Xenios Thrasyvoulou

Current

• Founder and CEO at PeoplePerHour.com

Past

• Founder, Non-exec Director at Arcarnus

Education

• University of Cambridge
• Harvard Business School

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s Summary

Entrepreneur involved in a number of startups as founder and CEO.

Most recent venture is www.peopleperhour.com - a new generation online marketplace matching buyers and sellers of servces.

Prior experience includes: travel operator, luxury concierge service, and set-up of a boutique Private Equity fund.

Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s Specialties:

- Creating and building new ventures
- Strategic positioning: undestanding a competitive landscape and helping shape a company's competitive edge and staregy in that landscape
- Fund raising: raised over £2m in start-up venture funding
- Defining the big picture & direction of businesses
- How to bootsrap a start-up
- Financial modelling & risk management: identifying KPIs and key variables that affect them in a busisiness model

Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s Experience

• Founder and CEO

  PeoplePerHour.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  Online marketplace for freelance services. The site matches Buyers of services with Providers from all over the world, allowing companies (predominatly SME's) to out-source work for a substantial cost-saving and tap into internation skills and rates arbitrage

• Founder, Non-exec Director

  Arcarnus

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  October 2003 — September 2007 (4 years)

  Founder of Arcarnus - boutique Lifestyle Management business . As CEO from 2003 - 2007, led the company through international expansion by adopting a franchsing growth model. Remain as non-exec Director

Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s Education

• University of Cambridge

  BA/Meng , Engineering , 1998 — 2002

• Harvard Business School

  Executive Eductation , Business

Additional Information

Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s Websites:

• My Company

Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, Web, start-ups, non-exec positions in internet companies Skiing, boxing, travelling, reading, art

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