Welcome to the Manager of The Year 2024 Awards!
The Manager of the Year 2024 is back to reward the professionals who have the skills and the gift to inspire, motivate, uplift, bring results with a human face and show the way to the Managers of the future.

Let’s recognize best practices from Managers active in all sectors of the Greek economy.
Let’s get inspired from the best!

Let’s celebrate and together shape the next day of Management in Greece.
We embrace Excellence, Meritocracy, Leadership!

Manager of the Year 2023 Award Ceremony
Highlights and Key Moments Video

Manager of the Year 2024 Award
Judges

Chair of Judging Committee

Minas Tanes

Minas Tanes


Chairman of BoD, Food Plus SA
Vice-Chairman of Board, Lavipharm SA
Member of Board, Elbisco AEBE
General Secretary of Board, SEVT

Vice-Chairs of the Judging Committee

Dimitris Pisimisis

Dimitris Pisimisis


Senior Advisor SOCIETE BIC
Senior Board Advisor BIC VIOLEX

Dimitris Vidakis

Dimitris Vidakis


Operating Partner
Elikonos Capital AIFM

Judging Committee

Zannina Anagnostopoulou

Zannina Anagnostopoulou


Senior Partner, Advisory Services Leader, PM-Partners LLP,
President of BOD at PMI-GREECE
BSc Mathematics, MBA, PMP®

Dr Spyros Arsenis

Dr Spyros Arsenis


Head of the Business Innovation Development Unit
National Bank of Greece,
Director, ΝΒG Business Seeds program

Foteini Bampanara

Foteini Bampanara


Country Head of Communications & Patient Advocacy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Novartis

Rena Bardani

Rena Bardani


Chair of the Board of the Hellenic Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (EL.IN.Y.A.E.)

Triantafyllos Bergeles

Triantafyllos Bergeles


Commercial Director of Up Hellas

Lampros Bisalas

Lampros Bisalas


Sunlight Group CEO and Executive BoD member
Sunlight Group Energy Storage Systems

Eleni Bitsiou

Eleni Bitsiou


Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer SYNERGY SA,
Vice President Administration EEL

Anny Chatzikonstantinou

Anny Chatzikonstantinou


Managing Partner
Greece. Cyprus and Malta
Boyden

Alexandros Chatzopoulos

Alexandros Chatzopoulos


Chief of Strategy and External Affairs
Deep Capital Group

Katerina Chatzopoulou

Katerina Chatzopoulou


Communications Manager – Media Relations & Content
PAPASTRATOS – an affiliate of Philip Morris International

Argiris Economou

Argiris Economou


Γενικός Διευθυντής Νομικών Υπηρεσιών και Εταιρικής Διακυβέρνησης
ΔΕΗ ΑΕ

Manolis Fafalios

Manolis Fafalios


Finance Director CFO Operations
Terna Energy and HERON Energy

Lyda Fourlis

Lyda Fourlis


Sustainable Developments and
CSR Director
Fourlis Group

Evi Hatzioannou

Evi Hatzioannou


Chief Human Resources Officer
National Bank of Greece

John Iliadis

John Iliadis


IT Infrastructure Manager, TEIRESIAS, 
President of BoD,
(ISC)2  Hellenic Chapter

Anna V. Kamaridi

Anna V. Kamaridi


Entrepreneur

Maria Kolokytha

Maria Kolokytha


HR Manager INTERSPORT Greece & Cyprus, FOURLIS Group of Companies, VP at the BoD of the Greek People Management Association (GPMA)

Penny Kontogeorgou

Penny Kontogeorgou


e-Business & ICT Law Expert,
Partner Zoulovits Kontogeorgou
Law Firm

Agamemnon (Memos) Kotrozos

Agamemnon (Memos) Kotrozos


Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Eurobank Group Asset Management

Sophia Kounenaki-Efraimoglou

Sophia Kounenaki-Efraimoglou


President at ACCI, President at National Chamber Network of Greek Women Entrepreneurs, Head of “Hellenic Cosmos” Cultural Centre

Angelina Koutsomitopoulou

Angelina Koutsomitopoulou


Human Resources Director, Balkans
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

