Emilios Markou is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Hellas Direct. Prior to Hellas Direct, he was a Director in the European Financial Institutions Structuring team at Barclays Capital. Before that, he was an Executive Director at the Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division, where he led a number of projects within the firm's European insurance practice.

A former strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, Emilios advised a number of European, US, and Asian clients on numerous strategic issues in insurance, banking, energy, and transportation. Emilios is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA) in the United Kingdom and has been honored with the prestigious EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Cyprus 2022.