Dimitris G. Filntisis Ekali - Greece | T: +30 6974 999999 +44 7762 151148

C-level experienced executive with accomplishments in the ITS, Telcos, FinTechs, Digital Marketing & BI sectors, with extensive international experience of boosting organizational profitability and performance.

An individual with the business nous and entrepreneurial successes that generate team confidence to deliver corporate objectives. An accomplished, strategic professional with exceptional leadership abilities concerning team initiatives, successful at leveraging career experience to enhance organizational productivity and efficiency by effectively directing and supporting operations, services and solutions.

Specializing in corporate development and strategic planning, understanding the key business challenges, technologies and solutions required to create advanced B2B and B2C solutions and how to help complex organisations implement them to include their suppliers and customers

Active participation on BoD's and Management Teams.

C level
Athens, GR
[email protected]

Skills

Business Development - Sales - Team Direction & Results - Business Ethics - Networking - Business Strategy - Fundraising - Restructuring - Board Development - Corporate Finance - Contract Negotiations -ICT Operating Models - Mergers & Acquisitions - Digital Marketing - Start Ups

Education

2015, MBA: Strategic Management

Winchester Business School - University of Winchester

1993, Bachelor of Science: Business Management

King's College - University of London

1989, High School Diploma

Personal Development | On line courses

Stanford University | Machine Learning

Harvard Extension School | The Computer Science of Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review | Creating Value in a Digital Economy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Three Perspectives on Organizational Change

Work Experience

Chief Executive Officer, Dec 2017 - Present

Ability Management Limited, London - UK

Management Consulting: develop and provide expert solutions to private and public sector clients, tailored to their specific requirements and conditions.

Help organizations to improve their performance through the assimilation of international best practices and support them as they prepare and bring about changes to their processes, organization, human resources and systems.

Recent projects range from the digitization of existing business models, IoT Project Initiatives & Programms (Portfolio Management, Service Offering, IoT HW Strategy), Business Development and Go-To-Market Strategy for e.g. tier one MNO, Big Data/ Analytics company and a Startup.

Partner, Sep 2019 - Present

Agile Actors, Dublin - Ireland & Athens - Greece

Agile Actors delivers top quality software development and data engineering services to its customers by building, coaching and managing cross-functional teams of tech professionals which augment, extend and enhance the customer’s development skills, competencies and capacity.

Conduct market research, develop business strategies, build client relationships, and identify new business opportunities

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Feb 2020 - Present

Excelon, London, UK

Excelon is a Fintech venture to offer advanced digital money services, including FIAT payment accounts with IBAN, Prepaid Mastercard, Crypto Wallet and Exchange.

Responsible for EXCELON's corporate development, covering among other duties, strategic planning, partnerships and investor relationships.

Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer, Jan 2016 - May 2018

Reportbrain Ltd, London - UK

Professional Search Engine that instantly lets you search the news and create reports on anything, using next generation search engine technology.

Senior Vice President Business Development, Mar 2014 to Nov 2015

Globo Plc. Athens Greece

Globo is an international leader and technology innovator. Globo has been listed on London Stock Exchange's AIM market.

Chief Investments Officer, Sep 2003 to Apr 2011

Pisani Plc. London, UK

Pisani PLC is the leading force in the stone and construction industry of both Italy and the USA since the 1800's and in the UK since 1938.

BOD Member, Sep 2003 to Apr 2011

Pisani Plc. London, UK

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Sep 2003 to Apr 2011

Pisani Investments London, UK & Athens, Greece

Executive Director, Jan 2004 to Apr 2011

Pisani Bulmar SA Sofia, Bulgaria

Pisani India Mumbai, India

Corporate Sales Director, Mar 2002 to Aug 2003

OTE Globe SA Athens, Greece

OTEGLOBE, headquartered in Athens Greece, is a provider of international telecommunications wholesale services to high- capacity carriers and multi-site organizations in the broader SE European region. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of OTE, Deutsche Telecom Group.

Corporate Sales Deputy Director, Jan 2000 to Feb 2002

Corporate Sales Manager, Dec 1997 to Dec 1999

COSMOTE SA Deutsche Telecom Athens, Greece

COSMOTE, is the Greek mobile market leader since 2001 and increasing its gap versus competition as of 2007, COSMOTE today has a customer base that reaches 8.6 million. COSMOTE has recorded a series of distinctions, such as its presence in the FT500 Top Companies list of the FINANCIAL TIMES, as well as the Information Technology 100 list of BusinessWeek magazine ranking the top 100 information technology and telecommunications companies in the world.

Corporate Sales Manager, June 1993 to Nov 1997

MOBITEL SA Athens, Greece

Mobitel was one of Greece premier mobile telecommunication solutions provider, for Vodafone.

Reservist Pilot Officer, Sep 1990 to Aug 1992

Hellenic Air Force Tanagra, Greece

Extra-Curricular Activities

Project Owner | Danaos Management Consultants. Dec.17 - Sept.18

Danaos Management Consultants. (DANAOS) is one of the largest pure-play maritime software technology providers in the world, uniquely positioned to lead maritime digital transformation. As a vertical leader in the maritime and oil and gas industries, DANAOS is leveraging on know-how in terms of shipping expertise and software development technologies -for over 30 years- providing flexible and user friendly maritime software solutions and services.

Danaos Oil Spill Detection | DOSD | Real time object detection technologies applied on oil spill recognition on deck or at sea provide faster and more accurate results than existing technologies at the fraction of a cost

Executive Board Member | Sellas Clinical Holdings AG Jan.12 - Dec13

SELLAS Biopharmaceuticals AG, is exclusively developing molecules from pre-clinical to clinical setting, a multi-specialty site conducting Phase I-IV trials in virtually all medical fields including oncology, cardiology, neurology, pulmonary, immunology, endocrinology, hepatology, ophthalmology, obstetrics & gynaecology, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery,orthopedics, schizophrenia, hepatitis, leukemia, MDS, ALS, osteoporosis, etc.

Board Advisory

Reportbrain , Athens Greece & London UK May. 20 to Present

Professional Search Engine that instantly lets you search the news and create reports on anything, using next generation search engine technology.

IMCG Comms Group Athens, Greece Sep. 19 to Present

IMCG consists of highly specialized brands in marketing communication.

Adweb Athens, Greece Feb.19 to Feb. 20

Adweb is an advertising technology agency that connects digital publishers, advertisers & consumers, being uniquely positioned in the premium digital display agency.

Steficon SA. Athens, Greece & London, UK Noveber. 16 to Jan. 20

Steficon is a global web marketing and technology agency that has the ability to manage brands digitally in the evolving internet cosmos.

Languages

Greek (Mother Tongue) - English (Fluent)

Affiliations

Member of British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Member of American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce