Bio

Giorgos has over 13 years of cumulative experience at senior management levels in the Financial Services sector, covering in particular regulatory risk advisory, financial crime (AML & CFT), regulatory compliance, internal audits, AML risk assessments and development of regulatory technology (RegTech) solutions. Also, he has considerable experience at international and corporate banking. He is currently the Group Chief AML Officer for a Private Group of Companies that includes ICC Intercertus, Axios and Pen Hill Wealth Advisors. Also, he serves as Member of the Advisory Board for Identomat. Prior to his current role, he was a Senior Manager of the Regulatory Risk team at Deloitte Risk Advisory Department, specializing in Regulatory Compliance and AML related matters, during which he also served as Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLCO) for Deloitte Investment Services (DIS). Before Deloitte Giorgos was a Manager of the Risk & Quality team at PwC where he founded and led the Central Compliance Services (CCS) team, a centralized team of 6 plus Compliance Officers (CO) who were responsible for the establishment of procedures for customer due diligence, risk and compliance issues and money laundering policies. During his PwC tenure, he was the main point of contact for the regulatory authorities, and he successfully organized, supervised, and coordinated the monitoring visits and regulatory reporting requirements. He was also in charge of internal seminars and invited as an expert to external seminars. He gained significant experience in regulatory technology systems and software by leading related internal processes. Before PWC, Giorgos spent more than six years with Barclays Bank. He was actively involved in managing relationships of corporate service providers and international HNW and corporate clients from CIS, Russia, Middle East and Asia. He established a strong track record on servicing such clients, managing relationships, increasing sales and revenues, improving client retention and growing the bank’s local and international client portfolio. He simultaneously built and developed significant knowledge on all the risk management, regulatory, corporate governance and credit risk policies and procedures of a global organization like Barclays.