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.

Aggeliki Plouma has been working as an executive coach in Greece and abroad, and as an academic teacher for over than 30 years. She has held numerous executive positions in private companies and public organizations in HR, Internal Audit, and Head of Studies since 1990. Her mission is to support leaders and students in discovering and utilizing skills and talents towards a meaningful life. Her Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) is from the Athens University of Economics. She is also certified by the Gestalt Institution of San Francisco as a trainer and consultant. She specializes in HR and Crisis Management teaching in business and academic settings. She is a member of the European Association of Experiential Educators and of the Harvard Business Council Advisory Board. She is an adjunct faculty member in the MBA program at Hellenic American University.

Grigorios Maloukos is a graduate of Deree College, Athens, Greece (BSC in Business Administration), as well as the University of Exeter, UK (MBA in General Management). Mr. Maloukos, possesses extensive experience in teaching Business Administration subjects, after having worked in several private higher education institutions in Greece, that are affiliated to, or are accredited by UK and US-based universities and accreditation bodies. The range of taught subjects includes Management and Organizational Behavior, Business strategy and Marketing Management, among others. Additional areas of specific academic interest include the use of ESP and Business English in International Business Operations, formal and informal group dynamics within an organization, as well as the area of talent retention, knowledge capital acquisition and leadership pipeline management within an organization. Finally, he has conducted extensive research in Skyscrapers and Tall Buildings as a tool for Urban and Real Estate Development worldwide, with numerous contributions in the field over the years. Mr. Maloukos is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the business program.

George Papadimitrakopoulos is a Research Associate at ELIAMEP and has been Advisor and Liaison for the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Sweden, to the Greek National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) since 2014. Mr Papadimitrakopoulos advises the Rapporteur on issues pertaining to policy, practice, law, partnerships, victimology, and communications. George was selected by the Director of Europol to become a Member of the Europol Platform for Experts (EPE), an invitation-only secure collaboration web platform for experts in a variety of Law Enforcement areas, earning further access to three sub-platforms, namely, Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA), Financial Crime Information Centre (FCIC), and THB. He was appointed in 2011 as Assistant Editor and Project Manager of the first Lexicon of Criminology and Criminal Justice, to be published in Greece (2018) and was Co-Editor of the international Liber Amicorum in honour of Professor N. E. Courakis (2017). George started his career at Nestlé in 1993 and for the past two decades has held executive positions in finance and professional services firms, in the United States, Greece, Serbia & Montenegro, and France. Based in Athens, Greece, George is an alumnus of Athens College, and has attended, conducted research, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses at, inter alia, New York University and the University of Cambridge. He is currently a professor of practice in multiple programs such as psychology and business.