Board of Directors
President
Mr. Theodoros Venetsanos
Honorary Consul General of Bangladesh
Vice President
Ms. Maria Iliopoulou
General Manager, Hellenic Red Cross
Secretary
Mr. Argiris Baklezos
Executive Director Management Consultance, ICAP Group
Members
Dr. Spyros Costopoulos
Advisor, Civil Engineer-Geotechnician, Geoplan Ltd.
Mr. Ioannis Iriotis
Ioannis Iriotis Law Office
Mr. Nikolaos Kavallieros
General Manager, Association of Greek Coastal Shipping Companies
Mr. Antonis Lagadianos
Partner, INCE & Co.
Mr. Argyris Michailakis
Economist-Legal Advisor, Plus Consulting
Ms. Eleftheria Pikrou-Moraitaki
President, A’ District, Athens
Dr. Christoforos Sardelis
Banker
Mr. Panagiotis Tsafaras
Members’ Network, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV)
Executive Committee
Mr. Theodoros Venetsanos
Mr. Argyris Michailakis
Mr. Panagiotis Tsafaras
Scholarship, Awards, and Financial Aid Fund Committee
Mr. Theodoros Venetsanos
Mr. Argyris Michailakis
Mr. Panagiotis Tsafaras
Membership Committee
Mr. Nikolaos Kavallieros
Dr. Christoforos Sardelis
Mr. Panagiotis Tsafaras
Theodoros P. Venetsanos
President
EDUCATION
Greek Naval Academy: Degree 1969
Commissioned to the Hellenic Coast Guard.
Aspropyrgos Merchant Marine Academy: Degree 1964
Diploma of Marine Engineer
Training in London in Shipping 1973 and 1977
LANGUAGES
Greek, English, Italian, Albanian
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
From 1966 served in the Hellenic Coast Guard and retired as Commander in 1981. He was then involved in shipping. At the present, he is still involved in the shipping business and has extended his activities in the renewable energy sector with particular emphasis in the solar energy.
He is the Honorary Consul General of Bangladesh in Greece since 1990.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Founder and Chairman of the Greek-Bangladeshi
Commercial and Cultural Chamber (since 2004)
2. Founder and Chairman of the foundation “LIKNO
Cultural and Ecological Park-Venetsanos Museum (1994 to present)
3. Fine arts collector (since 1983)
Ms. Maria Iliopoulou
Since 1990, Ms. Illiopoulou has been with the Hellenic Red Cross, where, since 2008 she has served as General Manager and Financial Manager. She has served in numerous political capacities within New Democracy, among which:
1983-1986: New Democracy, Youth of New Democracy and Greeks Abroad
1990-2000: Member of Private Sector DAKE (Independent Democratic Educational Movement)
1990-2000: President of Federation of Private Hospitals
1993-2000: President of Administrative Employees of Red Cross
2001-2009: Economist in New Democracy
2008-present: Board of Directors (Executive Committee) of the Korgialleneio-Benakeio Public Hospital.
Awards
1985: 2nd prize, European Council “European Union-Perspectives”
1989: 1st prize, Foundation King Paul “Humanitarianism:Today and Tomorrow”.
2000: 1st prize, Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Enterprises and Handicraft “Development and Perspectives”
2005: 2nd prize, E.R.U “Peace in Work Environment: Patterns of Communication and Participation”
Mr. Argiris Baklezos, is the General Manager of Sun Microsystems Hellas.
He began his career with EDS and in 1995 he became the IT Manager of Cybermedia R&D. In 1997 he moved to KPMG, where as a Manager and Senior Manager he was accountable for the development and promotion of cutting edge technology solutions (Data Warehouse, MIS, Information Risk Management, e-Business etc.) as well as the administration of various project in Greece and abroad.
In 2005 he began his career at Sun as a Client Solutions Manager for Greece, Balkans and Adriatic and then took over the Professional Services department for Russia, South Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa covering a total of 96 countries. Since June 2007, Mr. Baklezos is the General Manager and CEO of Sun Microsystems Hellas.
Mr. Baklezos holds a Bachelor degree in Maths and an MSc in SW Engineering. He is also a Certified IS Auditor (CISA) and ACCA certified. Prior to joining Sun 3 years ago, Mr. Baklezos worked as a Manager and Senior Manager at KPMG, thus bringing along significant consulting experience in parallel to his technological expertise in Banking and Marketing.
Dr. Spyros Costopoulos
Since Dr Costopoulos served as teaching assistant at EPFL of Switzerland, where he mainly taught foundation design, earth pressure theories and soil laboratory. While attending post-graduate courses (3eme cycle) in soil, rock and structural engineering at EPFL, he was engaged in design with and ELECTROWATT, Switzerland (1972-1973).
From 1996 to 2008 he was Associate Professor of Soil Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece.
In 1976-77 he did his military service while working as associate for the structural design office of A. Karanikolas and Associates.
