Akis Temperidis Email & Phone Number

Modena, Italia, It

Since 2013 I collaborate with Maserati S.p.A., initially with the Communications Dept. and later with Marketing Dept. I have completed the following projects together: - US Coast to Coast trip planning and leading in a Maserati Quattroporte (18 days - 9000 kms)- Featured Articles in 20 international media for the coast to coast trip- A web series of 13 episodes from the trip in collaboration with filmmaker Victor Ortega- Author of Special Printed Edition Quaderno Maserati titled "Land of Hopes and Dreams" - Author of Special Printed Edition Quaderno Maserati titled "Gold Rush"- R&D coverage and photography of the Maserati Alfieri Concept Car (Jan-Mar 2014)- R&D coverage and photography of the Maserati Levante MY2016 model- Concept and Design of the Maserati Alfieri Concept Art Book with George Panagiotou - Planning and Coordination of the Maserati Centennial Book DTP & Printing - Chinese Version- Concept and design (with George Panagiotou) of the Printed Exclusive Edition for Maserati MC12VCO- Design, concept and writing of the Maserati Levante Press Kit in English- Design, concept and writing of the Maserati Ghibli MY2017 in English- Design, concept and writing of the Maserati Quattroporte Restyling in English- Concept and writing of the GranTurismo & GranCabrio MY18 Press Kit in English- Concept and writing of the new Ghibli MY18 Press Kit in English- Concept and writing of the Quattroporte MY18 Press Kit in English- Concept and writing of the Levante MY18 Press Kit in English - Concept & editing of all Maserati MY18 Press Kits for www.media.maserati.com- Concept & editing of all Maserati MY19 Press Kits for www.media.maserati.com- Concept of the Levante Trofeo Photo Book, summer 2018. - Maserati Marketing Dotm Consultancy project for the naming and branding of future BEV and PHEV models.- Naming of Maserati GranTurismo Zeda, the last GranTurismo 1.0 ever produced.- Maserati MC20 Art Book concept and Design with Ground Control7 team.

I created www.theworldoffroad.com in 2006 to support our around the world expedition. Year by year, the website - that was updated daily in English and Greek with photos and video diaries - became pretty popular. More than 1500 different users per day (20.000 per month) visited the website in 2010, when we returned to Europe. Since then, I changed completely the website and now intend to transform it in a travel blog for "hardcore travelers" and overlanders. The old site is still there and you can visit it clicking www.theworldoffroad.gr.

Motoroids of India started in 2010 as a blog for cars and bikes and developed to a popular, very well informed website with 15.000 single visitors in daily basis. Motoroids is created by Amit Chhangani and a team of Indian car and motorcycle journalists. Thanks to my friendship with Amit, I just started reporting on the website with feature stories mostly related to the Italian automotive industry.

Thanks to Greek Team Manager Stelios Fakalis, I was recruited as team photographer at the Ukranian Tsunami Racing Team, competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup of Italy and France with Alex Gaidai as official driver. In 2004 I undertook the Media Relations of the Team and part of its Social Media support. In 2015, Tsunami won the Teams title in the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia and in 2016 won the driver's title in the Italian series with French champion Côme Ledogar.

Since I left my position at 4Wheels magazine as deputy editor, I continued as a semi employed journalist till April 2007, when we started our TheWorldOffroad project and continued to report consistently with extended monthly articles. Since December 2010, I am an an external contributor to the magazine. From March 2012, I am based in Italy in order to provide feature articles to the magazine as a European contributor.

Athens, Attika, Gr

Since Kosmocar SA became the official supplier of Ducati motorcycles in Greece, I am in the 2Delta Productions team supervising the social media of the company, feeding with news and videos facebook, youtube and dailymotion pages of the company. I also translated the Official Ducati website in Greek. You can see the Ducati Hellas website at www.ducati.gr and tell me your opinion about the work done.

