
Giannis Bratakos will be the candidate for the presidency of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI).
After the loss of Konstantinos Michalos, in the elections that will be held in the near future, Mr. Bratakos, until today 2nd vice-president of ACCI, will be a candidate for the position of president.
Resume
According to the CV published on the website of the chamber:
Giannis Bratakos is CEO and founding member of the IT company DDSYNERGY since 1999. He is active in the field of IT and especially in the services for SAP software since 1995 as IT Consultant at SAPHellas. In 1997 he worked for the Norwegian company HYDRO at its headquarters in Brussels. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the company GRIGORIS MIKROGEVMATA and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the consulting company CAPECONSULTING.
Since 2006 he has been continuously elected a member of the Board of Directors of the ATHENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY, initially in the Commercial department and since 2012 in the Services department. In December 2017, he was elected Second Vice President of the ACCI and deals mainly with issues of innovation, new technologies, start-ups, investments and in general with the ecosystem of Greek entrepreneurship.
He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Development & Progress Company (ETAP) of ACCI, a member of the monitoring committee of the National Reform Program for the achievement of the objectives of the revised Lisbon Strategy and a representative of ACCI in the Information Technology & Communication Committee of EUROECOM He was also a representative of ACCI in the Monitoring Committee of the Regional Operational Program of Attica 2007-2013 as well as a representative of ACCI in Boards of Development Partnerships funded by the community initiative EQUAL.
Giannis Bratakos studied Production & Management and did a postgraduate course in Political Economy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He has written numerous articles on entrepreneurship, development and the IT market in newspapers and specialized magazines.


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