From 1977 to 1989 Dr Costopoulos worked as an independent consultant initially in the structural design of high rise buildings, industrial installations, silos, pipelines and strengthening of structural flames, and then in soil and rock investigations, studies and supervisions of over 120 geotechnical projects. His geotechnical work involved site reconnaissance, planning, supervision and interpretation of ground investigations, field and laboratory, as well as design studies of shallow and deep foundations of buildings, industrial plants, storage tanks, silos, bridges, harbour works, excavations and retaining structures, slope stability analysis, stabilization of unstable slopes, pavements, drainage systems, restoration of historic monuments, soil improvement by pre-loading, gravel columns, geotextiles etc; he was also involved in monitoring of geotechnical structures.
From 1989 to 1993 he was partner in the GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN COMPANY - CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS LTD (G.E.C) where he designed, individually of collectively, over 40 geotechnical structures including earth of rockfill dams, embankments, tunnels, reinforced earth, landslide control, permanent anchors, deep excavations and retaining structures, foundations of buildings, hospitals, sport facilities, factories and special foundations such as a wide-span bridge on piles, a stadium by dynamic compaction etc; he was also involved in the quality control of a Pond construction.
In 1993 he founded GEOPLAN Ltd where he served as Partner and Managing Director. Since 1997 he is Consultant of GEOPLAN Ltd where he was involved in the design and supervision of over 200 geotechnical works.
Member TCG (1971), SPME (1971), ASCE (1995), ISSMFE, ISRM, ISEG, SSMSTF, ΕΛΟΤ, ΕΕΕΘ, ΕΕΣΥΕ
Dr Costopoulos has given numerous lectures in Greece and in other European countries in soil and rock engineering and has also published over 60 technical papers in international and Greek journals and conference proceedings. He is author of three scientific books in geotechnical engineering. He has participated in numerous conferences and symposia, in some of which he was invited lecturer or member of the Organizing Committee, like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Hellenic Conferences on Geotechnical Engineering. His main research interests lie in the study of the behaviour of deep excavations, soft rocks, physical modeling of geotechnical structures and back analysis of monitored geotechnical structures.
Mr. Argyris Michailakis
Member of the Bodosaki Foundation (until 1985)
Advisor to the Minister of Finance on legal and banking issues (1985-1986)
Ipodikitis tis Ellinikis Trapezis Biomixanikis Anaptixis (1986-1987)
Advisor to numerous corporations and organizations (until the present)
Mr. Nikolaos Kavalieros
Since Position/Profession: Business Consultant
Place & Date of Birth: Alexandroupoli - 01/02/1951
Education: Jr School – Alexandroupoli, Halkida. High school (lower and upper secondary school) – Arta & 15th Unified Gymnasio and Lykeio of Kypseli. After completing secondary school he was admitted to the Political Science Department of the Pantion University and following that to the Athens University Law School from which he graduated in 1974.
Career: After completing his studies he enrolled in the Coast Guard Cadet Academy for 20 months and in 1975 graduated with the rank of Coast Guard Sub-lieutenant. He served in the Piraeus Port Authorities as Department Head, as Director and Unit Commander in Lavrio and Rafina, as Chief Harbour-master in Elefsina and finally as Consulate Harbour-master in Odessa, Ukraine. He also served at the Ministry of Mercantile Marine as Director of Marine Communications and Branch head of Naval Policy. He was discharged in 2002 with the rank of Coast Guard Rear Admiral and until 2004 was a commissioner of the independent body RATHE (regulatory authority for marine transport) whose object was to monitor the implementation by Greece of European Regulation 3577/92 on marine transport (coastal shipping). Today he is General Manager of the Association of Greek Coastal Shipping Companies, Managing Director of the company Combined Transportation & Storage, Authorised Consultant to the Hydrodotiki Business Group and special consultant on coastal shipping issues to the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping.
Publications: He has published dozens of articles in maritime journals in Greece.
Distinctions: He has been awarded the Medal of Military Merit first-class and the Order of Honour as well as other medals for merit and honour, long-time Service first-class and seasonal Service first-class.
Member of Associations & Organisations: As president of the Cultural Association of Traditional Boats, he concerned himself with rescuing and preserving traditional wooden boats and succeeded in stopping the subsidised program to destroy traditional wooden fishing boats which was implemented to allegedly reduce fishing in Greece. Furthermore, he is preparing a floating museum of traditional Greek boats in order for the younger generations to get to know traditional boats such as the trehantiri, the perama, the varkalas, the skouna, the latini, the karavoskaro, the kaiki, etc.
Ms. Eleftheria Pikrou-Moraitaki
Since 1990 Ms. Pikrou-Moraitaki has been working in the financial and economic field in the USA (Boston University and Merrill Lynch) and Greece (Barclays Bank, Nuntius Hellenic Securities Exchange, Bank of Cyprus).
Since 2006, she has been actively involved with the Mayor of Athens, Mr. Nikitas Kaklamanis, as the Athens’ A District Advisor for the project “Athens, City of our Lives”. Since 2007, she has also been actively involved as the President of the Education Committee of Athens’ A District; is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Garden; and elected President for a two-year term of Athens’ A District Annex, Panathinaikos Youth Women's Organization
Ms. Pikrou-Moraitaki received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Science in Business Management with a major in International Finances, from Boston College in Massachusetts, USA; Securities Representative certified under the Securities and Exchange Commission for Greece and Cyprus; and certified portfolio manager and investment advisor.
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