Ilias possesses more than 30 years of professional experience mainly as a senior financial and administrative officer / director in private sector companies of the financial services and banking sector, in construction and management of real estate assets, in institutional real estate fund management, as well as in the oil and gas exploration & production sector. This professional experience and knowhow, is broken up in ten professional (10) years in the US and twenty (20) years in Greece and SE Europe.
Furthermore, Ilias has acted as an independent corporate and financial consultant for various companies primarily active in the real estate development sector, as well as for investment consortia through the process of the privatization plan of key sectors of the Greek economy. Through his wide, long-time and multi-faceted professional experience, he has actively managed more than € 400 million in investment funds (equity) and more than € 1 billion in total asset value.
Ilias holds an Economics degree (B.A.) from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), (1983) and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management (1985), Phoenix, Arizona, both in the US. His degrees are fully recognized by the Greek appropriate authorities and he is a member of the Economic Chamber of Commerce of Greece. His is fluent in English and also speaks fair French and Romanian. He has participated in many professional seminars, continuing education programs and conferences in Greece and abroad.
