Chief Financial Officer of EuroEnergy

As Chief Financial Officer for EuroEnergy, Jimmy Athanasopoulos oversees the capital structure of the company and is responsible for presenting and reporting all of its financial information. He is also manages the company’s economic strategy and forecasting.

Following an MBA from Northeastern Illinois University, Jimmy began his career in Chicago as a provider of financial and investment services across various asset classes. He later undertook a variety of management roles at multinational corporations including DNV, Tyco Healthcare, and TetraPak before entering ship management as Chief Financial Controller with FreeSeas Inc. preparing statutory reports towards the SEC. He later joined G. Bros Maritime S.A. where he was responsible for financial reporting to the Board of Directors. 

Mr. Athanasopoulos joined EuroEnergy’s parent company, the Libra Group, in 2012 as Director of the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (now Envolve Greece), an award program for Greek start-up businesses funded and operated by the Libra Group. In 2015 he joined Libra’s Executive Team as Head of Social Responsibility, providing strategic oversight of the group's global responsibility and education programs. 

In 2016, Mr. Athanasopoulos completed the Executive Education Program for Social Responsibility at Harvard Business School.

He remains Chairman of Envolve Greece and sits on the Board of the HOME Project, an initiative founded in Greece by the Libra Group to provide a safe haven for refugees, with a special focus on unaccompanied children.

General Director, Hisar School

Professor Gülay Barbarosoglu is the General Director of Hisar School since April 2018 after completing her academic career in Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. She served as the Rector of Bogaziçi University between August 2012 and November 2016. During her academic life, Professor Barbarosoglu served as the Vice-Rector for Research, as the founding Chair of Center for Disaster Management, as the Chair of Department of Industrial Engineering, as the Founding Chair of Financial Engineering at Bogaziçi University, and as the Head of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute.

As a professor of industrial engineering, Professor Barbarosoglu has contributed significantly to the areas of mathematical programming and optimization, logistics and humanitarian operations and production planning, stochastic programming and decision theory with her breakthrough publications and innovative projects.

As the Head of the Kandilli Earthquake Observatory, she expanded and upgraded the Turkey’s National Seismic Monitoring Network, participated in and contributed to global risk mitigation and crisis management research and implementation projects. In her efforts to enhance risk mitigation capability in the academia, she not only founded the Center for Disaster Management at Bogaziçi University, but networked with other academic instituitions to promote the academic awareness in the field of disaster and risk management.

In her role as the national representative of NATO RTO (Research and Technology Organization), she was involved in various projects and represented Turkey in various NATO RTO Meetings and activites to identify and improve the role of research and technology in designing the new NATO Strategic Concept accordingly. As the team-leader of NATO RTO projects, she has experienced numerous situations which improved her conflict resolution and consensus development skills.

As the Vice-Chair of EURO (the Association of European Operational Research Societies), and the board member of EUA (European Universities Association), she has worked with many universities in close collaboration to strengthen universities’ role in the development of knowledge society.

Currently she serves as a board member of several well-known companies and universities.

Director of International Admissions, Office of Admissions, George Washington University

President, Southwestern University

Dr. Edward Burger is the President of Southwestern University as well as an educational and business consultant.  Most recently he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, and served as Vice Provost for Strategic Educational Initiatives at Baylor University.He is the author of over 60 research articles, books, and video series (starring in over 3,000 on-line videos).

President Burger was awarded the 2000 Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Award for Distinguished Teaching and 2001 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics. The MAA also named him their 2001-2003 Polya Lecturer. He was awarded the 2003 Residence Life Teaching Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2004 he was awarded Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize and in 2006 he was a recipient of the Lester R. Ford Prize. In 2007, 2008, and 2011 he received awards for his video work. In 2007 Williams College awarded him the Nelson Bushnell Prize for Scholarship and Teaching.

President Burger is an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and Math Horizons Magazine and serves as a Trustee of the Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2006, Reader's Digest listed President Burger in their annual "100 Best of America" as America's Best Math Teacher. In 2010 he was named the winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching — the largest and most prestigious prize in higher education teaching across all disciplines in the English speaking world. Also in 2010 he starred in a mathematics segment for NBC-TV on the Today Show and throughout the 2010 Winter Olympic coverage.  That television appearance won him a 2010 Telly Award. The Huffington Post named him one of their 2010 Game Changers; "HuffPost's Game Changers salutes 100 innovators, visionaries, mavericks, and leaders who are reshaping their fields and changing the world." In 2012, Microsoft Worldwide Education selected him as one of their "Global Heroes in Education." In 2013 President Burger was inducted as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Dr. Burger was the 2008 ACS Athens Commencement speaker.

