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!
Chairman of BoD, Food Plus SA
Vice-Chairman of Board, Lavipharm SA
Member of Board, Elbisco AEBE
General Secretary of Board, SEVT
Senior Advisor SOCIETE BIC
Senior Board Advisor BIC VIOLEX
Operating Partner
Elikonos Capital AIFM
Senior Partner, Advisory Services Leader, PM-Partners LLP,
President of BOD at PMI-GREECE
BSc Mathematics, MBA, PMP®
Head of the Business Innovation Development Unit
National Bank of Greece,
Director, ΝΒG Business Seeds program
Country Head of Communications & Patient Advocacy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Novartis
Chair of the Board of the Hellenic Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (EL.IN.Y.A.E.)
Commercial Director of Up Hellas
Sunlight Group CEO and Executive BoD member
Sunlight Group Energy Storage Systems
Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer SYNERGY SA,
Vice President Administration EEL
Managing Partner
Greece. Cyprus and Malta
Boyden
Chief of Strategy and External Affairs
Deep Capital Group
Communications Manager – Media Relations & Content
PAPASTRATOS – an affiliate of Philip Morris International
Γενικός Διευθυντής Νομικών Υπηρεσιών και Εταιρικής Διακυβέρνησης
ΔΕΗ ΑΕ
Finance Director CFO Operations
Terna Energy and HERON Energy
Sustainable Developments and
CSR Director
Fourlis Group
Chief Human Resources Officer
National Bank of Greece
IT Infrastructure Manager, TEIRESIAS,
President of BoD,
(ISC)2 Hellenic Chapter
Entrepreneur
HR Manager INTERSPORT Greece & Cyprus, FOURLIS Group of Companies, VP at the BoD of the Greek People Management Association (GPMA)
e-Business & ICT Law Expert,
Partner Zoulovits Kontogeorgou
Law Firm
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Eurobank Group Asset Management
President at ACCI, President at National Chamber Network of Greek Women Entrepreneurs, Head of “Hellenic Cosmos” Cultural Centre
Human Resources Director, Balkans
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Vice President of the BoD and Managing Director, ESA Security Solutions
Marketing Manager Retail Banking, Group Product Marketing and Communications Division, National Bank of Greece
Chairman of the Association of Compliance Officers in Greece
Head of Compliance, AML Officer & Deputy DPO, Groupama Asfalistiki
Managing Partner
Dynargie Hellas
CEO, Marine Tours Group
Director General, Business
Development and Corporate Affairs,
Board Member TEMES S.A.
Chief Human Resources Officer
Vice President, Hellenic Institute of Human Resources Management
MoB, Agrino - EV.GE Pistiolas S.A,
Co-founder and President,
Ella-dika mas
Digital Transformation, Cyber Security
and e-Governance specialist,
Navios Group of Companies
Partner and Co-Founder Guruservices.Biz
Commercial Director - Connecticore
Founder Second Wind & Partners
President & Managing Director
Dirfys Water Bottling Company SA
CEO Nova Media
Managing Director, Th. C. SKAGIAS S.A.
Executive Director of SETE - Greek Tourism Confederetion
Corporate Communications & Sustainability Executive Director OTE Group
Head, Directorate of National & International Services
f. Gen. Manager GNTO Promotion
Greek National Tourism Organisation
Commercial Manager Mapei Hellas A.E.B.E.
Co-founder
Seaorama IKE
Director, IT&T Business Unit
Athens International Airport
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.
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.
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
