CURRICULUM VITAE ΖΑΧΑΡΟΠΟΥΛΟ΢ Π. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ΢ PERSONAL INFORMATION QUALIFICATIONS Address of correspondence: Nationality: Greek & British 1. MEng, in Civil Engineering, Imperial College, 2001 Age: 46 2. ACGI, Member, Association of City & Guild Institute, 2001 e-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] 3. MSci, in Geology University of Athens, 2002 Tel: (+30)6937446600 4. TEE, Licenced Civil Engineer in Greece, 2002 5. ΓΕΩΣΕΕ, Licenced Geologist in Greece, 2002 Address of Correspondence: 6. FGS, Fellow of The Geological Society, 2003 Ioannou Drosopoulou Str. 26, Kypseli, 7. EurIng, Licensed European Engineer in all EU countries, Athens, GR-112 57, Greece FEANI, 2004 Tel (GR): +30-6937446600 8. MICE, Chartered Member of Institute of Civil Engineers, 2005 Tel (CH): +86-183-9244-9000 9. CEng, Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council UK, 2005 10. MBA, Masters in Business Administration, MBA International Program, Athens University of Business & Economics, 2017 LANGUAGES 11. PgDIN, Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiations, Athens Greek - Native University of Business & Economics, 2017 English - Bilingual French – Basic 12. CSCS-Platinum, NVQ level 7 Senior Manager, Civil & Mandarin – Basic Structural Engineering Designer, 2002 Spanish – Basic 13. Licensed Consultant, ΤΜΤ/Δ24Greek State, 2005 14. H&S Manager, OSHA30, 2006 15. Safe Working in Confined Spaces Instructor (SWCSI) O Αλζξανδροσ Ζαχαρόπουλοσ είναι διπλ. πολιτικόσ μθχανικόσ του Imperial College Λονδίνου και γεωλόγοσ του Πανεπιςτθμίου Ακθνών με μεταπτυχιακά ςτθ διοίκθςθ επιχειριςεων και τισ διαπραγματεφςεισ ςτο Οικονομικό Πανεπιςτιμιο Ακθνών με ερευνθτικζσ ςυμμετοχζσ ςε Αγγλικά και Αμερικάνικα πανεπιςτιμια/εταιρείεσ, όπου ζχει διδάξει μεταπτυχιακά μακιματα και ζχει ανάπτυξει 2 ευρεςιτεχνίεσ και πολλάκισ τεχνολογικζσ ερευνθτικζσ λφςεισ αιχμισ. Έχει εργαςτεί επί 20χρόνια ςτο εξωτερικό ςε πολυεκνικζσ ςτο πεδίο τθσ ανάπτυξθσ, μελζτθσ και καταςκευισ δθμόςιων ζργων υποδομισ (π.χ. Metro Dubai, London Underground) και ιδιωτικών ζργων ωσ SME καταςκευαςτισ. Είναι αναγνωριςμζνοσ ορκωτόσ αρχιμθχανικόσ και ζχει ηιςει και εκτεκεί εργαςιακά ςε Ακινα, Λονδίνο, Dubai, Νζα Τόρκθ, Jeddah και ShenZhen/Xi’an κυρίωσ. ΢τθν Ελλάδα εργάςτθκε κατά διαςτιματα από 18ετών ςτο χώρο των ζργων υποδομισ ςε όλεσ τισ βακμίδεσ ευκφνθσ και ζχει κατανόθςθ των ςυςτθμικών προβλθμάτων του Ελλθνικοφ κράτουσ. Επαγγελματικά ωσ διευκυντισ ζργων με πάκοσ πιςτεφει ςτθν υποςτιριξθ(mentoring) των νζων επιςτθμόνων, τθσ ανάγκθσ τθσ δια βίου παιδείασ, των ευκαιριών αξιοκρατικισ ανζλιξθσ δια βίου των εργαηομζνων, ενώ αςχολείται ενεργά με τθν υποςτιριξθ των ελλθνικών ςυμφερόντων ςτθν εξωςτρεφι επιχειρθματικότθτα και καινοτομία. Είναι άνκρωποσ τθσ πολιτικισ ανάπτυξθσ και των οικονομικών αναπτυξιακών λφςεων, τθσ ςυλλογικότθτασ, ανκρωποκεντριςτισ και τθσ αναπτυξιακισ αειφορίασ. Ένκερμοσ υποςτθρικτισ των ςφχγρονων διοικθτικών μεκοδολογιών και μοντζλων διοίκθςθσ του lean six sigma δίδει ζμφαςθ ςτθν υπεραξία των επωφελιών τθσ διοικθτικισ επιςτιμθσ και τεχνολογίασ. ΓΕΝΙΚΕ΢ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕ΢ EurIng Alexander Zacharopoulos has extensive experience in leading and managing design and construction teams. He is a known program/project director/manager, senior project/construction manager and lead engineering technical director. He is a successful strategist and assisted his managing directors to deliver or win multibillion worth of projects. He has been partner and owner of construction and consulting businesses in UK Middle East and China and is well-connected in the UK, Middle East and Greek consulting/construction industry. His accumulated more than 25 years of professional experience has been divided between UK, USA, Greece, KSA and China and has a vast international exposure (Russia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Turkey, Tunisia, Uganda, Sudan, Nigeria, Italy, Germany, Malta, Serbia, Ireland, Spain, Bangladesh, India, Dominican Republic and Albania). He has lead proposals for billions worth of construction and design work. He has a distinctive management style of hard- working ethos that is driven by the shear focus on success and delivery of results. He has experience in PFI, D&B and traditional civil engineering in all types of built environment projects. His medical healthcare projects include the three main MedicalCities of the Ministry of Health of KSA which he led during execution, worth during Phase I 10.5billionUSD, among other smaller projects in UK primarily. His project leadership expertise covers all possible recycling projects needs, across all phases of initiation, planning, tendering and execution. He has led several R&D teams and projects on innovation and entrepreneurship. Alex has been engaged in civil engineering since 1991. With a strong academic background, he has completed full-time courses in Civil Engineering and Geology and a solid MBA and other leadership postgraduate education taken at the Athens University of Economics & Business AUEB. Alex has numerous professional qualifications MEng ACGI MSci CEng EURING TEE ΓΕΩΣΕΕ FGS MICE MBA and PgDIN along with all director level PM/H&S training across 3 continents. Alex is a keen innovator and he is part of the AUEB MSL team as a research fellow, driving innovations on applied research projects among other initiatives within the matrix of Lean Management/Project Management/BIM 7D/ QA 6sigma systems/ Circular Economy/ Industry 4.0/ Smart cities/ EGCR-CSR/Applied IOT-Big data analytics. 