After our trip around the world, we took a break with my wife in the Tanzanian bush, where we run a luxury safari lodge, the brand new gem of east Africa, Saadani River Lodge. The lodge was created to protect the threatened environment of Wami river. Our life in the bush gave us the opportunity to survey in daily basis the habitats of hippos, crocodiles, colobus monkeys, lions and tens of bird species. I could write a small book after this experience...

In April 2007, after a long period of planning and sponsor agreements, my partner Vula, me and our brand new Land Rover Discovery3 – the so called “karibu” – departed from Greece sponsored by 4TPOXOI magazine. After a week we were entering Africa. Our dream was coming true. Our project had a title “TheWorldOffroad” and a subtitle: “around the earth in 800 days”.In the end, it took 1177 days to drive 167.500 km. through 67 countries in 5 continents to complete our trip, which proved to be a worthy experience for both of us, even more than we could have thought about.It was a lifetime adventure that made me believe that I could keep traveling for ever. The world was so familiar, it was like home anywhere. In a way, I still keep traveling and I always work for the next project theworldoffroad2!Our expedition was a media success in Greece and abroad. In less than 4 years we took more than 150.000 pictures and filmed our life in more than 200 hours. I wrote around 600 printed pages of articles in different magazines. We uploaded around 1000 diary articles on our website www.theworldoffroad.gr.Our videos were shown on most different TV channels in Greece and shown on major channels in India, Tanzania, Australia and Peru. The adventure of two people surviving in the most remote places in the world was inspiring to thousands of people.

I got involved in Acropolis Rally in 1999 working as a reporter for the Press Office, thanks to the recommendation of Stratis Chatzipanagiotou. I was reporting news from competitors directly from the finish of the special stages - a hard job actually. I became a standard member of the Press Office and in 2002 I undertook the role of assistant Press Officer. In 2003, year that Acropolis Rally was celebrating its 50 years I became Press Officer of the event, a role I kept till 2006. During the event, the P.O. relates with more than 250 accredited journalists from around the world. Highlight of my career in the Acropolis Rally was the organizing of the Superspecial stage in the Olympic stadium of Athens in 2005, where 67.000 people watched an unprecedented show. Thanks to this success story, Acropolis Rally was voted by FIA "Best Rally of 2005" and our Press Office was voted "Best Press Office of 2005". Acropolis Rally and its Press Office reached the top mark among 15 events in 2006 as well.

I was appointed Deputy Editor in the top car magazine of Greece in 2002 but even after that I continued mainly as a contributor in all fields, from car tests & presentations to major interviews, F1 & WRC coverage & travel stories. During this period I did exclusive interviews with more than 30 personalities in the car industry (Carlos Ghosn, Bernie Ecclestone, Chris Bangle, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Walter da Silva, most F1 & WRC drivers), I tested most production cars, many supercars, WRC cars, F3 etc), participated two times at Dakar rally in a Press car.

This period was creative for me and extremely flourishing for my relationship with Technical Press. Based in Thessaloniki, I contributed consistently articles for 4Wheels, 2Wheels & Flight (Ptisi & Diastima) magazines.

Together with Mr. George Papadopoulos we created one of the first adventure tour operators, “Voyager”. Its purpose was to fdesign tailored adventure activities and trips for individuals and companies, like incentive trips, road tests. Highlight of the company was the organizing of a safety driving course in Thessaloniki in cooperation with MegaTV car program, 4Wheels magazine and Iaveris rally driver

I started writing about cars in AutoMoto magazine published by Mr. John Pampoukis since 1980. The period I join the magazine there were only four of its kind in Greece (4TPOXOI, Auto Express, IXAuto & Auto Moto) and the professional car journalists were not more than a handful in the country. I started writing on March '86 and from '87 I was deputy editor and main contributor to the magazine with 35-40 pages in every bimonthly issue.

In association with John Pampoukis and Auto Moto magazine, I started producing a radio program for cars & motorcycles on Radio Paratiritis - “Radio Observer” - station of Thessaloniki.

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