Αρχεία: Speakers

Stavros Kalafatis is the Deputy Minister of Interior Responsible for Macedonia – Thrace. He also served as Deputy Minister of Development (2007 – 2009), Minister of Macedonia – Thrace (2009), Alternate Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (2012-2014). He’s been a member of the Greek Parliament since 2003. He’s been reelected as a member of the Parliament in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019.
His political carrier started in 1998 when he was elected into the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki and sworn in as Deputy Mayor responsible for the Environment and the Green Belt in 1999. He served as special advisor of Communications and Public/International Relations to the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki (2000-December 2002).
He was born in Thessaloniki in 1965. He’s an Attorney at Law. He studied Law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued his education receiving an MA in International Studies from the same institution in 1991. In 1994, he took a second MA from the University of Maryland, USA, in Sports Management. He worked as a Communications Manager for “Macedonia”, one of the most popular newspapers in Greece. He was a Management and Communications Consultant of the soccer team PAOK. He also taught sports management at private colleges. He’s married to Vicky Moisiadou with whom he has a daughter and a son.

Adonis Georgiadis was born on November 6th, 1972, in Athens.
He graduated from the Faculty of History & Archaeology of the School of Philosophy of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.
In 1993, he took over the management of publications ‘GEORGIADIS-LIBRARY OF GREEK’. In 1994, he founded the Liberal Studies Center “GREEK EDUCATION”.
Elected MP in Athens B region in the elections of 2007 and 2009 with the LAOS political party.
In February 2012, he joined the Nea Demokratia political party, having resigned from the parliamentary office. Elected with Nea Demokratia in Athens B in the national elections of 2012 and 2015.
In 2011, he was Vice Minister of Shipping in the Government of Lucas Papademos and in 2013 he was appointed Minister of Health in the Government of Antonis Samaras.
On January 18th, 2016, he was appointed one of the two Vice-Presidents of the Nea Demokratia by decision of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the President of Nea Demokratia.
On July 9th, Adonis Georgiadis was appointed as Minister of Develpopment and Investments after the 2019 greek elections.
He is married to Eugenia Manolidou and they have two children, Perseus and Alcaeus.

Zoltan Daniel Kurucz is a Mechanical & Electrical Engineer and has many years of experience in major projects. He works at CNIM Group since 2010 and has been the Project Manager for Elevators and Escalators for the Reconstruction of Line 4 and Line 3 at Budapest Metro.

Mr. Anastasios Tzikas is an Electrical Engineer graduate from the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

He is the President of Thessaloniki International Fair HELEXPO SA, from 2013 until today and Technopolis Thessaloniki ICT Business Park S.A., from 2001 until today.

He is the Vice President of the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece, member of the BoD of Thessaloniki Tourism Organisation and of the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus.

He has been one of the founders of the “Singular Northern Greece SA” and served as the CEO for the “Singular Northern Greece SA” and “Singular Software SA”, companies, the period between 1987 and 2004. During this period, he also served as the CEO of “Singular Bulgaria” and “Singular Romania” and as Executive Director and member of the BoD of “Delta Singular”.

Last but not least, he has been nominated as Honorary President of the «Federation of Hellenic Information Technology & Communications Enterprises – SEPE», in which he served as President for 8 years and also Honorary President of “Association of Information Technology Companies of Northern Greece – SEPVE” in which he served as President for 15 years.

 

With over 13 years of experience in supply chain optimization and digital transformation projects, Mata Chatzicharalampous is a seasoned professional in the areas of operations management and integrated business planning. Her expertise lies in tactical and strategic supply chain management, business excellence and operational execution.
She has gained extensive experience in business transformation, performance optimization, change and risk management and has worked in several industries such as consumer goods, consumer electronics, energy, FMCG, healthcare and logistics.
She possesses an MSc in Operations Research from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Management Science and Technology from AUEB. On top she is a Master Black Belt Lean Six Sigma from the Project Management Institute and has obtained a postgraduate certification in Business Analytics from AUEB.

