eBusiness & mBusiness professional - Head of Business Planning at Upstream
Greece
- Current
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- Head of Business Planning at Upstream
- Past
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- Business Development Director at Upstream
- Chief Commercial Officer at VoiceWeb SA
- Consulting at eBusiness
- CEO & General Director at Ekdotiki Hellados Printing & Publishing SA
- Founder at meet2print
- Sales & Production Manager at Ekdotiki Hellados Printing & Publishing SA
- Trainee at Grafica Maiadouro SA, Portugal
- Trainee at MAN ROLAND GmbH, Germany
- Education
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- Athens University of Economics and Business
- University of Hertfordshire
- Athens College
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Panayotis Gezerlis’s Summary
I am an eBusiness & mBusiness professional & enthusiast with sales experience and management capabilities in leading departments and organizations. I like to work in creative & entrepreneural environments, preferably in the eBusiness industry, which has been my passion since 1992.
Panayotis Gezerlis’s Specialties:
- eBusiness
- Mobile marketing
- Value Added Services
- IVRs & Speech-enabled technologies & applications
- Printing & Publishing management
- Business Development & Sales
- Strategy
- Negotiations
- Presales
- Public sector bid management
Panayotis Gezerlis’s Experience
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Head of Business Planning
Upstream
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Upstream is the leading mobile marketing company globally with sales exceeding €38 million for 2008, operations in 40 countries and offices in Athens, London, Rome, Bucharest, Toronto, Mexico City, Rio & Buenos Aires. In its 8 years of operation Upstream has worked with some of the largest brands and operators in the world including The Coca-Cola Company, Nestle, Vodafone, T-Mobile, TIM, Orange and Telefonica to name a few.
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Business Development Director
Upstream
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)
Responsible for global business development and sales in the mobile marketing business unit.
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Chief Commercial Officer
VoiceWeb SA
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — July 2008 (4 years 5 months)
A fast-growing eBusiness organisation focusing on speech and mobile applications. Responsible for business development & sales (Private & Public Sector) and marketing.
Sectors handled: Telecoms, Advertising & Marketing, Travel & Tourism, Retail, Value Added Services, Finance, Public Sector, Ticketing, Entertainment
Major Accounts handled: First Data, WIND, Vodafone, OTE, Procter & Gamble, Village Roadshow, National Bank of Greece, Upstream, PRC, InfoQuest, Ministry of Employment, Adel Saatchi & Saatchi, Alpha Bank, Greek Interurban Bus Association, etc.
Coordinating submission of proposals to public tenders & European / national funded programs. -
Consulting
eBusiness
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2003 — May 2004 (8 months)
Worked as a freelance consultant for Archetypon, one of Europe’s 500 fastest growing firms and for Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), the leading Business University of Greece.
Researched and composed business plans, academic case studies and EU projects deliverables
Sectors: eBusiness, Content Provision, eGoverment, Strategy -
CEO & General Director
Ekdotiki Hellados Printing & Publishing SA
(Printing industry)
September 1998 — May 2003 (4 years 9 months)
A firm with all print-stages production departments, 30 people staff and € 1M turnover.
General management of the company and report directly to BoD. Authorised by the stockholders to explore, negotiate and implement the company buy-out. Succeeded in the buyout, after improving the financial and production performance of the firm
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Founder
meet2print
(Internet industry)
July 2001 — February 2002 (8 months)
A B2B vertical eMarketplace for the Printing sector: printing jobs procurement, job searching, etc. The company did not begin operations, stages concluded where: business plan, initial funding from a state program, private-equity funding negotiations, development of portal.
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Sales & Production Manager
Ekdotiki Hellados Printing & Publishing SA
(Printing industry)
September 1994 — September 1995 (1 year 1 month)
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Trainee
Grafica Maiadouro SA, Portugal
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Printing industry)
July 1994 — August 1994 (2 months)
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Trainee
MAN ROLAND GmbH, Germany
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Industrial Automation industry)
June 1994 — July 1994 (2 months)
Panayotis Gezerlis’s Education
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Athens University of Economics and Business
MBA International , eBusiness , 2002 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- President of Alumni Association 2004 - 2005
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University of Hertfordshire
BSc (Hons) , Printing & Publishing Management , 1992 — 1996
Final Year Project: Development of an eMIS for Middle-Sized Printing Companies
- Activities and Societies:
- Honorary President - Watford International Student Association
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Athens College
Additional Information
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Panayotis Gezerlis’s Interests:
speargun-fishing, sailing, water-skiing, mountain-skiing, wind-surfing, volunteerism, travelling on a shoestring, diving.
Panayotis Gezerlis’s Groups:
AUEB's MBA-I Alumni Association, IEEE, IAB, eBusiness Forum
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MobileMonday -
Athens University of Economics and Business group -
Mobile Content -
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IVR World -
VAS Professional -
i-MBA Alumni -
Voice and Speech Specialists -
Telemedia-Network -
MBA International , AUEB -
Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
Panayotis Gezerlis’s Honors:
Co-author of book “Exit Strategy”, Athens University of Economics & Business, 2004.
Co-author of book “Entrepreneurship case studies”, EU Gate-To-Growth, 2005.
Author of articles in Mobile Marketing, Speech Applications, etc in sector magazines.
Panayotis Gezerlis’s Contact Settings
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