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Larnaca, Cyprus

Omilia's Natural Language Understanding technologies allow the enterprise to finally reap the benefits that artificial intelligence and natural language have been promising for years. Highlights:► Heading an International team of over 70 managers and employees.► Heading international sales operations in US, Can, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, Poland, South Africa, Brasil and LATAM.

Cyprus

Justexpand.com is a One-Stop-Shop International Business Development Hub.►JustExpand brings IT tech innovator companies immense and immediate added value in their efforts for international expansion by allowing them to capitalize on JustExpand's vast network of localy based professional Business Development Directors.►By riding JustExpand's network of experienced Business Developers and using their direct contacts with decision makers in banks, MNOs, Media and Tech companies, our clients penetrate global markets in a highly effective, rapid and organized manner.►Our Global team of international Business Developers are covering 13 geographies and 56 countries based out of local hub offices, and in such way our clients can prioritize markets and geographies to meet their particular strategic objectives.

Istanbul, Turkey

EVAM is one of the leading companies in Real Time Actionable Streaming Analytics in EMEA.With more than 30 installations in Banks, Telcos, Mobile Network Operators, Payment Institutions and Media Groups we are the fastest growing streaming analytics company in EMEA and pioneers in turning insights to ACTIONS! and increasing cross selling and up selling campaign uptake by up to 12X.

Keynote Speaker in International conferences with focus on:► Mobile Technologies► Mobile Marketing and Loyalty► Mobile Payments► Customer Experience Management ► Natural Language Understanding & the future of the Contact CentreConferences:► 2014 May / ΜΤΝ Summit Johannesburg RSA: "Re-inventing Value Added Services for MNOs"► 2014 Mar / Huawei Summit Jakarta: "Re-inventing Value Added Services for MNOs"► 2013 Nov / International Travel Insurance Conference, Vienna: "Reinventing marketing and loyalty through mobile devices"► 2012 Dec / Customer Service – Managing a Challenging Future, Athens: "NLU : The Future of Customer Care"► 2012 June / Private Equity Forum - Athens : "Mobile Marketing: Turning Weakness to Strength with Push Loyalty Promotions"► 2011 June / CommunicAsia MEF Asia - Singapore "Mobile Marketing: Communicating in 160 characters"► 2011 May / IIR Customer Experience Management, Dubai "Mobile Marketing: Communicating in 160 characters"

Athens, Greece

JusteXpand.com is helping arx.net develop its international go-to-market strategy and bring arx.net cloud services to the world!Founded in year 1997, arx.net is a mobile technology powerhouse that builds mobile and IT services for Mobile Network Operators. Arx.net employs more than 45 engineers and IT specialists, and has produced more than 300 mobile applications for all existing mobile OS. Arx.net had been selected by Vodafone as a leading developer partner for creating Vodafone 360, and has recently won an app award from Samsung and became a strategic mobile development partner developing a number of applications for them.

Palo Alto, California

JusteXpand was awarded project to help trafficDNA bring a new breed of DSP advertising platform into life, and gain traction into the ultra competitive European market.Highlights:• brought new alliances with online airticket issuers around Europe• conducted cross EU research for designing & marketing a new DSP advertising platform• brought more than 10 new deals in Spain, US, EU

Athens, Greece

Viva Payment Services SA is an ECB legally licensed payment institute, with legal license to process payments for 30 countries of the EU (EU passported payment institution). Viva Payments Services offers a ground-breaking web and mobile payment checkout and gateway that will forever change the mobile payments world as we know it.Highlights• Heading an International team of 2 Business Developer Agents.• Set up expansion of Viva Payment Services and Vivawallet to Spain, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania.• Set up alliances and partnerships with international players

Athens, Greece

WARPLY stands for a new way of delivering loyalty and direct marketing on mobile though Rich Media Push. Brands and developers can now send interactive Rich media mobile marketing campaigns to any iOS, Android, BB and WM7 APPs that have been built using WARPLY (Web Activated Rich Push) SDK. WARPLY has been bringing great results for Banks, Mobile Network Operators, Airlines, Retailers and Sports Clubs with redemption rates close to 60%!WARPLY notifications are Interactive, Rich Medium, Branded, Targeted, 1-click to action (SMS, Call and PAY), connected directly to the BI systems of Brands.In other words WARPLY is a new 360o approach to loyalty and sales.

Going Up S.A., is the inventor of the SMS Super Promo, with more than 40 Mega SMS promotions on more than 17 countries in 4 continents with more than 25 MNOs.Position included:► Sales Management and Control► New Business Development► New Projects Deployment Planning and Implementation ► Contractual Negotiations► Procurement of services / Outsourcing of Operations► International Operations, including financial planning, Profit repatriation, and Tax planning, Procurement of Services, Legal Framework analysis, Creating local presence in markets ► Campaign Launch and Marketing through the mobile channel.

Ba, Marketing Management

Activities and Societies: Elected Vice President of The Student Council years 1990 and 1991 Elected President of the Marketing Society.

Apolitirion, High School