The President and CEO of Kri Kri, Mr. Panagiotis Tsinavos was born in 1957 in Serres. He holds a degree in Chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while he has attended post-graduate studies in Milan in the Dairy field.
Mr. Tsinavos started his activity at Kri Kri (established by his father in 1954) in 1983 as a production manager, while in 1987 he assumed the duties of Commercial Director. His contribution to the development of the company’s sales network was essential. In 1992 he attended a two-year postgraduate program in Business Administration.
In 1994, he assumed the position of Managing Director of Kri Kri S.A., while from 2003 until today he is also the President of the company.
Mr. Tsinavos has received the “Kouros” Entrepreneurship Award, as well as the title of “Dynamically growing entrepreneur of the year” by Ernst & Young, and the title of “Manager of the Year”.
It is his people-centered philosophy that has created strong relationships of trust between employees and management.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Moemen Afify is a Full-time Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He taught several courses in both undgergraduate and post-graduate studies in several other universities as well, such as architectural design, environmental design and control systems, renewable energy sources, shade and shadow., Dr. Afify is specialized in environmental design and planning as well as energy conservation in buildings. He worked as the Environmental Optimization Coordinator for the new American University in Cairo Project through Sasaki/CDC. Dr. Afify worked in several projects related to environmental studies such as in the cities of Cairo, Aswan and other similar projects. He also developed the environmental strategies for several projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Being an architect, Dr. Afify designed several projects taking into account environmental optimization processes. He was also the member of the committee for the Egyptian Code for Energy Conservation, as well as the technical committee for the new Grand Museum of Egypt during the design stage. He is also the member for the Committee of the Building Code for the Disabled. Dr. Afify also is a professional architect and he established M A Consultants, a private consulting architectural firm on 1983. M A consultants were responsible on the design of several large projects in Egypt and overseas. He is specialized in the dsign of public, office, service and industrial buildings as well as retail. He won large number of architectural competitions the latest of which is the new headquarters building of Misr Makasah office building in the Administrative Capital. Dr. Afify also design and supervised a large number of projects whith a sustainable approach among which four of them won United States Green Building Council Certificate – LEED certificate.

Konstantinos Koukountzos is the Managing Director of Kleemann, one of the major elevator manufacturing companies in the European and global market based in Greece, Kilkis, with its distribution network expanding to more than 100 countries. Born in 1973, Konstantinos holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University, USA. Before his current position he has worked as MD in Leistritz in Bochum, Germany, as Kleemann’s Plant Director and Kleemann’s General Manager. He is a member of the Managing Committee and the Board of Directors of SBE (Federation of Industries of Greece), a Member of the Northern Greece Committee of AMCHAM, the Vice President of PETAK (Lift Technology Association of Greece) and also a Member of the Board of Directors of ThessIntec SA.

Mr. George Milonas was born in Greece in 1959, in the city of Serres. He is married and has three children. He studied Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He completed postgraduate studies in Business Research at the London School of Economics (M.Sc. in Operational Research, L.S.E.). He is the President & CEO of ALUMIL S.A. and all the branches of the Group in Greece and abroad (over 30 subsidiaries). He has served as President of the Board of the Federation of Industries of Greece. Today, he is Vice President of ThessINTEC and a member of the Boards of the Aluminium Association of Greece and Alexandria Innovation Zone of Thessaloniki. He speaks English, German and Italian.

Mr Athanasios Psyllos has been the Chief Corporate Banking Officer of Attica Bank since March 2020. Before joining Attica Bank, he worked for 17 years (2003-2020) at Piraeus Bank in various managerial positions: he started as Director in the Small Business & Professionals Department and then as Assistant General Manager. He moved to Attica Region Business Centers as Deputy General Manager and later launched the CIB Hotel & Tourism Financing Unit.
He started his professional career in 1996 at Citibank N.A., where he worked as a Credit Manager in the Business Banking Division and remained until 2002.
He holds an MBA from the University of Indianapolis and a BA from the University of Portsmouth.
In the past, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Piraeus Leasing SA., Cyprus Leasing S.A., and Budget S.A. subsidiary of Avis – Greece S.A.