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 Dr.
Dimosthenis Arhodidis
is a Teaching Fellow at AIT. He is currently an
Assistant General Manager and Head of Global
Markets Sales at EFG Eurobank Ergasias. He
focuses on all aspects of capital markets
(origination, syndication, distribution,
derivatives and structured products). In the
past, he has worked for strategy consulting firm
Monitor Company on various projects in the
United States, United Arab Emirates and Greece.
He also worked as a structurer and sales person
of structured derivative products (interest
rate, equity, FX and credit) for the Emerging
Markets and Equity Derivatives Groups of Bankers
Trust London. After the acquisition of Bankers
Trust by Deutsche Bank (June 1999), he worked in
the Structured Credit Derivatives Group at
Deutsche Bank London. Dr. Arhodidis completed
the Ph.D. in Business Economics program (a
combination of the Ph.D. and the MBA programs)
at Harvard University/Business School on a full
fellowship. His dissertation focused on
industrial organization and strategic alliances
and their financial effects on small partners.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from
Hamilton College (ÖÂĘ, Summa Cum Laude) where he
concentrated on Economics and Mathematics and
received honors in both fields. He also spent a
year as a visiting student at the London School
of Economics.
Course taught by Dr. Arhodidis: Accounting &
Finance (MBIT). |
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 Mr.Yiannis
Vithynos MSc, PMP® (yvithynos@criticalpath.gr,
fix: +30 210 654 1727, mob: +30 697 7989403,
Critical Path Consulting & Training Ltd., Sxoleiou
30C, 153 42 A. Paraskevi, Athens, Greece)
Yiannis Vithynos has extended experience in the
management of complex, high-end projects of Information and
Telecommunication Systems in Greece and the Balkans.
As part of Nokia Networks SA, and making use of
global teams with both internal and subcontracted
resources, he has managed projects including:
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Implementation of 2G, 2.5G and 3G Mobile
Telephony networks.
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Cross-country online connection of telecommunication
systems between Greece and Albania.
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Support of the mobile telecommunications
infrastructure of the Athens Olympics 2004.
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Installations and upgrades of
network operations supporting IT systems
(network management, workflow management,
provisioning systems etc).
Additionally, he has experience in the project
management of European Research Programs.
He has (January 2005) the
Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Certification from the Project Management
Institute (PMI®), the biggest global Project
Management professional organization. He also
has (June 2006) the Advanced Project Management
Certification (APMC), as part of a Nokia
Networks global pilot team on Project
Management.
During the last 18 months, Yiannis has delivered
more than 400 hours of Project Management
training, both in introductory and advanced
levels.
Since October 2006, he is the Founder and
Managing Director of “Critical Path Consulting &
Training Ltd”, a company focusing solely on
Project & Program Management services, including
training, consulting and outsourcing.
Yiannis has graduated as Electrical Engineer
from the National Technical University of Athens
in 1991, and he has an MSc (distinction) in
“Telecommunication & Information Systems” from
the Essex University (1992).
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 Dr
Jiorgis Kritsotakis is an Assistant
Professor of Strategy and Organization at the
Hellenic American University. Jiorgis has
previously lectured full time on strategy and
organizational change at the Management School
of the University of St Andrews, UK. As a
visiting faculty, Jiorgis has also taught at the
University of Dundee and at the Athens
University of Economics and Business. Jiorgis’
research focuses on the process of strategy
formation in dynamic industries and the
management of innovation and organizational
transformation.
Before joining the Hellenic American University,
Jiorgis Kritsotakis was a senior strategy
consultant at the London Office of a global
consultancy firm, specializing in the converging
Communications and High Tech industries. Jiorgis’
work was focused on enabling client
organizations to achieve higher performance
through the design and management of
enterprise-wide organizational change.
Jiorgis holds a BSc (Marketing Management), an
MBA (Innovation and New Venture Management) and
a Ph.D. in Strategic Management.
