Megalou Christos

Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Head of Investment Banking for Greece, Cyprus and South Eastern Europe

Christos J. Megalou is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Head of Investment Banking for Greece, Cyprus and South Eastern Europe and he is based in London.

Mr. Megalou joined the Firm from BZW, which CSFB acquired in late 1997, where he was a Director in the Investment Banking division. Prior to joining BZW in London, he was with Barclays in Athens where he was a Manager in the Corporate Finance division and later Head of the BZW office in Athens. Mr. Megalou began his career at Arthur Andersen and Agricultural Bank of Greece in Athens. Key transactions include the secondary offering in Diana Shipping, IPO of Aries Maritime, the strategic advisory to National Bank of Greece on the acquisition of Finansbank and the follow-on rights offering to finance the acquisition; the accelerated bookbuildings in Hellenic Telecommunications (OTE) and National Bank of Greece by the Hellenic Republic, the secondary offering in OPAP by the Hellenic Republic, the public offer by Vodafone Group plc to the minority shareholders of Vodafone-Panafon; and the merger between Hellenic Bottling Company and Coca Cola Beverages (2000). He is currently involved in shipping IPO's . He is leading the team who is executing two shipping IPO's on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Megalou holds a. B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Athens and an M.B.A. from Aston University in Birmingham U.K.

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Monokroussos Platon

Mr Platon Monokroussos currently works as Head of Financial Markets Research with EFG Eurobank Ergasias in Athens.

Before joining EFG Eurobank Ergasias, he held high-level positions in several leading financial institutions including ABN AMRO and Bank of America. Mr. Monokroussos holds a Bachelor's degree in theoretical Mathematics and two Master's degrees (Economics and Business Administration). He has also received his Ph.D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dept. of Economics. Over the past several years, Mr. Monokroussos has participated as a speaker in numerous economic forums in Athens and other major European cites and he has regularly been cited in the local and international financial press and newswires.

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Papoutsis George

President of ASSOCIATION OF GREEK INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND MUTUAL FUND MANAGEMENT COMPANIES.

George Papoutsis, born in 1962, studied Management Information Systems in George Washington University, U.S.A., and being a scholar of the Foundation Onassis, he followed an MBA program and obtained a post-graduate degree in Finance & Investment.

George Papoutsis/ career spans 20 years of experience in the investment management and fund industry, most of which he has spent with NBG Group, initially as Treasurer (1995-2000) and then as General Manager of Diethniki Mutual Fund Management Company (2000-to date). He has held various senior positions with Societe Generale (1987-1994) & EFG Eurobank (1994-1995).

Since October 2006, he has been chairman of the Association of Greek Institutional Investors.

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Dr. Polemarchakis Iraklis

Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Οικονομικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Warwick

Education

1973: A.B.(Economics and Mathematics), Yale University
1978: Ph.D. (Economics), Harvard University

Employment

1977 - 1978: Lecturer, Department of Economics, Harvard University
1978 - 1982: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University
1982 - 1990: Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
1990 - 2000: Professor, Department of Economics, Universite catholique de Louvain
2000 - 2005: Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University
2005- present: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Other

1979 - 1980: Faculty Research Fellow, CORE, Universite catholique de Louvain
1986 - 1987: Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
1987 - 1988 Director, KEΠE, Centre for Planning and Economic Research, Athens
1991 - 1995: Research Director, CORE, Universite catholique de Louvain
1991 - present: Fellow, the Econometric Society
1992 - 1997: Council Member, European Economic Association
1996 - 2003: Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Growth
1996, fall: Visiting Professor, Yale University
1997 - present: Co - Editor, Journal of Mathematical Economics
1997, fall: Visiting Professor, Yale University
1998, spring: Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
1998 - 2000: President, CORE, Universite catholique de Louvain
1999 - 2000: Visiting Professor, H.E.C. School of Management
2000 - 2004: Associate Editor, Research in Economics
2004 - 2007: Advisory Board, Annals of Finance
2005 - 2006: Co - Editor, Berkeley Electronic Journal of Theoretical Economics
2005 - present: Fellow, the European Economic Association
2005 - present: Economic Adviser, ΠΑΣΟΚ, Socialist Party, Athens

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Handjinicolaou George

Deputy CEO, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA).

George Handjinicolaou is Deputy CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), and also Regional Head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). His extensive involvement with all aspects of derivatives markets dates back to the early eighties.

Before joining ISDA, Mr. Handjinicolaou was the founding member and managing partner of Etolian Capital Management, LLC, a proprietary trading and investment advisory firm. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Handjinicolaou was also the founding partner of Etolian Capital Group, LP, a market-neutral biased, relative value hedge fund specializing in credit and capital structure arbitrage. Prior to forming Etolian Capital, Mr. Handjinicolaou was managing director at Merrill Lynch with responsibility for the Global Fixed Income Emerging Markets business (2000-2002), while from 1998 to 2000, he was executive vice president and head of fixed income for the Americas at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson with responsibility for all of the firm's fixed income activities in the Americas. From 1986 to 1998, Mr. Handjinicolaou was involved with the fixed income derivatives trading in a variety of functions, including head of global swaps group at Security Pacific/Bank of America, and head of fixed income derivatives for the Americas at UBS. In the early eighties (1983 to 1986), and for a brief period in the nineties (1994-1995), he was with the World Bank Group, including serving as the Treasurer of the IFC.

Over the years, Mr. Handjinicolaou has been an active member of the financial community, has served on the Board of Directors of ISDA and Brokertek, and on the Advisory Boards of Polytechnic University, and the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He has also taught at N.Y.U. and Baruch College and has published several articles. He holds a BA in economics from Athens University, and MBA and Ph.D degrees from NYU.

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