Chairman of the Board of Hellenic Bank

Petros Christodoulou through Callisto Capital advises Greek and International Corporates (Allianz,  Novo Nordisk, ABB, etc.), financial institutions and international institutional investors on business  strategy and finance. 

He is Chairman of the Board of Hellenic Bank (Cyprus) since Jan 2024, a member of the BoD of  Guardian Capital Group (Toronto, Canada, TSX: GCG.A) since 2016 and a member of the Institute  of Corporate Directors (ICD) of Canada. He is also head of Compensation Committee and member  of the Audit Committee of Danaos Corp. (NYSE: DAC), and head of the Audit Committee of the  BoD of Minetta Insurance and since 2020. He was a member of the BoD of Hellenic Exchanges SA  (2012-2014). 

He led Capital Product Partners LP (Nasdaq CPLP) as CEO and CFO from September 2014 until June 2015. The company owned 37 crude, product carriers and containerships calling on most of the US  and Int’l major ports. During his tenure at Capital Product Partners he led two capital increases  from US investors. Prior to that he held the position of Deputy CEO and Executive Member of the  Board of National Bank of Greece Group (NBG Group, 2012-2014) at a critical time when the bank  had to restructure, shed assets and raise capital. He led the negotiations with the EU DG Comp,  the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) and the Bank of Greece to agree the restructuring plan  of NBG Group. He also led the effort to recapitalize the Bank after the PSI (two rounds of capital  raising totaling €3.6bn and debt financing of €750mil in 2013 and 2014) and the ongoing efforts to  shed non-core assets to shore up capital. He chaired NBG Group’s ALCO, the BoD of NBG Asset  Management (2012-2014), and the BoD of Astir Palace SA (2012-2014) (hotel and leisure  business), and the BoD of NBG BankAssurance (2012-2014), was Deputy Chairman of the BoD of National Securities (2004-2006), and oversaw a number of the group’s subsidiaries including  NBG’s logistics subsidiary and real estate business. Along with TAIPED he ran the process for the  sale of Astir Palace SA. He restructured the resort’s liabilities, carried out an operational  restructuring, negotiations with the union and two voluntary retirement schemes for older  personnel plus switching some personnel from full time to seasonal employment. 

He returned to NBG following two successful years with the Hellenic Republic as the Director  General of Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) and an Executive Director on its BoD (2010- 2012). As Director General of PDMA he was responsible for the voluntary restructuring of €206bn  of Greek sovereign debt held by the private sector. That put him in the center of the 18month  negotiations among the Hellenic Republic, the EU, the ECB, the IMF and the universe of private  sector investors in Greek government debt which resulted in a nominal reduction of €106bn of  debt and an NPV reduction including official sector held debt in excess of 170bn, the largest  voluntary sovereign debt restructuring in history. 

Between 1998 and 2010 he was at NBG Group as General Manager of Group Treasury, Global  Markets and Private Banking. He led the Group’s ALCO and regional ALCOs across its Eastern  European and Turkish subsidiaries, as well as developed the group’s private banking effort in  South-East Europe. He was a member of the National Insurance investment committee. 

From 1989 to 1998, Mr Christodoulou held senior positions at international investment banks in  London. He was a Managing Director (1993-1998) at J.P. Morgan London (1989-1998), where he  was in charge of European derivatives trading, and held positions in the Bank’s proprietary trading  group, headed the European Short Term Interest Rate Trading desk (STIRT), and Emerging Markets FX, derivatives and short term interest rate trading. Mr Christodoulou began his investment  banking career at Credit Suisse First Boston in London in 1985 trading money markets and floating  rate notes, before joining Goldman Sachs in 1987 to ultimately head its money market trading  team in the UK before moving to Canada to trade provincial government bonds.  

