Alexandros Andreoulis has a BSc in Operations Research & Marketing and an MSc in Finance & Banking from the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), as well as an MSc in Logistics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. Additionally, he holds professional certifications in Project Management Professional (PMI), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (IASSC) and Certified Supply Chain Professional (APICS). Alexandros has more than 15 years of professional experience in supply chain & logistics, working for various multinational corporations, and is currently the Logistics Manager for ZTE Telecommunications Corp. for Greece, Cyprus & Israel. He is an adjunct faculty member in the MBA program at Hellenic American University.

Stanley Ansel graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (USLA) with a Bachelor’s degree in Pre-Law. Before graduating from UCLA he served in the U.S. Navy for three years, living in Japan for two years and on an ammunition ship in Vietnamese waters for one year. After completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Ansel went on to obtain a Master's degree in Management from the University of Arkansas. Besides living and teaching in the U.S., he has lived and taught in Greece, Albania, Germany and India. In addition to many years of teaching experience in accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics, and statistics, Stanley also has many years of practical experience in the areas of accounting, finance and marketing. Mr. Ansel is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the BSBA program.

Fanis Aritzis is a senior executive with a 17-year corporate career in marketing, sales, HR, and IT. He was a key figure in the Greek market launch of IQOS for PAPASTRATOS-PMI in 2016. In 2022 he also led the rebranding of United Group Southeast Europe's telecom identity from WIND to NOVA in 2022. Fanis has consulted for organizations like Coca-Cola, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the National Theatre & Inditex S.A. He holds an MBA from European University Cyprus, and graduate degrees from the University of Piraeus and Athens University of Economics and Business. He is now completing a doctoral degree in artificial intelligence and consumer psychology at European International University, Paris. Fanis is a guest motivational speaker, and founder of Catharsis New You an NLP (neurolinguistic programming) start up. From 2022, he has hosted the award-winning podcast, Theater Voice Greece, on which he has held over 150 interviews with key figures in arts, literature, and business. He contributes to scientific and business journals and is the author of UNIQY-The different Unique Shape. He is an adjunct faculty member in the MSSM program at Hellenic American University.

Konstantinos holds a BA in Economics from Staffordshire University, an MSc in International Marketing Management from the University of East London, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education from the University of Coventry. He is currently doing his PhD at Hellenic American University. He has served as the Assistant Dean of London College of International Business Studies and as Senior Manager at the London Centre of Executive Excellence. He has extensive teaching, research, and leadership experience from his positions at Coventry University London, University of London, University of East London, University of Bedfordshire, London College of International Business Studies, EU Business School, and Open University. Konstantinos has led and participated in McGraw Hill and Emerald Publications book series and is a reviewer for the Springer Nature Journal of Knowledge Economy and Springer Nature Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a Fellow of CMI, recognized Chartered Manager and Senior Fellow of HEA. He currently teaches in the Business program at Hellenic American University.

Mr. George Bonikos holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Baruch College (CUNY, NY), and a master’s degree in Transportation Management from SUNY Maritime College, NY. He is CISA Certified, a ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer, and CIA Candidate. Mr. Bonikos has presented regularly at Digital Ship and IT conferences both in Europe and the US. Currently working as an Independent consultant and as director of ICSI Hellas SA, he has served as an internal and external auditor, and has held various IT managerial positions involving planning and implementing technology solutions that meet business requirements with diverse experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. His expertise in the field of IT includes the majority of OS and platforms, maritime software ERPs, email, systems, satellite communications, hardware solutions, cyber security, data analytics, and business intelligence. Mr. Bonikos also has extensive experience with Sarbanes-Oxley IT compliance and audits as well as in-depth knowledge of privacy laws including GDPR (legal, IT systems). He is currently adjunct faculty member teaching in the BSI program in Hellenic American University.

With more than 16 years of professional experience in the IT field, Spyridon Christopoulos holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The American College of Greece and a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Hellenic American University. He is the Information Technology Manager of the Hellenic American University and the Senior Systems and Network Administrator of the Hellenic American Union. Mr. Christopoulos is a Cisco Certified Instructor Trainer and a Cisco Networking Academy instructor for a variety of courses (CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Security, etc.). He holds several Cisco Certifications (CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Security, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNP), and has been awarded by Cisco with the Instructor Excellence recognition (worldwide). As of 2020, Spyridon is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the BSIT and MSIT programs.