George Mathios

George Mathios


Vice President of the BoD and Managing Director, ESA Security Solutions

Nikos Matthaios

Nikos Matthaios


Marketing Manager Retail Banking, Group Product Marketing and Communications Division, National Bank of Greece

Michel Montbertrand

Michel Montbertrand


Chairman of the Association of Compliance Officers in Greece
Head of Compliance, AML Officer & Deputy DPO, Groupama Asfalistiki

Panagiotis Morfis

Panagiotis Morfis


Managing Partner
Dynargie Hellas

Konstantinos Oikonomou

Konstantinos Oikonomou


CEO, Marine Tours Group

Marina Papatsoni

Marina Papatsoni


Director General, Business
Development and Corporate Affairs,
Board Member TEMES S.A.

Efharis Perpinia

Efharis Perpinia


Chief Human Resources Officer
Vice President, Hellenic Institute of Human Resources Management

Agis Pistiolas

Agis Pistiolas


MoB, Agrino - EV.GE Pistiolas S.A,
Co-founder and President,
Ella-dika mas

Katerina Raptaki

Katerina Raptaki


Digital Transformation, Cyber Security
and e-Governance specialist,
Navios Group of Companies

Jonathan Rose

Jonathan Rose


Partner and Co-Founder Guruservices.Biz
Commercial Director - Connecticore

Angelos Roupas Pantaleon

Angelos Roupas Pantaleon


Founder Second Wind & Partners

Nikolaos Serras

Nikolaos Serras


President & Managing Director
Dirfys Water Bottling Company SA

Kiki Silvestriadou

Kiki Silvestriadou


CEO Nova Media

Popy Skagia

Popy Skagia


Managing Director, Th. C. SKAGIAS S.A.

Alexandros Thanos

Alexandros Thanos


Executive Director of SETE - Greek Tourism Confederetion

Deppie Tzimea

Deppie Tzimea


Corporate Communications & Sustainability Executive Director OTE Group

Angela Varela

Angela Varela


Head, Directorate of National & International Services
f. Gen. Manager GNTO Promotion
Greek National Tourism Organisation

Konstantinos Vlachos

Konstantinos Vlachos


Commercial Manager Mapei Hellas A.E.B.E.

Maria Yiassa

Maria Yiassa


Co-founder
Seaorama IKE

Alexandros Ziomas

Alexandros Ziomas


Director, IT&T Business Unit
Athens International Airport

The Manager of the Year Award

Niki Lymperaki

Niki Lymperaki

AWARD CEREMONY PRESENTER

Niki Lymperaki is a journalist in Athens, Greece. For the past twenty years she has worked on international news and current affairs for major Greek media as an anchor, reporter and radio producer. In 2020 she was awarded with the highest distinction for journalists in Greece, the Botsis Foundation Award. She holds a degree in Law from the University of Athens and she speaks English, Italian, Spanish and German.

Key Dates

Past Winners

Lampros Bisalas

The Manager of the Year 2023

Lampros Bisalas is the CEO of Sunlight Group Energy Storage Systems, a member of the Olympia investment group and global technology company specializing in innovative industrial mobility batteries for the intralogistics sector and Energy Storage Systems for renewables. Mr Bisalas also serves as Executive Member of the Sunlight Group Board of Directors and is a BoD member of EUROBAT, the Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers.
He has risen through the ranks, carrying extensive experience of Sunlight Group’s business operations worldwide. Since 2008, he has served in various financial, business transformation, sales and business development divisions – both in the parent company and its subsidiaries, in seven different countries. Prior to being appointed CEO, he was Sunlight’s CCO, leading critical areas and contributing to the company’s growth in exports – from 11 to over 110 countries in four years. In addition, he spearheaded the Innovation Acceleration Program, the biggest innovation project that Sunlight has ever initiated, to follow –and subsequently lead– the latest trends around lithium batteries. In that capacity, he played a key role and significantly contributed to the accelerated development of innovative products in lithium-ion battery technologies, which promptly rendered the company from a late entrant to a market leader in lithium-ion batteries with a 40% market share in Europe and the Americas.
Lampros Bisalas holds a BSc in Business Administration from Panteion University (Greece) and an Executive MBA from the IMD Business School (Switzerland). He has also graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School (USA), and has attended the Pricing Program of the Wharton Business School (USA), as well as Strategy, Innovation, Leadership, Artificial Intelligence and ESG-focused courses at IMD Business School. Lastly, Mr. Bisalas has graduated from the Swiss Armed Forces Training Command for managing crises and crisis-related communications.

