CV NIKOS STATHOPOULOS

Nikos is Managing Partner and Member of the Executive Committee and Investment Committee of BC Partners, the leading international investment firm. He joined BC Partners in 2005 and has 23 years experience in private equity. He has been an active investor in the media, telecoms, consumer and retail industries. Prior to joining BC Partners, Nikos was a Partner at Apax Partners in London where he spent seven years investing in Europe. Prior to Apax he spent three years as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in London.

Nikos is Chairman of the Board of United Group, Cigierre, Dental Pro, and Pharmathen, Vice-Chairman of Migros Turk and a Member of the Board of Acuris, Springer Nature and Advanced.

Nikos is a member of the Global Advisory Board of Harvard Business School, the Board of Trustees of the American School in London, the Board of Trustees of Impetus, the Board of The Hellenic Initiative‎,  a member of the council of Serpentine Galleries, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Chairman of the BC Partners Foundation. Financial News has voted Nikos in the Hall of Fame of Private Equity in 2016. Nikos holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Business Administration from Athens University of Economics & Business.

CV PETER ECONOMIDES

Peter Economides is a highly experienced global marketing and communications specialist, former EVP and Worldwide Director of Client Services at McCann-Erickson, and former Head of Global Clients at TBWA\Worldwide. He has worked on some of the world’s leading brands including Absolut, Apple, Beiersdorf, Chivas Regal, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Gillette, L’Oréal, Nestlé, Sony and Unilever. Peter founded Felix BNI in 2003.

He started in Johannesburg as Advertising and Promotions Manager for Pepsi-Cola Africa.
A short while later he joined McCann-Erickson South Africa.

His first assignment outside South Africa was at McCann-Erickson Hong Kong as Regional Account Director for South East Asia.

Two years later he moved to Greece as CEO of McCann-Erickson Athens.

In 1992 Peter was appointed CEO of McCann-Erickson Mexico, one of the largest operating units within the McCann-Erickson Worldwide network.

In 1996 he moved to McCann-Erickson Worldwide in New York as Executive Vice President/Worldwide Director of Client Services. A key role was the management of the $1,8 billion Coca-Cola global advertising account.

A few years later Peter moved to TBWA\Worldwide as Head of Global Clients. He was the global management leader for the relaunch of Apple following the return of Steve Jobs in 1997.

Peter has served as the voluntary Board Chair of leading global charity, Make-A-Wish International, based in Phoenix Arizona. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival and the OXI Day Foundation in Washington DC. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the SAHETI School in Johannesburg.

Peter has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hellenic Council of America.
His work has been recognised by the US Congress. Early in 2018, the International Propeller Club of the United States honoured him with a Members’ Award of Excellence.

Peter is a frequent speaker at global shipping events, urging the industry to engage with society.