Who they are

Stavros Tsormpatzoglou

Attorney at law LL.M. / Financial Mediator

Stavros Tsormpatzoglou is an Attorney-at-law and Accredited Mediator (Hellenic Ministry of Justice member No.29), with in-depth knowledge of dispute resolution techniques in domestic and cross-border commercial and civil law disputes. ADR Specialist (Negotiation, Arbitration, Mediation).

He participated as a Member of the Law Preparatory Committee for the reform of Law 3598/2010 regarding Mediation in domestic commercial and civil law disputes (Law 4512/2108). He then served as a member of the Central Mediation Committee of the Hellenic Ministry of Justice for the Supervision and implementation of Mediation Law 4512/2108, as well as of Mediation Law 4640/2019. Former member of the Committee for the Examination of Mediators, the Accreditation Committee of Mediation Training Bodies, and the Register Committee of Mediators. Former Director for Vocational Education and Training regarding Mediation at Panteion University Mediation Institute.

He holds an LL.M. from the International Hellenic University in “Transnational and European Commercial Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution”, specializing in arbitration and mediation (thesis subject: “Compulsory Mediation: A contradiction?”). Furthermore, he has been trained in mediation by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), as well as the Harvard Negotiation Institute (Boston).

Konstantinos Knithakis

Senior Executive Economist MBA / Certified Financial Instructor

Professional Experience

Business Analytics and Corporate Management, Corporate Finance, Business Consultancy, Banking, Accountancy. Extensive experience in the process of transforming data into insights to improve business decisions. Data management, data visualization, predictive modeling, data mining, forecasting simulation, and optimization are some of the tools used to create insights from data. Able to build deep competency in the skills needed to implement and oversee data-driven business decisions, including (i) collecting, managing and describing datasets, (ii) forming inferences and predictions from data, and (iii) making optimal and robust decisions.

Certified Instructor of the Ministry of Education, in the areas of banking, investment products and insurance products related to investments, combining extensive experience in preparing executives for the examinations of the Certification in the Regulatory Framework of the Capital Market of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission and the Bank of Greece.

Areas of Practice
Finance, Accounting, Banking, Corporate, Investments, EU Programmes Innovation Fund

Languages
Greek, English

Academic Education

Department of Accounting and Finance – Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens
MBA, Full-Time Postgraduate Diploma in International European Economic Studies- European Economic Policy – Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens