initially as a TV hostess than as a news caster and now as Director of the News Department. She is member of the Board in Vafopouleio Cultural Center, and of the Board of Momus Museums.
Antonis Katraouras is General Manager, Head of Commercial Banking. He has over 30 years of experience in leadership positions in Corporate & Retail Banking. Strategic priorities: – supporting SME enterprises, customer relationships across the country, informing them of market conditions, investment challenges, opportunities. – financing sustainable business plans in all sectors, advising for best practices. – promoting the digital transformation of SMEs and supporting the ESG model of business.
Ioannis Tsaras obtained his degree from the School of Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1975-1980), his Master’s degree (MSc) from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of California (1981-1982), and a Doctorate degree (PhD) from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Michigan, USA (1982-1985).
Mr. Tsaras was Managing Director and CEO of AN.KO S.A. (1990-1993), a development company that executes large energy, irrigation and spatial planning projects, then CEO of K.EP.A. (1994-2004), a company founded by the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece and the Association of Exporters of Northern Greece, which finances small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as eligible industries, leveraging resources from European financial instruments, designed for the private sector.
After that he was appointed as Managing Director and CEO of the listed company ThPA S.A. (2004-2010), executive vice president of ELIME and later of EKAL (National Port Development Center), member of the Board of Directors of ESPO (European Seaport Organization) as a representative of Greek Ports. From 2010 – 22/8/2024, he has worked as General Manager of PFIC Ltd, a large phosphate fertilizer chemical industry, with over 1.000 employees.
He participated in monitoring and auditing committees of sectoral and regional programs of the European Community Support Framework (Interreg, Retex, Valoren, Leader).
Mr. Tsaras worked as Researcher and Teacher in the area of computational fluid mechanics and sea waves.
Marinos Giannopoulos, CEO of Enterprise Greece, is an accomplished finance and academic expert with a Doctorate in Strategic Management. He studied economics at the University of Liverpool, earned a master’s in international business economics from City University London, and completed a PhD at Brunel University London. His dissertation explored the impact of asset divestitures on acquisition performance in Greece.
Mr. Giannopoulos has over a decade of experience in the banking sector in Greece and the UK, focusing on credit risk management in investment banking and portfolio consolidation across emerging Europe. He played a key role in supporting Greece’s National Recovery and Resilience Fund – Greece 2.0, collaborating with European and Greek government bodies.
From 2013 to 2019, he advised New Democracy’s Secretariat for International Relations & EU. He has published extensively in international journals and taught at Brunel University and the Hellenic Open University, specializing in Strategic Management and Business Economics.
George Zavvos is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Development Bank, that is focused on facilitating SMEs’ access to financing, while promoting innovation and SMEs’ green and digital transition.
From July 2019 to August 2021, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance responsible for the financial system. During this time he designed, negotiated with the EU institutions and implemented the Hercules Asset Protection Scheme (APS). As a result of the Hercules APS, the non-performing loans of the Greek systemic banks were reduced to 6.8% in the end of 2022 from 45% in July 2019 – “a magnitude of improvement unsurpassed by the banking industry anywhere” as Bloomberg recently noted. Furthermore, he introduced significant reforms in the functioning of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund as well as in the Greek capital market (law on corporate governance) and microfinance.
Previously, George Zavvos served at the European institutions for over 30 years, including as a Member of the European Parliament (1990-1994), European Commission Ambassador to Slovakia (1994-1997) and Legal Adviser at the Legal Service of the European Commission (2002 -2017).
George Zavvos was Professor at the Solvay Business School (ULB) in Brussels (1991-1993) and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London (2004-2007). He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Athens University and a postgraduate Degree in EU Law from the College of Europe (Bruges). He has written and lectured extensively on EU banking and financial services law matters. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Economics in Bratislava (2004) and has been awarded the Double Cross of the Slovak Republic.
Niki Kerameus currently serves as the Minister of Labour and Social Security of the Hellenic Republic.
• Previously, she served as Minister of the Interior between 2023 and 2024 and as Minister of Education and Religious Affairs between 2019 and 2023. She has been a Member of Parliament with New Democracy since January 2015.
• She is a lawyer with over 15 years of work experience (mainly in international arbitration) and a member of the Athens and New York Bar Associations, having studied in France (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, summa cum laude) and the United States (Harvard Law School).
• She has been particularly involved in community service through DESMOS, a non-profit foundation of which she is a founding member and first president. She has been awarded for her pro bono legal services to homeless groups in New York City.
• She speaks fluently English and French, and has basic knowledge of German.
Panagiotis (Takis) Dimitriou Theodorikakos is Minister of Development and Member of Hellenic Parliament of Athens B3 Constituency (South).
He was elected in the 2023 national elections with 47.300 votes and was ranked second.
He was Strategy and Communication Advisor to the President of ND since October 2015 and Coordinator of Strategic Planning and Communication of the party, from October 2016 until the victorious election contests of May and July 2019 when he was elected as Member of State of the ND.
• In July 2019, he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Minister of the Interior.
• In August 2021 he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Minister of Citizen Protection.
• In June 2024 he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Minister of Development.
• He has a long professional career as Political researcher and analyst and Strategy Advisor.
• PhD in Public Policies at the University of Peloponnese where he taught at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences till June 2019.
• He was a scientific partner and president of the company GPO SA, from 2000 to 2016. He has presented important social and political research in Greece and abroad at scientific conferences, workshop and mass media.
Graduated from the Pedagogical Department of EKPA. He completed his Master’s studies at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of EKPA in political science and sociology specializing in electoral sociology.
He graduated from the High School of the Ionidios Standard School.
He was born in 1964 in Piraeus.
He is married and has two children.