Jiorgis Kritsotakis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Organization
Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece
12 Kaplanon Street, 10680, Athens
tel. +(30) 210 3680950
fax. +(30) 210 3633174
e-mail. jkritsotakis@hau.gr
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Mr. Aristidis Gikass
is a Teaching Fellow in Financial and Managerial
Accounting at AIT.
He holds an MBA in Business Administration from
McGill University with a concentration in
Finance and Accounting. He brings several years
of intensive experience in top management
positions such as Finance Manager in Johnson &
Johnson Hellas AEBE for seven years and General
Manager in the Group of Olympiacos Club
companies for five years reporting to the
President Mr. S. Kokkalis before he started his
own accounting, tax and consulting office in
2005.
During his professional managerial career he
used to teach as a part-time activity. Since
1990 he has taught in colleges in Greece and
Universities abroad at the undergraduate and MBA
levels.
Course taught by Mr. Gikas: Financial
Accounting (MBIT) |
Dr. Xenia Ziouvelou
is a Teaching and Research Fellow at AIT. She
holds a Ph.D in Economics focusing on Industrial
Organisation and strategic pricing in electronic
markets and a Masters Degree in International
Business from the Department of Economics of the
Lancaster University (UK). She has also been
awarded with a B.Sc in Business Administration,
with specialization in Quality and Operations
Management, from the American College of Greece.
For more than three years she held the position
of a Research Officer at the Athens University
of Economics and Business in the research center
ELTRUN, the e-Business Center of the Department
of Management Science and Technology. Her
research focused on business modeling in the
context of Electronic Commerce. Xenia worked as
a Project Manager in the IST Project E-FACTORS,
which aimed at determining factors of broad and
sustainable adoption of new e-business models.
Since September 2005, she is a member of the
IRIS Research Group of the Information Systems
Technology Laboratory (ISTLab) of the Athens
University of Economics and Business; while she
acts as an external expert for H+S Technology
Solutions S.A. Her principal research interests
are in Industrial Organisation analysis and
Electronic Commerce as well as in Strategic
Pricing, Business Modeling and Business Strategy
in Technology Mediated Markets.
Course taught by Dr. Ziouvelou: E-business (MBIT). |
 Dr.
Nikos B. Pronios (npro@intracomdefense.com)
is a Teaching & Research Fellow in Strategic
Management at AIT. Dr. Pronios obtained his Ph.
D. in Electrical Engineering from University of
Southern California (USC) and M. Sc. in
Electrical Engineering also from USC in 1988 and
1984, respectively, after earning the
Professional Diploma in Electrical Engineering
from University of Patras, Greece in 1982. He
was a research and teaching assistant at USC
until 1988. From 1988 to 1992 he was a Member of
the technical staff at Bell Communications
Research (Bellcore) New Jersey, USA, where he
was responsible for exploring new services
concepts for visual applications and broadband
communications services.
In 1992, he joined INTRACOM’s Development
Programmes Dept., where he worked on a variety
of projects ranging from networking
architectures to Broadband Access Systems. He
held the positions of Department Manager of the
Development Programmes Department from January
1999 until Dec. 2005, and Manager of the
Emerging Technologies Department of INTRACOM S.A.
Telecom Solutions from January 2006 until
November 2006. On November 2006, he joined
INTRACOM Defense Electronics S.A. responsible
for the Business Development for Network Centric
Solutions.
He has participated in numerous RACE, ACTS and
IST research projects, while being Technical and
Project Manager in several of them (BC3, ADAMAS
etc). His more recent technology areas of focus
are Broadband Wireless Networking and Business
Processes-Interoperability.
At AIT he teaches the Strategic Management
course. |
 Mrs.
Angela Simeonidis
is a Teaching Fellow at AIT. She holds a MBA
from City University Business School (London,
UK) and a BSc. in Business Administration from
the American College of Greece.
