Kostas Papadakis Email & Phone Number

Athens, Attiki, Greece

QonvertIQ - Putting Intelligence Into Sales, Marketing & Advertising in a vast number of industries ranging from defence and digital security into real estate and energy and environment.We utilise a team with over 30 years combined Entrepreneurial experience in International Business Development Solutions & Services, Legal, Constructions and Investing, in B2B and B2C markets, across the world.We operate using a variety of business models to help meet our customers’ preferred and sometimes unique ways to conduct their business. Therefore, we have developed a number of services to suit your business and personal needs, ranging from Consultancy and Managed Services to Re-selling and Re-presentation Services.

QinetiQ is a Defence & Security organisation, diversifying also into Aerospace and Energy & Environement industries and markets, with over 11k employees spread across 3 continents; Europe, North America and Australia, offering a variety of Services & Tech Supply solutions to its customers. During my time with QinetiQ, I've held a number of cross-functional roles and responsibilities (Engineering Lead, Bid & Project Manager, BD & Account Manager, including Regional Director (south EU)), handling over a healthy number of multi-million pound programs. I worked with clients in government organisations, including defence departments, intelligence services and security agencies in addition to commercial and industrial customers around the world.During my late years with QinetiQ, I was responsible for development and execution part of international business strategy, focused on supporting customers to solve important and complex problems. We used a vast range of products and services in a variety of technologies with civil and military applications (engineering tools for commercial ships, warships and submarines design, Security Screening products, Surveilance and Tracking applications, Renewables, Portable Power et al to name a few), using a variety of business models (managed services, technology supply, R&D, consulting).My responsibilities included but not limited to:- Develop new business & achieve International Funnel Growth.- Manage P&L for my regions.- Develop Global Capabilities/Strategic Propositions and take them to markets. - Manage Agents, Advisers, Re-sellers & Consultants accross EU.- Develop & maintain regional strategies & strategic relationships. - Dealing with offset packages and in country industrial participation requirements.- Develop Business cases, as required, to support the establishment of offices and/or Joint Ventures within EU in line with regional strategy.

Consultancy post based in Den Haag, NC3A HQ, working on technology that would/could be used as the next phase of Network Enabled Capabilities NATO programme utilising all available (mainly wireless) bearers/mediums within naval and military platforms combined under IP technology.

Owner of a small International consultancy firm specialising in the provision of Information Security services in security management & penetration testing (layer 3 and above) fields to SMEs in the finance, retail and advertising sectors within the EMEA region.

Beng(Hons) & Masters Of Science, Communication Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tutoring fellow students in C Programming and other subjectsTop prize award for best MSc student [2003].

Mba(Pt), Business Management

Part time study mode, funded by business, working on "live" case studies. Modules taken count as part of an Executive MBA degree with Bath.