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CEO of Public Power Emmanuel Panagiotakis­ CEO of Public Power You have been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since April 2015 of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece and have been working at PPC since 1974. The Public Power Corporation was established in 1950 and has a mission statement and end goal of providing cheap and affordable electricity to the citizens of Greece. Due to your long history at the company as well as your successes at the company, you have been a high ranking, influential member for the past 20 years. You hold a degree in Engineering from the National Technological University in Athens. You also hold a degree in Management from Henley Management College. In addition to your PPC position, you are the Secretary for the Greek Confederation of Labor. Your position as secretary of the Greek Confederation of Labor demonstrates your commitment to workers’ rights as well as your influence in government and amongst Greek workers. You are an ambitious man and have worked hard for your successes. As CEO of PPC, you are trying to switch Greece to renewable energy sources by 2034 by buying renewable energy sources systems at five times their selling rate from independent producers. Overt Powers: You have considerable authority in the Greek government and can influence how ​ resources are distributed. Demetrios P. Mantzounis­ CEO of Alpha Bank You were born and raised in 1947 in Athens. You went through middle school and high school in Athens and upon graduating you attended University of Aix­Marseille from 1964 to 1968 where you studied political science and received your Bachelor’s in Applied Science. You started working Alpha Bank in 1973. Alpha Bank was founded in 1879 and receives and provides loans to the Greek population. In 1995, after twenty long years at the bank, you were placed on Alpha’s board of directors. You served as the Chairman of AXA Insurance S.A. (formerly Alpha Insurance SA). You have been an Executive Director of Alpha Bank since 1995. You also served as General Manager ​ ​ of Alpha Bank since 2002. You were promoted to the Managing Director of Alpha Bank on ​ ​ February 23, 2005. You now serve as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). You also serve as the Chairman and Managing Director of Alpha Astika Akinita subsidiaries of Alpha Bank. You are an ambitious man deeply involved in the finance sector and are also accredited for being Vice Chairman of the Hellenic Bank Association. Currently, you have an approval rating of 50%, which is very high given the lack of confidence in the Greek financial sector. Overt Powers: As the CEO of Alpha Bank, You are also in charge of logistics regarding loans ​ and are an icon for consumer confidence especially considering Alpha Bank is one of the biggest banks in Greece. Fokion C. Karavias­ CEO of EFG Eurobank Ergasias You were born in Athens in 1964. You attended college for Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. After your undergraduate studies, you undertook a Master’s and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. You currently hold the position of CEO of Eurobank Ergasias, and have since February 2015. You also currently serve as Executive Director of Eurobank Ergasias and are on the Board of Directors at EFG Eurolife Life Insurance, Eurobank Private Bank Luxembourg S.A., and Eurobank Cyprus Ltd. Your career in banking started at JP Morgan in 1991. You started in the market risk management division at JP. Morgan. After three years in 1994, you moved back to Athens and joined Citibank. You were responsible for derivative and fixed income businesses in Greece which led to you joining Eurobank in 1997. You have accrued a considerable private fortune and have invested it in private property on the Mediterranean, You also have an apartment in New York. However, the financial crisis negatively impacted your real estate assets and pushed you towards higher­risk investments in the oil sector, among others. Your oil investments have also suffered due to the significant depreciation in oil prices over the past years. Overt Powers: You have connections at JP Morgan New York, Citibank in Athens, and Board ​ of Directors of Eurobank Private Bank Luxembourg S.A. You also have a background in chemical engineering. Stavros M. Lekkakos­ Managing Director and CEO of Piraeus Bank You are currently the Managing Director and CEO of Piraeus Bank. You were born in 1952. You attended college at Athens University where he got a degree in Economics. He started his first job at American Express in 1968. He left in 1992 and joined Piraeus Bank where he was appointed Group General Manager this happened in 1998. The Piraeus Bank has a network of 1,175 branches since 2014. It is headquartered in Athens and works within the Hellenic Stability Fund. The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund does not belong to the private sector, and thus has administrative and financial autonomy from government. After going to Macedonia and Romania for a few years to work and even run others banks such ETA. Soon after he returned to his homeland of Greece in 2008. Where he was reinstated as deputy managing director at Piraeus Bank. He was made Deputy CEO in 2011 and was pushed up to CEO in May 2015. Mr. Lekkakos has founded many alliances with Middle Eastern countries and has good relationships with the rulers of Saudi Arabia and UAE. He has been able to receive rent from the oil that is made there by making deals directly with the rulers, in exchange for any other favors in his bank transactions in Greece and the European Union. Overt Powers: As a founding member of Business Councils in Greece­Kuwait, Greece­Qatar, ​ Greece­UAE, Greece­Saudi Arabia, you have strategic partnerships with businessman in various locations. Theodoros Daskarolis­ Greek Ambassador to Germany Theodoros Daskarolis is currently serving as the Greek Ambassador to Germany. He was born in 1955 in Athens. He has loved Germany ever since he was a little boy and even spent a few years living in Bonn with his family. In 2000 he moved from his home in Bonn to Berlin which was the new capital. He moved to Greece for a while and was known to look up his name and read stories about a character named after himself. His love for both these countries inspired him to become the person he is today. People view him as careful and smart. He is considered the type of person who watches movements, but doesn’t run with them. He graduated with a Law degree from the Aristotle University. He is also married with one daughter. Overt Powers: You have always had close ties with Germany; although born in Athens in 1955, ​ you lived with your parents for several years in Bonn returning to Berlin in 2000. Your close relationship with Germany means that you have many friends in German businesses and politics. Dr. Andreas Xanthos­ Minister of Health Dr. Andreas Xanthos, is the Minister of Health in Greece. He is also a member of Hellenic parliament and a well known doctor. He attended and graduated medical school at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a member of the central committee of Syriza and was first elected into parliament in May 2012. He assumed his position as minister of health in September of 2015. He is someone who is looked up to by many he created a plan to cover uninsured Greek people which is a large influence on why he was appointed by his peers. He is currently working on the health care in Greece which he believes is falling apart in front of his eyes. He believes that the cause of this is the lack of staff and that their could be some form of health care system black out soon because of it. He has reverted a trend of reducing the amount of staff by hiring around 3000 employees to the ministry of Health. Pavlos Polakis was appoint Alternate Minister of Health and along with Andreas Xanthos, they are two of the only three Cretan ministers government. Xanthos applies to the Cretan stereotype of being a liar, but he is a pathological liar. He has misguided the government about every single objective he has and any results he has achieved in the ministry. Overall, the increase in staffing has been terribly implemented but he keeps covering it up. Now with the refugee crisis, the system is feeling the burden of the lack of preparation that Xanthos claimed the Ministry had. Overt Powers: You have many relationships in the medical industry due to your past ​ connections with health centres in Perama and in Rethymno. You were, for several years, chairman of the doctors' union in Rethymno and also a member of the General Council of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors (OENGE) and the General Assembly of the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS). You also have influence over the Voluntary Social Solidarity Clinic in Rethymno, where you took an active role in its establishment. Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis­ Chief of General Army Staff Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis was born in Rethymnon, Crete on May 14th, 1957. He joined the Hellenic Naval Academy in 1976 and was commissioned as Ensign of the Hellenic Navy in July 1980. He has completed the Underwater Demolitions Team School of the Hellenic Navy and he is a graduate of the Advance Mine Warfare School (Belgium), Amphibious Warfare School USMC (USA) and Hellenic Navy War College. His sea duty assignments include various tours. He served mainly on Destroyers and Amphibious ships as Communication, Navigation and Operations Officer.
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