Build long-term partnerships with key customers and identify new opportunities in Northern Greece

Led and organized the sales growth of SOL Hellas over the Northern Greece region

• Led and organized the sales growth of Air Liquide over the Northern Greece region• Identified new customers and new business opportunities with improved profitability• Screened potential business deals by analyzing market strategies and modern customer needs

• Promoted Air Liquide innovative solutions to existing and competition customers• Identified new customers and new business opportunities• Coordinated execution of technical trials at customer premises

• Contributed to the validation of the marketability of biofuel-related products• Managed joint projects with technology providers and downstream partners of the chemical industry value chain• Ensured external funding for new biofuel production techniques and their commercial development

• Coordinated biodiesel-related activities such as laboratory testing and defining product specifications• Planned research to improve existing products and develop new ones• Performed technology scouting and techno-economic evaluation of projects

• Supervised and conducted experimental work on the conversion of hardwoods and softwoods into bioethanol• Optimized a two-stage pretreatment towards the fractionation and recovery of the cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin components of woody biomass at low cost• Proved the potential of lignin for higher value applications than just its energy content

• Developed tailored biomass pretreatment techniques for the production of sugar streams with high hydrogen fermentability• Participated in international project proposals (writing, calculation of cost budgets, management)

• Project's Task Force Leader in Biomass Technical Suitability• Conducted experimental work on biomass characterization and dark hydrogen fermentations• Contributed to the development of the "fermentability test". A novel tool which elucidates the relation between the chemical pretreatment of agricultural biomass and hydrogen fermentability.