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Middletown, Ri, Us

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

• Led the team that introduced the Yolenis concept of Greek restaurants and food distribution in the US • Organized funding of US$ 2.5 M and built the flagship store in Providence RI. • Assisted with the project management and implementation of a complicated renovation of a 130 yr old historic building.• Organized the merchandizing and product mix and flow on the market side promoting small Greek organic producers and local artisan producers.• Set up the online distribution of healthy Greek organic food products reaching sales of US$ 50k in 1 yr with prospect for exponential growth.• Led a team that transformed the eat-in model to adapt to American standards and secure profitability.• Initiated and executed the process of work protocols for all locations to ensure easy training and franchisability.• Initiated franchising to expand the concept in New England and more Northeast states.

Usa-Greece

• Led a group of investors to invest in the upcoming field of information technology and transaction security systems with the use of mobile phones (smart phones did not exist when we started). • Dealt with very innovative technologies related to the introduction of smart phones, loyalty apps, payment apps, security systems. Currently we are patent pending since 2016 and waiting for patent approval on our second layer authentication app. • Installed the security system for Proton Bank in Greece which operated for 2 years without a single breach.• Initiated the Shell loyalty app in Greece, the first of its kind which subscribed over 100.000 customers in the 1st year. • Participated together with Intrasoft SA, a leading Greek software firm, and Carta Ci, a leading Italian processor, in a tender for payment on the pump concept, that we introduced to ENI spa. The project is still pending since 2014. ENI has over 6000 gas stations.• Participated with Securiport in a tender for the security systems (identification of passangers) in the Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens (10mil passengers)

Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

• Created a model for the regulatory environment that would promote sustainability in the United Arab Emirates and worldwide. • Worked close with one of the Sheiks of Ras Al Khaima to create a model for a sustainable city. • Created the outline for a sustainability agency in the UAE :The ambition of this mega project involves the careful use or resources and management of waste, but starts from securing a safe habitat for people, agriculture, water treatment and extending all the way to education and medicine. The set up incorporated strategies for data collection for supervision and multiple actions to promote and finance the cause. The ultimate goal was to have UAE a leader in sustainability worldwide.

Greece, Uae, Shri Lanka, Nigeria

• Led a team that evaluated the bunkering posibilities and oil trading services in various locations where the company was reconsidering strategy. It involved the risk management, the compliance, the validation of the sources and the analysis of business opportunity in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Amongst the projects we were involved in :1. Participation in a national tender in Nigeria for trading crude oil with final products (gasoline and diesel)2. The evaluation of an offer by the government of Shri Lanka for the operation of the port of Hambantota which cost about 1.5Billion. This is a very strategic spot with a state-of-the-art port made by the Chinese, yet with significant infrastructural inland accessibility issues. Still potentially a great bunkering spot, as ships would not need to divert to Colombo or Singapore and potentially a transitional spot for a car or commodity terminal. 3. The evaluation of the bunkering facility and operation in Fujeira of the UAE along with the possibility of the establishment, financing and operation of tank storage on shore, together with 2 feeding ships (refurbishment of the existing or purchase of new or used).

Koropi, Attiki, Greece

• Importing, wholesaling, construction company (carpets, fabrics, synthetic football fields, athletic grounds) with continuous growth and solid results until 2008. (Turnover 7mil)• Participated in public tenders for over 100 soccer fields all over Greece. In preparation for the Olympic games of 2004 in Athens, Greece, our team won a tender with the National Greek Football Association and we constructed 20 official football fields (2.000.000sqft) in a year. We also did the first field to get FIFA RECOMMENDED status in Greece. • Rennovated hundreds of hotels, hospitals, cruise ships and offices selling and installing millions of square ft of carpet, fabric, wallpaper, vinyl floor, acoustic walls and whatever else was required. • Wholesaled carpets and rugs through an extensive network of shops (over 100 all over Greece) but also through chains like Praktiker (a version of Home Depot in Europe)

Stavroúpolis, Eastern Macedonia And Thrace, Greece

• Operated the first carpet jet-printing machine in the world, made by Johannes Jimmern in Austria. • Negotiated the refinancing of the facility (3 mil usd in 1985) • Found innovative financing to invest in raw materials and necessary equipment• Quadrapled sales by introducing new products, but also opening up to new sales networks• Started export attempts and succeeded in the first exports (Libya and USA)• Organized lines of production for maximum efficiency and educated rural workers how to follow quality protocols• Created the quality protocols• Reached a production of 1million square meters a year (11mil.sqft)

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics, Philosophy

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