NIKITAS DESPOTIDIS

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Director, Advisory Services, EY

Professional experience

Nikitas has more than 20 years of experience in technical, commercial and management positions of increasing responsibility in multinational Information Technology and Consulting Services companies such as Group Bull, Digital (DEC), Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Quint, Ernst & Young (EY), having worked successfully with Financial Services, Telecoms, IT, Lottery and Public Sector organizations and having managed relationships with major third party IT software vendors & integrators. Possessing also significant entrepreneurial and academic experience.

He was co-founder and managing director of the Greek affiliate of international IT management consulting firm Quint Group. Since 2011 he has joined the Advisory Services practice of EY in Greece, currently serving as a director, with geographical area of activity the Southeast Europe. In parallel, since 2003 he has been appointed as local lecturer for Strategy courses at the International MBA program of the University of Strathclyde Business School (UK), Greek branch in Athens. Since 2014 he is a mentor at egg (enter-grow-go) program, a corporate social responsibility and innovative youth entrepreneurship initiative by Eurobank in cooperation with Corallia Hellenic Technology Clusters.

Nikitas holds a BEng. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, an MSc. in Control Systems from Imperial College London, and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. He also holds professional certifications in Project Management (PRINCE2), in IT Service Management (ITIL v3) and in Scrum agile framework (Professional Scrum Master-PSM I).

MITEF Greece Startup Competition 2018