The Greek Chapter document summarizes the mission and activities of CEO Clubs Greece, a membership organization for CEOs and business leaders. Its mission is to inspire and educate leaders through friendship and unconventional thinking. It provides a forum for collaboration and hosts events like forums, circles, and social gatherings to foster learning, innovation, and business opportunities. Members represent a variety of sectors and company sizes. Events feature distinguished speakers on topics of interest and discussions on business challenges and strategies.

1. Greek Chapter

2. Inspiring Leaders
Our Mission:
The primary purpose of CEO Clubs Greece is to inspire and educate CEOs
and business leaders within an atmosphere of friendship and
unconventional thinking. To that end, we create a nurturing and inspiring
environment for CEOs and business leaders who are dedicated to improving
the quality of their life and enterprise through the power of shared
experience and personal growth.
As a catalyst for entrepreneurial and leadership development, the Club
provides a forum for fostering collaborative sustainability efforts amongst
businesses.
CEO Clubs Greece is proud to be a member of the largest worldwide
membership association of CEOs with chapters worldwide.

3. Values
 Optimistic view point: “Playing to win”
rather than “playing not to lose”
 Inspiring: For both personal and professional
growth
 Thinking out of the box: Unconventional and
forward thinking themes/speakers of events
 Exclusivity: Only to CEOs and Business
leaders
 Openness/Trust: An atmosphere of
friendship
 Sharing: Gaining insights from each other
 Extroversion: To go beyond geographical
and personal boundaries

4. Benefits of Membership
 Stay Current and Avoid Pitfalls with timely knowledge about best/next
practices – and equally important insights into “worst practices” or
“lessons learned;
 Improve Individual Effectiveness with an oasis from that pressure cooker
environment where you can spend some quality time on their own
personal and professional development
 Have the Power of 100 (y100) expanding your knowledge and wisdom
by a factor of the number of your peers
 Accelerate Innovation having a broad set of “data points” to connect
in order to achieve breakthrough ideas
 Reduce Costs with less reliance on consultants and ready access to
resources already vetted by others, and the knowledge to adopt best
practices more quickly
 Doing business while learning and having fun

5. Members’ Companies

6. Members’ Statistics*
o 10 Different Sectors
Services, Consumer & Technology sectors are the leaders
o 5,422,500,000 € Turnover
42% of the companies exceed 50 million Euros
o More than 21,245 employees
36% of the companies exceed 150 employees
o Professional CEOs vs Entrepreneurs
Professional CEOs lead by 80%
* Last updated: May 28, 2014

7. Our Events
Forumsare open both to members and for just once, to guest CEOs. They
feature speakers on a topic of interest to CEOs and followed by a roundtable
discussion or a workshop
Circlesare accessed exclusively by CEO Clubs members.
Participation is limited to a max of 35 in order to facilitate open discussions among
all members. A business leader ignited a discussion on a hot topic and then
participant CEOs get to debate on it
Social events are organized for CEO Clubs members as well as their families.
They can be either dinners, parties, day trips, weekends etc
OpenTuesday is a social gathering exclusively for its members.
The event takes place at CEO Clubs premises every first Tuesday of the month

8. 12th Forum - “The New World’s Bets”
March 20, 2014
Hotel Pentelikon PART I: “Managing Paradoxes”
Whatever you call it, we all need to learn to get comfortable with
opposing ideas, pressures and options — and know we don't get
to pick either one or the other. Our distinguished panel:
 Dimitris Vidakis, CEO, Korres
 Panagiotis Kambouroglou, CEO, ICTS
 Eleni G. Tentou, Managing Director, Actelion Hellas
Coordinator: Konstantinos Mavros, Founder & Managing Director,
Seed Innovative
PART II: “Building a strong organizational culture”
If culture is so important, why do companies manage it as an
afterthought?
We conclude that many executives apply change-management
models that tack culture onto the end of a process, and that they
focus too much on top-down communication and not enough on
identifying specific. Our distinguished panel:
 Terry Seremetis, Managing Director, MARS Hellas
 Yiannis Vlontzos, Managing Director, Merck Hellas
 Afroditi Arvaniti, General Manager, NJV Athens Plaza
Coordinator: Christina Alevizou, Country Manager, TNT
Recent Forums

9. 13th Forum - “Corporate Disconnect”
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Hotel Pentelikon Strategy execution is regularly cited by CEOs as a top
priority and as fierce as it has been in recent years.
However, bridging the gap between strategy and
results is a real challenge—and this is because there is
Corporate Disconnect. Recent research proves that
CEOs consistently rate all strategy implementation
success factors at their company in a more positive
light than the rest of the organization.
Key Note Speaker: Tim Connor, Global Speaker,
Trainer & Best-selling Author
Panel Discussion with innovative and distinguished
CEOs
o Makis Kosmatos, Managing Director of J&J Hellas
o Peggy Antonakou, Managing Director of Microsoft
Hellas
o Haseeb Ahmad, Managing Director of MSD
Greece, Cyprus & Malta
Coordinator: Georgia Kartsanis, President of CEO
Clubs Greece
Recent Forums

10. Recent Circles
January 20, 2014
“2014 Global Financial Markets & Greece”
Achilles Macris, Financial Investor
February 24, 2014
“Managing Internal Stakeholders”
Michael Economakis,
Executive Vice Chairman – A.G Leventis Group Nigeria
April 18, 2014
“Grow the business protecting your cash flow”
Makis Tzeis
Managing Director, Atradius Credit Insurance
N.V. / Hellenic branch
May 19, 2014
“Facing the real challenge; Stability in the tax framework”
Panos Papazoglou, Managing Partner EY
Stephanos Mitsios, Head of Tax EY
September 22, 2014
“YOU & YOURS“
Dr Thanos Askitis, Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Psychiatrist Professor @ the
University of Athens, President of the Institute of Mental & Sexual Health
November 19, 2014
“From CSR to Sustainable Business“
Aris Vrettos, Director The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability
Programme, Director of Open Programmes, University of Cambridge
Institute for Sustainability Leadership

11. Recent Social Events

12. Open Tuesdays

13. You do not have to be
alone at the top!
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