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John Sitilides is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., specializing in U.S. government relations, geopolitical risk, and international affairs. Delivering exclusive geopolitical risk reports, webcasts, and related products and services to institutional capital market and retail clients, he is a professional speaker at corporate, investor, and industry conferences, and before government, military and intelligence community audiences, on geopolitical risk management and the business impacts of international security policies.  He explores the complex geopolitical and geo-economic decisions that impact markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and worldwide, helping corporate executives, investment managers and civic audiences better understand, anticipate, and mitigate risk.

Under a U.S. government contract since 2006, Sitilides is the Southern Europe Regional Coordinator at the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department’s professional development and diplomacy academy for American foreign policy professionals. He was Board Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Center Southeast Europe Project from 2005-2011, following seven years as Executive Director of the Western Policy Center, an international relations institute specializing in U.S., NATO and EU interests in southeastern Europe and the Middle East, until he negotiated its 2004 merger with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

He has testified before Congress and is a frequent national security commentator on U.S. and international media such as Bloomberg News, CNN, FOX News, and CNN International. He is also interviewed on Chinese, Russian, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Israeli, and Arab television as well as having been interviewed and cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Politico, National Public Radio, Euromoney, Asia Times, Institutional Investor, South China Morning Post and other leading print and digital media.

Sitilides serves on the Board of Directors of 3doo, Inc, a VR360 media technology company, and on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of Leadership 100, a national Orthodox Christian foundation. He served on the Board of Directors of Biovest, developing personalized cancer immunotherapies; the Board of Directors of International Orthodox Christian Charities, a global humanitarian organization; and the Board of Governors of the Advanced Imaging Society, promoting the global motion picture industry’s arts and technologies.

He is a member of the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Columbia University Club of Washington, D.C., and the Association of Former Senate Aides. Sitilides holds a Master’s Degree in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University. He lives in McLean, VA with his wife, who is an attorney and businesswoman, and their four teenage sons.

George Froudakis is Professor and head of the Chemistry Department of the University of Crete. He is the author of more than 150 publications and his work has received more than 9.000 citations. He has an h-index of 49 (Goggle scholar) and he has given more than 60 invited talks in conferences and institutions. He is in the board of directors of the Greek Hydrogen Platform and a Founding member of the Greek National Science & Innovation Foundation. He has coordinated 10 European and Greek research project and participate in 16 more with a total budget of over 3Μ€. He had supervised 6 Postdocs, 10 PhD and 12 MSc thesis.

His research activities are focused on designing, modelling and investigating properties of nanostructures and porous materials for Energy, Environment and Health applications. Multi-scale computational techniques are developed in–house and used for simulating large systems. Recently, a new computational methodology for large-scale screening of materials with the use of Machine Learning algorithms (ML) was developed.

In the new production model of our economy, energy efficiency and international networking between companies in the private sector must play an important role. I am sure that the IEEG and the Cretan Energy Conference can make a positive contribution in this direction, thus contributing to the manufacture and delivery of internationally marketable Greek products and services.

I wish you the best of luck with this event!

Chairman of the Energy Exchange Group

President of the Federation of Industries of Greece

Executive Director of BioSolids SA (soil improvement products). Vice President & CEO of Savvy Can – Hellenic Metal Packaging SA.  Shareholder of National Can Hellas SA. Member of the General Council of the Bank of Greece. Member of the Managing Committee of the Athens Stock Exchange.  C Deputy Chairman of the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE). Secretary of the Greek Competitiveness Council. Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Production – Industry Roundtable for Growth. Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Business Parks (HELABP). Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Business and Cultural Development Centre (KEPA).  Member of the Board of Directors of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI).  Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of International Relations. Member of the Advisory Committee of Delphi Economic Forum.

Academic qualifications

ΜΒΑ from the University of Stirling (UK). BSc in Business Studies & Economics from the University of Surrey (RIHE). Certified Lead Assessor for BSEN ISO systems from the Scottish Quality Management Center of the University of Stirling. INSEAD Executive Education Program (Negotiation Dynamics & Strategic Management). International Federation of Purchasing & Supply Management – Certificate in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.

Mr. Savvakis speaks English and Italian.

Antonis Marinos was born in Athens in 1973. After completing basic education, he was admitted to the National Technical University of Athens at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, from which he obtained the Diploma in Engineering in 1998. After completing his military service as a Reserve Second Lieutenant of Communications, he began a PhD Thesis at the Medical School of Athens on Artificial Intelligence, and in particular on Experienced Systems of Automatic Diagnosis. He holds an MBA degree, as well as a certified Project Manager Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.

His working career began as an editor of a periodical in Athens in the field of Informatics, Computers and Multimedia since 1993, with numerous articles, tests and presentations on ICT, until 1998. He then worked as an executive of Oracle Greece, as a project manager in a technical construction company, before moving to Brussels, as an executive of the European Commission, and in particular of the General Directorate of Regional Policy, as a desk officer of the Cohesion Fund’s Transport projects for Greece.

In 2004 he returned to Greece and until 2009 he worked as a Consultant in the General Secretariats of the Ministry of Economy and Ministry for Development, having managed a variety of actions and projects, such as the design of the NSRF 2007-2013, all of the construction projects of the Cohesion Fund, “Exoikonomo” for Local Authorities, “Saving at Home”, “Allazo Klimatistiko”, the creation of the Energy Efficiency Regulation (KENAK), etc. Since 2009 he is a member of MOU S.A. as a Computer Engineer for the implementation and management of ICT work. During the period 2012-2013 he worked as an Advisor to the Minister for Maritime Affairs. Since September 2019 he has been working as Head of Office at the General Secretariat for Energy and Mineral Resources.

He was a Board Member in Asprofos S.A. and is currently a Board Member in DAPEEP S.A. He speaks fluent English, French and German. He is married and has two children.

Head of Office

Secretariat General for Energy and Mineral Resources

Ministry of Environment and Energy

MSc Electrical and IT Eng., MBA, PMP^©