Team Category: Board of Directors

Eleni Bathianaki Member eleni.desmos@gmail.com Eleni Bathianaki has more than 25 years of experience in the financial sector, specialising in investment banking, private equity, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital raising, and corporate strategy. She is a founding member and Managing Partner of Halcyon Equity Partners, a Greek Growth Private Equity Fund with €208 million in assets … Read more

Myrto Anastassopoulos Member myrto.desmos@gmail.com Myrto obtained a BA in sociology at the College of the Holy Cross of H.P.P. During her last year in America, she lived in New York, where she worked in branded stores and the American version of ELLE. She returned to Athens to deal with fashion and open her first store, … Read more

Lara Stafilopati Member lara.desmos@gmail.com Lara has studied Shipping Trade and Transport at the London Metropolitan University. Upon completing her studies, she worked in London for SSY and Breamar shipbrokers.   After returning to Greece in 2001, she started working at the family shipping business, Byzantine Maritime, where she has managerial duties, while she is also … Read more

Effy Stratakis Treasurer effy.desmos@gmail.com Η Έφφη αποφοίτησε από το Amherst College στις Η.Π.Α. και εργάστηκε αρχικά στον τραπεζικό τομέα, στην Deutsche Bank. Στην συνέχεια, απέκτησε το ΜΒΑ της από το London Business School και από το 2010 επέστρεψε στην Ελλάδα όπου εντάχθηκε στην οικογενειακή επιχείρηση. Συνεχίζει να εργάζεται τόσο στα χρηματοοικονομικά όσο και στο Corporate … Read more

Marina Sotiriou Secretary marina.desmos@gmail.com Marina is a dentist. She studied at London’s St. Bartholomew’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, where she got her degree in Dentistry (BDS). She continued her studies in Prosthetic Dentistry at New York University. While in New York, she worked for a year as a teaching fellow dentist … Read more

Lena Papalexopoulou Vice President lena.desmos@gmail.com Lena is an economist and entrepreneur. After earning a B.A. in Economics (Pi Sigma Honor Society) she obtained two graduate degrees, a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and an Executive Management Degree from IMD. She has worked among others, for the European Union, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson … Read more

Alexia Katsaounis President alexia@desmos.org Alexia is a graduate of Middlebury College in the USA. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City to join the New York Knicks NBA Team, in their Community Relations Field. After three years, she decided to pursue an MBA at IESE Business School in Barcelona. Following that, she remained in … Read more