Technology · Cybersecurity · Operations
Governance · Security · Risk · Resilience
A business-oriented technology, cybersecurity and operations leader combining people management, service delivery, commercial ownership, secure systems and executive-level accountability.
17+ years progressing from hands-on engineering and team leadership to IT management, operational responsibility, commercial portfolio ownership and multinational defence R&D leadership.
Professional Profile
My career combines established technology and operational leadership with advanced cybersecurity, secure architecture, risk-based control alignment and defence-programme leadership.
People leadership, IT operations, service delivery, workforce planning, budgets and operational performance.
Opportunity capture, requirements, bids, costing, negotiation, mobilisation, renewals and account growth.
Secure architecture, security-by-design, risk oversight, control alignment and high-assurance engineering.
COO-level operational responsibility, executive reporting and multinational programme delivery.
Core Capabilities
The value lies in connecting people, technology, security, commercial commitments and operational outcomes within one accountable leadership mandate.
Functional IT management, team leadership, ITSM, SLA governance, service continuity, RCA, change control, escalation governance and resource allocation.
Requirements shaping, RFP/RFQ response, costing, forecasting, contract mobilisation, delivery performance, renewals and customer growth.
Technology governance, cybersecurity governance, GRC, risk visibility, operational resilience, control readiness and senior stakeholder communication.
Secure systems engineering, security-by-design, defence-in-depth, secure SDLC and multinational high-assurance programme coordination.
Where I Add Value
Leadership roles requiring operational ownership, governance, risk, resilience and technically credible decision-making.
Experience across banking, telecom, public-sector, aviation, retail, diplomatic and other high-trust contexts.
Support for founders and leadership teams preparing for enterprise customers, due diligence, regulation and stronger resilience expectations.
Career Progression
Added advanced cybersecurity specialisation, secure systems engineering and risk-based control alignment to an established management background. Leads technical and work-package responsibilities across multinational defence R&D programmes, coordinating partner inputs, milestones, dependencies, risks and formal deliverables.
Progressed through engineering, team leadership, project and service-delivery management into functional IT management and executive operations. Managed approximately 20–50 professionals across multidisciplinary teams and delivery environments and held end-to-end responsibility for up to 20 concurrent enterprise contracts across operations, SLAs, bids, budgets, mobilisation, renewals and customer outcomes.
Education & Credentials
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Ranked first in class and delivered the graduation oath as top-ranked graduate.
Hellenic Open University. Foundation across systems, software, infrastructure, cybersecurity and information security management.
Practical offensive security credibility supporting adversarial thinking, technical challenge and risk-based decisions.
Contact
Based in Athens, Greece. Open to selected discussions with recruiters, leadership teams and founders across technology governance, cybersecurity, operations, risk and resilience.