The department has established connections with the leading industry that is active in Cyprus. We have formed an Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) with representatives of major technology players in the area of Computer Science and Engineering. Together with the IAB we organize events where we have the opportunity to exchange ideas and receive feedback from the local industry related to our research and educational activities. The members of the IAB are presented below.
Vanessa works closely with Enterprise organizations across Greece, Cyprus, and Malta to help them rethink the employee experience and flexible work. She focuses on enabling large companies drive employee productivity and collaboration. She has been with Microsoft for 12 years and previously she was responsible for the education engagements across the 3 countries. Prior to Microsoft, she worked at Computacenter in London in pre-sales.
She holds an MSc in Business Systems Analysis and Design from City University and a BSc from the National University of Athens in Informatics and Telecommunications. She lives with her family in Nicosia.
Argyris is the founder of Foody, the food ordering platform in Cyprus. Foody was acquired in 2019 by Delivery Hero, the global leader in the industry. Argyris is a hard working, fast learning, do-er. He is into building teams and likes to focus on Culture & Product. Previously, he held management roles across different organizations, including General Manager of Waste Management & Recycling company, Group Marketing Manager in one of the top five Consumer Goods companies in Cyprus, project manager for the Creation of first Sorting plants for Municipal waste in Cyprus, and executed a full Operational restructuring of two companies which increased profitability 2.5x. He holds an MBA, Major in Entrepreneurship from the Columbia Business School and MSc in Management Science from the Warwick Business School.
Dr. Tasos Kounoudes is a technology entrepreneur with more than twenty years of industrial experience in the development and implementation of large scale technology projects across Europe. He is the co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of SignalGeneriX, a leading Cypriot technology company which focuses on the design and development of innovative technologies and high-end electronics systems for a wide range of international clients. Tasos holds a PhD in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from Imperial College, UK and an M.Eng. in Computer Engineering and Informatics from University of Patras, Greece. He is the author of three patents and the author/co-author of more than sixty scientific publications including book chapters, peer reviewed journal papers and international conference papers in his domain of expertise.
Elena studied Computer Science at University of Cyprus and University of Manchester. She is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cocoon Creations, an award-winning agency focusing on mobile platforms design, development, and consultation. Up to now through Cocoon Creations she has worked with more than 70 international clients coming from the United States, United Kingdom, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, and Australia. Before founding Cocoon Creations, she worked for many years in the IT sector of the hospitality business. She was an executive Board Member of Cypriot Enterprise Link and served as the team lead for hack {cyprus}, the biggest Cypriot online community of technologists and the first hackathon organizers in Cyprus. She is in love with technology, everything Apple, rock music, band t-shirts and her high heels.