Remuneration and Nominations Committee

Constantine Manos is a seasoned investment banking and financial advisory professional, focussed predominantly on the European technology sector. He started his career in 2005 and lives between London and Athens.

He currently serves as Executive Director of Excelixis Finance, an independent financial advisory boutique focussed on the European technology sector. Prior to Excelixis Finance, Constantine has held senior positions with global institutions such as Macquarie Capital and Credit Suisse. Over the past 20+ years, Constantine has led transactions in Europe (including Greece) with an aggregate value in excess of EUR25 billion.

Throughout his career, Constantine has developed strong leadership skills having led teams on numerous high-profile and complex transactions. He also has extensive analysis and due diligence experience as well as a solid knowledge of finance and capital markets.

Constantine received a bachelor’s degree in business administration with highest distinction from Deree College.

Nikos M. Empeoglou holds a degree in Mechanical-Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and trained in Business Research in Paris with a scholarship from the French Government. He was Curator at the Chair of Industrial Organisation of the School of Mechanical-Electrical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (1963-79), where he taught Business Research from 1972 to 1979. In 1967 he was co-founder of the company ‘METHODOI SA’, the first Management Consulting firm in Greece, serving as CEO for more than 35 years. In 1992 he took a leading role in the creation by the Association of Greek Industrialists and the Hellenic Society of Business Administration of the only, to date, independent Postgraduate School of Business Administration in Greece, ALBA Graduate Business School, where he served as CEO (1992-2006) and Chairman of the Board in 1998-9, 2001-3 and 2006-17. He also served as Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emporiki Bank of Greece SA, after its acquisition by Credit Agricole SA and Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Railways Organisation. He served as member of the Boards of Directors of the following companies: ARISTON Eriourgia Athinon (Athens Wool Processing), the Greek Public Power Corporation, Thymio Papagiannis & Associates Inc., NANOPHOS and P.N. GEROLYMATOS. Since 2012 he has been Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society of Business Administration, and since 2018 he has been Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, of the Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece and since 2019 Honorary Chairman of the Board of ALBA. Since 2003 has been a non -executive member of the Board of Directors of Petros Petropoulos AEBE.

Ariadne Velissaropoulos returned to Greece and joined Petros Petropoulos SA’s board in 2021, after a distinguished career in New York, London and Geneva. She began her career at Young & Rubicam in New York, working first in its Αdvertising division, and then at Burson Marsteller, its Public Relations subsidiary. Following that, she worked for Morgan Stanley in London. She then worked for three asset management firms in London and Geneva, in a senior fundraising capacity. Over the course of her 15 years in asset management she raised more than $4.5 billion from top-tier institutional investors.

Kleopatra Kyriazi PhD, is a lawyer, specializing in Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Financial Markets & Banking Law, M&As, as well as European and Administrative Law. She possesses significant experience as an in-house legal counsel, having worked among others, in Stet Hellas (1998 -2001), Geniki Bank (2001- 2014) and Piraeus Bank (2014-2016), while since 2017 is providing legal services to NBG, mainly in the areas of Corporate Governance and Compliance. She is a graduate of Athens Law School and holds a Master Degree in European law and a  PhD in Public law from the University Rene Descartes,  in Paris.

He is a graduate of the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and obtained his postgraduate MSc degree in Money, Banking and Finance from the University of Birmingham. He started his career in 1993 at Intersec Brokerage Firm, where he became Head of Institutional Sales in 1997, before moving to National Securities, where he steadily rose in seniority, serving as Chief Executive Officer and President between 2004-2007. In 2010 and for four consecutive years he was Chief Executive Officer of Ethniki Insurance SA. He served as Member of the Board of MIG Real Estate (2009-2010), Director of the BoD of ETEBA (Greek Industrial Investment Bank) Romania (2005-2007) and Garanta SA (2011-2013), Vice President of Levant Partners Greece SA (2008-2009) and of Finans Life & Pensions Turkey (2011-2012). In the period 2011-2013 he was President of Ethniki Insurance Co SA, as well as the Ethniki Insurance (Cyprus) Ltd. Since 2008 he has been a Member of the BoD of Petros Petropoulos SA.