DOXIA NIKIA HADJIVASSILIOU
President
NEIL SMITH
Vice President
Raven Russia Cyprus Ltd.
Neil Smith spent the first 15 years of his working life in London, where he initially qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Moores Rowland, before joining BDO and then after a total of 5 years in practice moved into banking, where he worked at Standard Bank, Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland, where he experienced a number of roles before specialising in structured and project finance. In 2008 Neil left London and moved to Cyprus to become Chief Operating Officer of Raven Russia Cyprus. Neil has since combined that role with Head of Structured Finance for the Raven Russia group.
ANDREAS ANDREOU
Vice President
COLUMBIA SHIPMANAGEMENT LTD.
A graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Accounting of the City University of London, Andreas holds a Masters degree, MSc in Shipping Trade and Finance, from the Cass Business School, London and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers of the United Kingdom.Having joined Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd, Cyprus in 1990, he currently holds the position of Insurance and Claims Director and is responsible for insurance related matters for all the group companies as well as ship registration and ship sale and purchase projects. Since 2008, he has also assumed responsibility for all union and ITF matters. He also held the position of Deputy Marketing Director for the five year period of 2008-2013.Outside of his responsibilities for Columbia, Andreas sits on a number of shipping related committees and boards. He is a participating Member on the Committee of the Norwegian Hull Club, a director on the board of Cyprus International Business Association, Chairman of the Marine Insurance Working Group of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber and Chairman of the Insurance and Legal Committee of Intertanko.In 2014 he was appointed as a Director of IMEC and was re-elected in same position in 2015. He participated as Observer in three rounds of IBF Central Negotiations and in local negotiations with German and Singaporean Unions.
FRIXOS SAVVIDES
HIVE MANAGMENT SERVICES LTD.
Frixos Savvides is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He started his professional career in London and returned to Cyprus in 1979. Soon after set up his own auditing firm PKF Savvides & Co Ltd, and retired from the firm in 1999 as Managing Partner, to join the Government of Cyprus as Minister of Health, a position he held until 2003. He has served in various Government Boards including Cyprus Telecommunication Authority and Chairman of Anti-drug National committee. Served in Boards of US and European listed companies, as an independent director. At present he serves as Chairman of Trust International Insurance (Cyprus) Ltd., and Deputy Chairman and member of the Board of Trust Reinsurance Bahrain. Member of the Board of Advent International Cyprus Ltd and Asia Advisory Investment Committee. Chairman of World Trade Center Cyprus and member of the Board of Lanitis Holdings Ltd.
ANDREAS PISHIAS
General Manager
MARGARITA ALEXANDROU
Assistant General Manager
PAVLOS VARNAVAS
Executive Committee Member
VALENTINOS STELIOU
Executive Committee Member
ANTOUN MASSAAD
Executive Committee Member
Cedar Rose International Services Ltd.
CEO and founder of Cedar Rose since 1997, Antoun is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Greek. Antoun has specialized in due diligence, research and data aggregation in the Middle East and North Africa since starting in this field in London in 1992. He is a Certified International Credit Professional, Member of the Institute of Export and the Chartered Institute of Credit Management. He founded Cedar Rose in the UK and later opened a branch office in Lebanon in 1999 and recently in Dubai in 2020. He now manages the company from its headquarters in Limassol, Cyprus. His personal objective is to provide the most accurate and efficient service for business intelligence and data in the region. Cedar Rose currently holds the world’s largest database of translated and transliterated company, director and shareholder information for the MENA region, searchable in Arabic and English languages. The company provides credit reports, compliance checks, conducts due diligence investigations, offers access to global business database covering over 150 million entities and supplies electronic identity verification services (KYC and KYB) to the global fin-tech industry.
KIRILL KORNEYCHUK
Executive Committee Member
ANGELINA MARKARI
Executive Committee Member
MARIOS FOTIOU
Executive Committee Member
AVANTI HYLAS 2 CYPRUS LTD.
Marios Fotiou is a space systems engineer with more than a decade of experience in satellite communications. He is a graduate of Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey and holds a Master’s degree in Spacecraft Systems and Satellite Communications from UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Over the last years he has worked in Cyprus for Avanti Communications as a lead systems engineer in several satellite missions and as the HYLAS 4 satellite programme manager and spacecraft mission director up to its successful launch from French Guiana in April 2018. Since then he has taken the role of the Managing Director of Avanti in Cyprus running a diverse team of administrative, commercial and technical personnel supporting the operations of the company in Cyprus and the Middle East. He is also serving at the technical experts committee supporting the Minister of Communications and Works on issues of national space policy, that lead the country signing up a European Cooperate State agreement with the European Space Agency in 2016.