Raul Consunji received his MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia University in the City of York and has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines. He has taught Finance and Accounting for numerous Boston area universities including Northeastern University and Salem State University. Prior to entering a teaching career, Mr. Consunji spent several years working in Financial Planning and Analysis for several Fortune 500 firms, mostly in the retail and publishing fields. A large portion of this time was spent in strategic planning, in executing mergers and acquisitions transactions, and in new business development. He also has worked in France and the Philippines and speaks, reads and writes German and French. He holds an active CPA license in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also runs his own consulting practice specializing in financial, accounting and tax issues. Mr. Consunji’s research interests include personal financial planning and investing, stock valuation, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. At Hellenic American University, he is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the MBA program.

Demos Doumenis holds a B.Eng. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and an M.Sc. in Communications and Signal Processing, both from Imperial College, London. He is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Quantimetrica Ltd, UK, which specializes in embedded voice processing solutions to control devices remotely by voice commands. He has a career of more than 20 years in the electronics and telecommunications industry as a software/hardware engineer and manager and has been involved in several EU-funded R&D projects. Mr. Doumenis is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the BSIT and BSE programs.

Eric Drouart, a French native, received a Business Administration Diploma from the Institut de Préparation à l’Administration et à la Gestion (IPAG) in Paris, France. He then came to the US and attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, where he received two degrees, a BBA with a concentration in Marketing Management and an MSBA. He transitioned to academia in 2000, and has been teaching at Rivier University in Nashua, NH (USA), Southern Vermont College in Bennington, VT (USA) and Assumption University in Worcester, MA (USA). He has also taught seminar courses at IPAG – Nice Campus (France).

Eric has extensive international marketing and general management experience, including 15 years with New York-based Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has spent four years in Tokyo, Japan working in New Products and Business Development for a J.V. in OTC medicines, one-year short-term assignment in Italy for the transition management of a recently acquired Italian skin care company, and five years (1994-1999) in France after the acquisition of a French family medicines company. He also has prior international marketing research experience with General Foods Corporation (White Plains, NY), and Burke International Research Corporation (Cincinnati, OH, and New York City). Mr. Drouart is an adjunct faculty member teaching in the business program at Hellenic American University.

Nampil El Gazzar has a BSc. in Law from Alexandria University, Egypt, an MBA from Strathclyde Business School in the UK, MSc. In Sports Management from IE Business School in Spain and a PhD in Global Leadership Development from Dublin City University in the Republic of Ireland. He has 32 years of working experience including 25 years in managerial positions in Greece, Egypt, Republic of Ireland and the UK within banking, manufacturing, education, and healthcare recruitment sectors. He has presented at the European Academy of Management and other conferences. He is currently an adjunct faculty member for the MBA program at the Hellenic American College.

George Ellinidis is Vice-President and General Counsel, Canada & International, for Smucker Foods of Canada Corp., where he has been employed since 2009. His work there includes contract law, advertising and marketing law, litigation, cross-border issues, and competition and trademark law.

Mr. Ellinidis was called to the Ontario Bar in 1997 and received his B.A. from the University of Toronto (University College), his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. He began his career as an associate at Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Toronto where he specialized in corporate/commercial law before moving on to become General Counsel for Toyota/Lexus Financial Services.

He has taught Business Law at Toronto Metropolitan University since 2004 and more recently at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, and Osgoode Hall Law School. Mr. Ellinidis is an adjunct instructor at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the BSBA program.

Ioannis Filippopoulos is an adjunct Professor in the Information Technology and Engineering Program at Hellenic American University. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the Hellenic Army Academy, he earned an MSc in Information Technologies from the Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MBA from Middlesex University of London. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer and Networks Engineering from the University of Thessaly. Before joining Hellenic American University, Dr. Filippopoulos was ICT Manager for the Hellenic Defense High Military Support Services and later Chief Information Officer for a major shipping group. He has served as adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Thessaly and lecturer at the Army’s General Staff’s Institute of Information Technology.

Nikolaos Fournogerakis holds a BSc in Statistics from the University of Piraeus and a MSc in Data Science from the American College of Greece. With over 7 years of experience in the casino and gaming industry, he uses Data Analysis, Statistics and Machine Learning techniques to analyze games performance and identify patterns in players behavior in order to enhance business decision making. He also works as a Data Science Instructor at the Big Blue Academy and as a Data Scientist in the sports analytics industry, at Statathlon. At Hellenic American University he is an adjunct faculty member in the business department.

Mr. Anastasios Galanakis has over two decades of experience in B2B sales, 18 years of which in the marine manufacturing industry. He is currently CCO and vice president of a multinational marine equipment manufacturing firm with a commercial presence in 130 countries. He was won sales excellence awards for B2B online ordering platform & CRM and Made in Greece Awards for Branded Product and Export Excellence. He holds a Doctorate in Export Sales Management (DBA) from Edinburgh Business School and maintains regular contact with the academic community through his publications and guest lectures in sales education at business schools. He is a member of the Global Science Sales Institute, the Greek Sales Institute, and the Academic Maritime Sector BCA Advisory Board. Dr. Galanakis is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the M.S. in Sales Management program.