2020-05 CV Alex Zacharopoulos EDUCATION 1991 - 1996 University of Athens, Faculty of Geology - Panepistimioupoli, Ano Illisia, Athens, Greece Ptychion in Geological Sciences (Equivalent to MSci Geology, accredited by UK NARIC) 1997 - 2001 Imperial College, London - Exhibition Rd, SW7 2BU, U.K MEng in Civil Engineering 2008 - 2012 University of Southampton, Southampton – University Road, SO17 1B, U.K PhD in Civil Engineering – Geotechnical Engineering – Incomplete 2016 - 2017 Athens University of Economics & Business, Athens - 47a Evelpidon Str., GR-113 62, Greece MBA International 2016 - 2017 Athens University of Economics & Business, Athens – Kefallinias 46 – 3rd floor, GR-112 51, Greece Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiations OLDER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AWARDS & RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Member, British Dam Society, 2000 Member of Greek National Youth Team (Sprinter) with several national wins, Member, International Society for Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical 1985 –1988 Engineering, 2000 Greek Mathematical Association: Achieved second phase of the national Member, International Society of Rock Mechanics, 1999 competition for the selection of the Youth Olympic National Team. At the Member, Society for Earthquake & Civil Engineering Dynamics, 1999 second phase of the national examinations 80 pupils were selected from across the country, 1988 Member, British Geotechnical Association, 1998 Elected representative of the North Athens Pupils Association, Leading the Member, Hellenic Geological Society, 1998 protesting campaign against proposed educational bills, 1990 Member, Greek Consultants Association, 1997 Elected representative of the faculty of Geology for the national student association, 1992 - 1994 INTERNTATIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE The Royal Exhibition of 1851, Research Scholarship, 2001 Greece, UK, USA, China, Vietnam, KSA, Russia, Tunisia, The Centralians Trust, Research Scholarship 2001 Uganda, Angola, Cameroon, Sudan, Nigeria, Italy, Germany, The Convocation ULU, Research Scholarship 2001 Malta, Serbia, Ireland, Spain, France, Kuwait, Turkey, Qatar, The Nuffield Foundation, Research Scholarship 2001 UAE, Bangladesh, India, Dominican Republic, Albania, Australia The Campden Charities, Research Scholarship 2001 EPSRC, Research Scholarship 2006 Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Southampton, 2007 Research Fellow, MSL lab, Athens University of Economics & Business, 2018 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Jul 2018 – 1/3/2020 XIAMEN BESTSTONES LTD, KINGSTONES HONG KONG LTD & SHAANXI ZETONG GLOBAL LTD, Xi'an (China) Job Title/Position: Group CEO of Xiamen BestStones Ltd, KingStones Hong Kong Ltd and Shanxi Zetong Global ltd (China) CEO of a group of Chinese companies with a matrix of operations and interests in the facade engineering/construction, recycling trading, real estate investments & developments and in international trading of building materials industries. Stakeholder of the newly formed Kings Developments AE created to invest, develop and construct building and tourist purpose-built assets in Greece primarily. Business alliances and contracts were undertaken with clients, except PP China, in Vietnam, France, Germany, Cameroon, Greece, UK and Australia. Representative of the Xi’an(Chang’an) Thessaloniki Twining-Sister cities program initiation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs P.R. China, Shaanxi-Xi’an chapter - Silk Road program Jun 2018 – Ongoing ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS & BUSINESS, ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ, Athens (Greece) Job Title/Position: RESEARCH FELLOW, Applied Engineering Management, at OReS/TRANSLOG research centres of Management Science Laboratory at AUEB. Program Director of multiple Defense & Manufacturing Industries R&D projects – Conceptualizations and Initiations up to confirmed financial backing, Total Program Budget: 2Million Euros, HR/Stakeholders management of circa 10 people. Innovations and academic research in the academic ICT/Engineering matrix of new emerging technologies that combine the abilities driven by the fields of Circular Economy / EGRC-CSR/ Lean six sigma / Smart IOT cities / Operational management / Critical Infrastructure / IoT-AI