Sokratis Sofianopoulos graduated from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Ioannina in 2002, and holds a MSc in Distributed & Multimedia Information Systems from the Dept. of Computer Science of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2003). He received his PhD degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2010, on research he conducted on Language Modeling for Machine Translation Systems and multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms. Since 2005 he has served as research associate and software engineer at The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP / "Athena" R.C.). His research interests include machine translation, machine learning with emphasis on evolutionary computation approaches, data modeling etc. He has worked in several European R&D programs in the field of NLP and machine translation (METIS-II (FP6-IST-003768), PRESEMT (FP7-ICT-248307), QTLaunchPad (FP7-ICT-296347)). He is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the IT program.

Violeta Xanthoulis is a marketing and strategy enthusiast. She holds a BSc in Management and Marketing from the American College of Greece and an MBA from Warwick Business School. She started her career in 2002 as a Marketing Consultant at Grant Thornton Business Consulting. After working with customers in a number of industries, she decided to use her passion for technology in work. She then pursued a career in technology companies in various marketing roles. With experience in B2B and B2C in companies like Microsoft and Xerox she gained valuable experience on how marketing works in this fast-moving environment. Today she is Group Marketing Manager at Printec, a leader in CEE for transaction automation technology solutions, responsible for 16 countries. Violeta is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the Business program.

John Mollica holds an MBA from Bryant University and is currently working toward the completion of his PhD dissertation in Business Administration at Trident University International. Mr. Mollica has twenty years’ experience teaching computer science, economics, and a full spectrum of business-related courses. He looks forward to facilitating a cooperative and global learning environment in the Hellenic American Univerity MBA program.

Konstantinos Mougios is a PhD Holder in the field of Social Psychology at the University of Bolton, England. He holds an Executive MBA in Tourism Management from the Institute Universitaire Kurt Bosch, in Sion, Switzerland. He received his post graduate degree in Higher Education from the University of Derby, England and his Diploma in International Hotel Management from the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute, in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Mougios also holds certificates from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio and from Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece. He is a certified trainer from Starwood, an American Hotel and Leisure Company, as well as from Six Seconds, a non-profit California based organization dedicated to the awareness of Emotional Intelligence worldwide. He presents at conferences regularly and has extensive operational experience in the Hospitality and Tourism sector, where he has been working the last 30 years, across the globe. Furthermore, he held the position of full-time lecturer for four years in Swiss Hotel Management School, in Leysin, Switzerland.

Currently he is the Hotel Manager in one of the Cruise Ships of VIKING. At Hellenic American College Mr. Mougios teaches for the Business Department.