Ioannis K. Gatzoflias earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Anglia Ruskin University in Essex, an M.Sc. in Banking and Finance from Stirling University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stirling University. The area of his research was financial innovation in the Banking sector in the UK and US. He worked as Head of Banking Trends in the Departments of Strategic Planning and Strategic Analysis of Egnatia Bank (2001-2005) and Deputy Chief Financial Officer in Emporiki Credicom Bank (2009-2010). He was an ad hoc consultant for Clayton Euro Risk for projects in the banking sector (2013-2018). Since 2010, he serves as Chief Financial Officer of Electronet S.A and on July 2022 promoted to Deputy CEO. Since 2002, he is teaching in distance-learning graduate programs of British universities in the fields of Economics, Finance, Accounting and Banking. He is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the BSBA and MBA programs of HAU since 2007 and form 2021 is an Associate Professor.

Giannis Georgiou is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and consultant focusing on subjects of story structure, theory, and technique. He studied Architecture in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Directing Fiction in the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. He worked as a filmmaker, screenwriter, and story consultant for more than a decade, before turning to games and interactive storytelling. He is passionate about visual narrative and interactivity and his experience includes teaching and coaching writers on above subjects, as well as writing screenplays, articles, personal essays, games, and interactive fiction.

He is currently a Content Creator in the game writing app Arcweave. He is an adjunct instructor at Hellenic American University and teaches in the BSI program.

Damianos Giannakis holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He has extensive business experience including 29 years of work in marketing and sales managerial positions. At Hellenic American University, he has been a full-time faculty member since 2004, having served in various administrative positions in parallel to his academic workload. He is a full-time faculty member and teaches in the BSBA and MBA programs.

His research interests include Relationship Marketing, Human Resource Management, Business Partnering, Social Marketing.

Ilias Gravalos received a Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras in 2008, as well as his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He has participated in a multitude of EU-funded research projects focusing on computer and system networks (Passive Optical Networks - PON, Internet of Things – IoT) and has contributed to several publications in refereed international journals and conferences. Dr. Gravalos has held faculty positions at the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece and at the Vocational Training Institute of Patras as Adjunct Assistant Professor. During his career he worked as a software engineer at the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus", Patras and as a system architect at NOKIA Hellas, Athens. Dr. Gravalos is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the MSI program.

Jeffrey Hansel holds a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a minor in Information Technology from Bentley University in Waltham, MA. He has over twenty years of professional experience in credit and banking, managing highly complex middle-market relationships with lending sizes up to $75 million. He is currently vice president of a community bank where he manages all aspects of the Small Business Lending Group, and has helped the bank win several U.S. Small Business Administration awards. Jeffrey has taught courses in operations research, sales management, financial statement & cash flow analysis, business legal structures, small business lending basics, and start-up lending. He is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the MBA program.

Panagiotis Kalozoumis holds a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), specializing in theoretical physics and applied mathematics. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher for international and Greek research centers and Universities, including the Center of Optical and Quantum Technologies - Hamburg University (Germany), the Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (France), the Physics Department of the NKUA (Greece) and the Department of Material Science at the University of Patras (Greece). He is author/co-author of 22 publications in high-impact factor, peer-reviewed journals, while his work has been presented in more than 15 international conferences and workshops. At the Hellenic American University, Dr. Kalozoumis serves as the Director of Information Technology and Engineering Programs.

Dimitrios Katsiklis is a highly accomplished professional with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, finance, and consulting. He has worked on over 44 projects across various industries and countries, with a focus on financial planning, business development, debt financing, and shipping. Along with his professional pursuits, Dimitrios has a strong background in Greek Orthodox Christian traditions, having served as a chanter in various churches and monasteries in Greece, Mt. Athos, and the USA. With his talent for identifying opportunities and building relationships, Dimitrios has secured significant amounts of capital funding for various companies and projects. He has raised funds for a Greek and British shipping company and secured financing for pulp paper processing companies and the largest paper and tissue factory in Greece/Balkans. Additionally, he has played a key role in major deals, including the M&A of the largest stem cell cryobank in Greece and the 4G network structure in Bulgaria, and an eco-friendly dry bulk shipping company for which he secured more than $100M. Dimitrios is proficient in multiple languages, including Ancient Greek, and has technical expertise in MS Office Suite and Google Suite. He has an MBA from Hellenic American University and a BSc in Pastoral Studies and Theology from the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens. Dimitrios is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the business program.