Mr Christodoulou holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York (1983-1985) and a  Bachelor of Commerce from the Athens School of Commerce and Economics (ASOEE) (1978- 1982). He is official Columbia MBA Ambassador-Interviewer of candidates for the MBA Program.  He financed his studies with scholarships from the Hellenic Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the  Bodossaki Foundation. 

Mr Christodoulou is married, and a father of three children.

The American Hellenic Institute (AHI), is a non-profit Greek American public policy center. During his tenure with AHI, Nick Larigakis has organized more than 70 legislative conferences, two trade conferences on "Doing Business in Greece," nine conferences on the Future of Hellenism in America (2002-2010), and two congressional fact-finding delegations to Greece (1993 & 1997). He works with the U.S. Congress on U.S.-Greece-Cyprus relations, where he has provided witness testimony before congressional appropriations committees on foreign aid policy; and as liaison to the grass roots community, traveling the U.S. to educate the public about AHI’s public policy issues and other aspects of its mission. Moreover, Larigakis frequently visits Greece and Cyprus to meet with government officials.

Also, Larigakis serves as President of the Greek American Political Action Committee. He is a founding partner of 3NJ, LLC, a Virginia-based real estate development company. Prior to AHI, he worked at the National League of Families for POW/MIA’s from Southeast Asia where he helped coordinate its grass roots network. He has also served on the Boards of the Greek Orthodox Young Adult League for four years (president in 1989); and the Delian League, an organization of young Greek American professionals, for three years (president in 1992). Larigakis received his B.A. in Political Science from the College of New Jersey, formerly Trenton State, and did post-graduate work in International Affairs at the American University in Washington, D.C.

President and Director, Museum of Boston

Ioannis (Yannis) N. Miaoulis is currently the President of Roger Williams University in  Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. RWU is a top-ranked university in RI, offering juris doctorate, graduate, and undergraduate degrees.   

Prior to joining RWU, he was President and Director of the Museum of Science, one of the world’s largest science centers and New England's most-attended cultural institution, since 2003. Dr. Miaoulis came to the Museum from Tufts University, where he was Dean of the School of Engineering. In 2004, Dr. Miaoulis led the creation of the Museum's National Center for Technological Literacy® (NCTL®) to enhance knowledge of engineering for people of all ages and inspire future engineers and scientists. 

Dr. Miaoulis earned bachelor's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering and a master’s in economics at Tufts, receiving a master's in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published over 100 research papers and holds two patents. Miaoulis has been honored with the Presidential Young Investigator award, the Allan MacLeod Cormack Award for Excellence in Collaborative Research, the William P. Desmond Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Education, and Tufts University Alumni Association's Outstanding Service Award. A 2012 recipient of the Science Club for Girls Catalyst Award and is the 2011 winner of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Ralph Coats Roe Medal.

Retail Network Director of OTE Group

An agile, results driven sales executive, with a proven record of leading commercial growth, customer excellence, business and cultural transformation. An effective leader, able to maintain cultural sensitivity, manage diverse teams and maintain strategy cohesiveness. Over 16 years’ experience in successfully managing wide and varied sales networks, driving revenues, cost reduction and efficiencies, developing new business opportunities, within challenging market conditions and among fierce competition.    

Mr. Papagelis is currently Retail Network Director of the OTE Group, managing a national network of 417 shops (271 franchise plus 6 owned by GERMANOS, 131 COSMOTE, and 15 Dealers) successfully achieving sales targets and sales channels’ optimization.  He also works in:   

• Formulating and executing OTE Group retail sales strategy, ensuring alignment with Deutsche Telekom Group retail strategy, securing profitability and stability, maintaining a strong network footprint and boosting revenues at minimum costs. 
• Leading operational and cultural change, while building and maintaining high levels of employee satisfaction, balanced relationships with all stakeholders (incl. Unions, Franchisees, etc.) and a homogeneous Customer Experience 
• Leading operational and cultural change, while building and maintaining high levels of employee satisfaction, balanced relationships with all stakeholders (incl. Unions, Franchisees, etc.) and a homogeneous Customer Experience 

President of Widener University

Stacey M. Robertson is the 11th president of Widener University, a position she assumed in July 2022. 

An accomplished leader with impressive experience in strategic planning, workplace practices that support and promote people from under-represented groups, and developing curriculum that prepares students for success in the global workspace, Robertson came to Widener from SUNY Geneseo, where she was provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, and a professor of history. 