She started her career in 1991 at Sealand
Services Inc (innovators of containerized
shipping) in Pireaus, Greece, heading the
customer service department for importation,
transhipment. She then went on to work for
leading multinationals such as: Citibank (in
London, UK as well as in Athens, Greece); FIAT
Auto Hellas in Product Management and Brand
Management positions. Throughout her career, she
has been heavily involved in the New Product
Development Process. More specifically, she was
responsible for the development of the Citibank
Visa Member-get-Member programme at Citibank,
London UK; the development of an International
call centre to support Citibank customers
globally; represented Citibank Greece in the
development of the European Customer
Satisfaction Survey in the mid 1990s. She
spearheaded the development of the FIAT, Lancia
and Alfa Romeo, “Autocare” programmes,
“Assistance” programmes as well as the “Top
programme” and “Auto-expert” used car retail
services programme.
Since the 2000, she has headed University of
Huddersfield (UK) undergraduate and
post-graduate Business programmes in Athens and
served as chair of a number validations
processes, including that of the British
Accreditation Council.
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Mrs. Angelika Tzemou, is a Teaching Fellow
in Human Resource Management and Organisational
Behaviour at AIT. She holds an MSc in Human
Resource Management (CIPD accredited) from
Surrey University School of Management and a BA
in Sociology from the American College of
Greece. Her 10 year extensive experience in HR
focuses on international search & selection
projects, HR development and employer branding
strategy. Ms Tzemou has held HR Consulting roles
in the UK and in-house HR management positions
in Greece, in the Banking sector and in the
Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee,
where she had the HR management responsibility
of a team of 2,500 people. She is currently
working as a freelancer on selected HR
consulting projects in Athens and London.
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 Mrs.
Stella Voulgaraki,
is a Chartered Psychologist in Greece and the
UK. She has acquired her first degree in
Psychology from a Aristotle’s University of
Thessaloniki and her MSc in Organisational
Psychology/Behaviour from City University, UK (recognised
by the British Psychological Society). Ms
Voulgaraki is qualified to use occupational and
personality tests both in Greece and the U.K..
She has worked as a Recruitment Consultant for
Manpower Athens and Boyden and as a Human
Resources Manager for KANTOR Management
Consultants. She has over 10 years of experience
in Human Resources Management and Consulting and
has delivered several trainings. For the past 3
years, she works for INTRACOM IT Services as the
Human Resources and Administration Manager. |
 Mr.
George N. Hazapis, MBA/MA, is a Teaching
Fellow in Strategic Management at AIT. He holds
an MBA in Business Administration from Marymount
University with a focus in Finance and Merger
and Acquisitions and an MA in International
Affairs with a concentration in International
Political Economy from the American University
where he studied with a School of International
Service Graduate Fellowship. He brings several
years of intensive experience in academia,
corporate training and the consulting industry.
Working on business planning, strategic
management, the evaluation, analysis and
development of business best practices in
Strategic Management & Marketing, Six Sigma,
Venture Capital, General Corporate, or
Internet/Technology & Innovation.
Areas of interest include strategic management,
organizational behavior, leadership, e-commerce
entrepreneurship, e-marketing, change management
and executive coaching. Mr. Hazapis has taught
Economics, Money and Banking, Marketing,
Management, Management of Information Systems,
Advertising and Promotion, Media & Business
Communications, Business Policy & Strategy. He
has been affiliated with a number of
institutions, conducted corporate training and
is active as a business consultant.
Areas of technical interest include:
Corporate/venture capital/securities/corporate
transactional/M&A/corporate & executive training
& coaching/publishing.Private-Public-Initiatives
(PPI) Organizational Change Management
Corporate & Executive Training & Coaching
Strategic Management & Marketing Corporate
Reorganizations
Courses taught by Mr. Hazapis: Accounting &
Finance (MBIT), Strategic Management (MBIT),
Strategic Marketing of Services & Products (MBIT)
Managerial Economics (MSIN). |
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