Christina Papaconstantinou is Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece. She holds degrees from the Law School of the University of Athens and the University of London and has long and wide-ranging professional experience in the public and private sectors, specialising in fiscal policy, financial services, state aid, credit institution liquidation and non-performing loans. From 2012 to 2014, Ms Papaconstantinou served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance and as Secretary General of Fiscal Policy at the General Accounting Office. She has represented Greece at various international fora and has worked as an advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office, external consultant on matters of state aid, fiscal management, EU company and competition law, and expert in IMF missions. From 2017 to 2021, she was the Chair of the Board of Directors of “PQH Single Special Liquidation S.A.”. From 2019 to 2021, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission. Since 2020, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Concert Hall Organisation.

Stefanos Mytilineos was born in Athens in 1973. He holds a First Class degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Bristol, UK, and an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He brings onboard extensive international and Greek experience in technology, operations and business, having assumed managerial positions in Greece and abroad. He has been the Chief Technology Officer at Commercial Bank of Qatar and later on he was appointed General Manager, Digital Business at Piraeus Bank. Previously, he served as the Deputy Group CIO at Eurobank and a business consultant with McKinsey & Company, based in Athens and London. On 1.12.2020 he was appointed General Manager – Chief Operating Officer of the Alpha Bank.

Stavroula Kampouridou is the CEO of Interbanking Systems DIAS S.A. since January 2021. DIAS is the Greek Clearing and Settlement Mechanism. Prior to DIAS, she was Head of the FinTech Innovation Hub and Advisor to the Governor at the Bank of Greece (BoG). Her focus was on the FinTech initiatives undertaken at the BoG, like the Hub created in March of 2019, and the launch of the Regulatory Sandbox, a project fully funded by the EU. Before joining BoG, she was an IT Procurement Manager at NBG Group, heading the efforts of the sourcing unit. Prior to that she was a Hardware Sales Manager at IBM, responsible for the hardware sales in the Banking and Telecom sectors in Greece. She was awarded “Rookie of the Year” as the top performing new hire in Europe for the highest sales in IBM. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Athens, with distinction and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University on a full scholarship.

Ioannis Tsikripis is the Director of the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Greece, where he has been working for the last 20 years. Until recently, he held the position of the Deputy Director in the Banking Supervision Department, having gained significant experience - among others - in risk management. Previous work experience was in a commercial bank and in a consulting company. He is a member of the Financial Stability Committee and the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Central Bank and has been a member of various other Eurosystem committees. He holds a PhD from Panteion University and a postgraduate degree from the University of Southampton, while he has graduated from the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Marina Krimba currently holds the position of the head of Operations Transaction Banking & Centralized Services Sector. She has 26 years of banking experience, with an emphasis on Payments, with a clear understanding of customer needs and results-driven culture. She started her professional career in the Organization & Planning Sector of the Eurobank, initially with the object of process re-engineering and then served large projects of the Bank, with an active role in the domestic mergers and acquisitions. In 2008, she took over as head of the Cash Management & Cheques Unit and in 2010, she took over the responsibility of the Trade Finance, Payments & Cash Management Unit. She is currently, a member of the Coordinating Committee of Payments, Operations & Digital Banking of the Hellenic Banks Association, a member of the Eurobank Operational Risk Legal Cases Handling Committee, a member of the DIAS Board of Directors and a member in the consultations of the Athens Clearing House. She holds a degree from the Management and Economics Faculty of the Patras University, specializing in Business Administration. She warmly supports change with continuous improvement, simplicity, straightforwardness and open-mindedness, while her priority is the continuous professional development of her teams.

George Nasoulis is General Manager, Group CDO in Piraeus Bank Group. He has over 25 years of experience in designing and delivering large scale ICT solutions, managing IT professional teams and offering viable and innovative solutions enabling business through new technology. He is overseeing the data and analytics activities across Piraeus Bank Group focusing on setting the bank’s data strategy and leading the creation of a data-driven culture, on promoting innovation and integrating best of breed architectural approach, on establishing technologies, tools, approaches and methodologies to create and deliver business value and maximize the return on data & analytics assets of the organization and on ensuring optimal business and data strategy alignment. Mr. Nasoulis is a member of the BoD in InterBanking Systems S.A., has served as Group Chief Information Officer for Piraeus Bank Group, as chairman of the Hellenic Institute of Information and Communication Management (EIP) and as a member of the BoD of the Hellenic Management Association (EEDE). He holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MSc in Computer Science from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France.

Dimitris Plessas is the Assistant General Manager for Cards and Digital Business at National Bank of Greece since 2020. Prior to this position he was the Director of Digital Business, responsible for Internet and Mobile Banking, Self-Service Machines and Contact Center, Director of Retail Banking, responsible for Deposit, Investment and Bancassurance Products, Premium and Retail Segments and Customer Analytics, as well as Director of Retail Segments, responsible for Premium, Business and Retail Segments, Customer Analytics and Loyalty. He was also a member of the Board of Directors for NBG Bancassurance. He joined NBG in 2006 as a senior member of Group's Strategy. Prior to NBG he has worked as a Senior Associate in the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, undertaking projects in Greece, Europe and the Middle East in various industries, including banking, telecoms and retail. He holds an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and an M.B.A. from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).

Dimitra Vourna was born in Athens and she holds an Economics degree from the Economic University of Athens and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from ALBA. She is also a Chief Operating Foundation Course graduate from Cambridge University. She has an in depth experience in the financial sector in Greece and in the European Region and currently she is the Chief Operating Officer at Attica Bank. She has been the Chief Operating Officer at HSBC in Greece, while previously she was appointed as the Head of Operations Europe HSBC, having under her responsibility 19 countries in the European Region. Previously she was the Head of Wealth Management in Retail Banking in HSBC and she started her career at Piraeus Asset Management. Among others, during the years 2017-2022 she was the Gender Balance chair for Europe in HSBC and she was actively involved in ensuring that all people across the region had equal opportunities and that the female representation in leadership positions was increasing.

Professor Charikleia Apalagaki, holds, since March 2017, the position of the Secretary General of the Hellenic Bank Association. She is also full Professor in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, since 2004, and Member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association since 1984. Her studies in law (Civil, Commercial, Banking, European Financial, and Criminal) were undertaken at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she was awarded her PhD in Civil Procedure Law. She has intensive course and longer research stay in Germany (Hannover Law Faculty) for a period of three years and she still cooperates with the German Law Faculty, as well with other European Law Faculties (Erasmus teaching programs). Ms. Apalagaki is specialized in enforcement law and in insolvency proceedings and has also extensive legislative drafting experience, as she has been appointed Member in various committees of the Ministry of Justice, for law amendments in civil procedure and banking law. She has participated in numerous congresses, as Speaker, and has published a remarkable number of scientific working papers.