View All the Managers of the Year 2023 Watch Award Ceremony Replay

Award Ceremony Replay

Testimonials


Κώστας Σκρέκας, πρ. Υπουργός Ανάπτυξης
«Ηγέτης σημαίνει να μπορείς να εμπνεύσεις τους άλλους, την ομάδα σου και τους υπόλοιπους να ακολουθήσουν το όραμά σου και να το υλοποιήσουν.»

Δείτε το βίντεο: https://youtu.be/CZr2mIfZsBU?si=1P_LqUfxV-RznNiY&t=131 

 

Αχιλλέας Τσάλτας, Πρόεδρος, Democracy and Culture Foundation,

«Υπάρχουν, θα σας το πω στα αγγλικά αν μπορώ, τα 3 Hs, the 3 Hs of Management: Humanity, Humility and Humor. Νομίζω ότι αν ένας διευθυντής έχει αυτά τα τρία χαρακτηριστικά, δηλαδή Ανθρωπισμό, Ταπεινοφροσύνη και την αίσθηση του Χιούμορ, μπορεί να αντιμετωπίσει πάρα πολλές καταστάσεις.»

Δείτε το βίντεο: https://youtu.be/CZr2mIfZsBU?si=jUJvGBosSFOliSpa&t=152 

Άγγελος Ρούπας Πανταλέων, Κριτής Manager of the Year, Ιδρυτής, Second Wind & Partners
«Είναι διάφορα στοιχεία, εγώ θα έλεγα η πραότητα, η αυτογνωσία, και η ομαδική εργασία, η προαγωγή ανθρώπων που πραγματικά βοηθούν, …, αυτά θα έλεγα. Οι πιο απλές αρχές είναι συνήθως αυτές που κάνουν τη διαφορά. Δεν τους δίνουμε σημασία πολλές φορές αλλά πραγματικά αυτές αναδεικνύουν τον σωστό και επιτυχημένο manager.

Δείτε το βίντεο: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZr2mIfZsBU&t=109s 

Χάρης Βαφειάς, Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος, Vafias Group of Companies
«Η αφοσίωση και η τιμιότητα.»

Δείτε το βίντεο: https://youtu.be/CZr2mIfZsBU?si=t-2R8Mq72qIpp7hZ&t=204 

Δημήτρης Παπαπανικητόπουλος, Πρόεδρος Linkage Greece. Συνέντευξη στην Ειρήνη Νικολοπούλου, δημοσιογράφο, παρουσιάστρια της τελετής απονομής των βραβείων Manager of the Year 2022

«Ο θεσμός του Manager of the Year είναι ένας θεσμός που δεν πρέπει να σταματήσει ποτέ γιατί είναι μια γιορτή της επιχειρηματικότητας, της ηγεσίας, του μάνατζμεντ, κερδίζουν οι καλύτεροι, γιορτάζουμε τους καλύτερους. Είναι ένα παράδειγμα για τους νέους μας, αγόρια και κορίτσια, για να μπορούμε να έχουμε ένα φυτώριο ηγεσίας στην Ελλάδα και, γιατί όχι, να γινόμαστε και καλύτεροι άνθρωποι.»

Δείτε το βίντεο της συνέντευξης: https://youtu.be/785dZpBMU8M

Αγγελίνα Μιχαηλίδου, Γενική Διευθύντρια και Partner, Response:

«Ομολογώ ότι ήμουν fan πάντα αυτού του θεσμού και χαίρομαι που συνεχίζει σε τόσο καλά και άξια χέρια και νομίζω, βλέποντας και το πλήθος των νεώτερων ανθρώπων που βραβεύτηκαν, ότι θα έρθει πια ένα καινούργιο επίπεδο πρόκλησης για τους νεώτερους Έλληνες επαγγελματίες να εξελίσσονται ως μάνατζερς … Είμαι πραγματικά πολύ αισιόδοξη για το μέλλον της επιχειρηματικότητας στην Ελλάδα.»

Δείτε το βίντεο της συνέντευξης: https://youtu.be/1QVbfJYariQ