BIO
Marco Veremis was born in Athens, in 1973. He holds a BA from the University of Warwick and an MPhil from Oxford University.
He started his career in 1996, as a marketing strategist with Omnicom, WPP and IPG, where he developed global communication strategies for brands such as Nestlé, Smithkline Beecham, Johnson & Johnson and Sony Electronics.
In 2002, he returned to Greece and, along with Alex Vratskides, co-founded Upstream. Since then, Upstream has evolved into a leading global technology company within the field of mobile commerce, conducting business in over 45 markets. He served as Upstream’s CEO until June 2017, and today is its Executive Chairman of the Board, whilst also a partner at BigPi Venture Capital.
He is an active angel investor and member of the board of technology companies such as Persado, Workable and Hellas Direct.
Furthermore, Marcos Veremis is the President of SEN/Junior Achievement Greece and a Board member of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (ΙΟΒΕ), of Endeavor and of the research and policy institute diaNEOsis. He has been awarded with the EY Greek “Entrepreneur of the Year” award, in 2013.
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Yiannis Stassinopoulos
CEO at VIOHALCO S.A
Nikos Moraitakis
CEO, Workable
Dimitri Papalexopoulos
Chairman of Titan Cement International (TCI)
Kallissa Apostolidis
Chairwoman of Board at Raycap
Christos V. Konstantakopoulos
Founder and President of Faliro House | Film Producer & Writer
National bank of Greece
Current representative: Pavlos Mylonas, CEO
Lamda Development
Current Representative: Odysseas Athanassiou, CEO
Eftichiοs Vassilakis
Managing Director of Autohellas S.A./Hertz & Chairman of Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air
Alexis Pantazis
Co-Founder & Executive Director at Hellas Direct
Ιoanna Papadopoulou
President & Managing Director of E.J. PAPADOPOULOS S.A.
Ioannis Martinos
CEO, The Signal Group
Alexander Macridis
Chairman and Managing Director of Chryssafidis S.A.
Dean Dakolias
Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Credit Funds
Michael D. Chandris
Advisor, CHANDRIS GROUP
Andreas Stavropoulos
Vice Chairman at Endeavor Greece | Partner at Threshold Ventures
Costantza Sbokou Constantakopoulou
Chairwoman at Endeavor Greece | Owner & CEO of Phāea Resorts