Prior to her time at SUNY Geneseo, President Robertson served as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, and as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Bradley University. She was also the Oglesby Professor of American Heritage at Bradley, where her career included serving as chair of the History Department and as director of the Women’s Studies program.

A distinguished author of four books on women abolitionists and equality, she also co-edited the book series Perspectives on Early America with a London-based publisher, and has co-directed the national nonprofit Historians Against Slavery, an organization focused on bringing historical context to the anti-human trafficking movement. She has lectured and spoken widely on topics including equity-centered universities, student retention, women’s rights in history and racial and social justice. 

She earned a PhD in history with an emphasis in women’s studies, from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a bachelor of arts degree in social history and social movements from Whittier College in Whittier, California. 

President Robertson is passionate about inspiring a culture of belonging at Widener, where students, faculty and staff thrive in an atmosphere of caring and mutual respect. She sets the tone by living into this mission with relentless positivity.

Alexandra Theodoropoulou was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She studied Law at the University of Strasbourg (Maitrise en Droit). She holds a degree from the University Barcelona (Licenciatura en Derecho) and two Master’s degrees (DEA) in  Philosophy from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and  from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She was awarded a PhD from the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University of Athens. 

As a Greek diplomat she has served at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations in Geneva (2002-2003) and at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union in Brussels (2003-2007). As a Consul of Greece in Houston, Texas (2007-2011) she has awarded by the Mayor of Houston for her contribution to the cultural life of the City of Houston. As a Deputy of the Embassy of Greece in Pretoria, South Africa (2016-2019) she was in charge of consular affairs and bilateral relations with the countries of Southern Africa. In August 2024 she will take post as the Consul General of Greece to Adelaide, Australia. 

While serving at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens, she has been engaged in several fields of Greek diplomacy, bilateral, multilateral, regional, European, trade, culture; she has also served as Diplomatic Advisor to the Ministry of Culture. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she worked as a research associate at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, has taught Public Law at the French-speaking Centre for Advanced Studies (CFES) in Athens and worked as an author in the daily press. 

She is author of the book “Survival and the Sacred; First Humanity, the Greek Cosmosystem and the Mysteries of Eleusis” (2023) and has various contributions in academic journals and conferences. She has published two poetry works in Greek under the pen name  Alexandra Kandanou: A Thousand in One Nights (2014), The Feather Bridle of Love (2017). 

She has a son, Jason Kouzas (born 2008).

Athletic Director, Carl R. Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Drexel University

Dr. Eric A. Zillmer is the Director of Athletics, Carl R. Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology, and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Now in his 21st year as Athletics Director, Zillmer oversees all components of the Athletics Department and also teaches in the University’s Pennoni Honors College.

Zillmer’s books include Principles of Neuropsychology, which has been used in over 500 Universities worldwide. The Quest for the Nazi Personality has been summarized as the definitive psychological analysis of Third Reich war criminals. Military Psychology examines the psychological contexts involved in geopolitical events. Zillmer was invited by the Pentagon as a Distinguished Visitor to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Pennsylvania National Guard to visit war-torn Bosnia, and he has most recently served as the prosecution mental health expert in the high-profile murder trial of Eric Frein who was sentenced to death in April 2017. Dr. Zillmer is also the author of several psychological assessment procedures, including the Tower of London-Drexel test and the d2 Test of Attention. His work has been translated into Czech, Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese.

Drexel’s Daskalakis Athletic Center has been voted the No.1 City Gym in Philadelphia and was also ranked No. 7 in the nation by College Magazine. Zillmer also founded the Drexel Sports management major in 2001 and he is a member of the NCAA U.S. Olympic Liaison Committee. Drexel’s athletic teams have won many city, conference and even a national championships (women’s basketball WNIT 2013). Zillmer has an international background. He was born in Japan and grew up in Europe. He attended the Werdenfels Gymnasium (Abitur) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Maximilians University in Munich (Physics), both in Germany. In the USA he attended Rutgers University (BA), the Florida Institute of Technology (MS, PsyD), Eastern Virginia Medical School (Residency) and the University of Virginia Medical School (Post Doc). Zillmer comes from an international sports family. His sister Bibi was a member of the German figure skating team in 1968 (Grenoble, France) and his father played baseball and football at the Unites States Military Academy at West Point.