Stefanos Loukakos serves as the Co-founder and CEO of Connectly.ai, a pioneering company in conversational commerce. Connectly.ai, a member of the Scale Up 4th Cohort, is revolutionizing how small and medium-sized businesses convert customer messages into revenue. Their tools centralize communications across platforms like WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram, streamlining the sales process and enabling businesses to interact with customers personally rather than as mere tickets.

His academic background, which provided the foundation for his career, includes advanced degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, followed by an MBA from INSEAD, equipping him with a solid understanding of both engineering and business leadership. Before founding Connectly.ai, Stefanos gained extensive experience in the tech industry, serving as Director at Google and holding a key role at Facebook. He also led Hellas Online, a major telecommunications company in Athens, as CEO, where he demonstrated his leadership and savviness. Stefanos’s innate curiosity drives him to constantly try, change, and move forward, stating: “If you don’t try something, you never know if you’ll be good at it.”