Dr. Aristotelis Karytinos is the Chief Executive Officer of NBG Pangaea REIC a leading real estate investment company in the region with assets of € 1.7 bn in Greece, Italy and SEE. He possesses long standing experience in investment and banking through key positions both in the public and the private sectors. His experience spans over the retail and corporate lines of business, having set up one of the most successful private mortgage lending units in Greece as well as a significant number of investment and service providing companies in the real estate sector, both in Greece and Central and Southeastern Europe. Prior to his current position Dr. Karytinos was for 6 years the General Manager - Real Estate of the National Bank of Greece Group. Before joining the NBG Group, he held senior positions within Eurobank EFG Group, including Head of Group Real Estate, Head of Mortgage Lending and CEO of Eurobank Properties REIC, a company which he led into a successful IPO in 2006 and a subsequent rights issue in 2007, raising in total approximately €450 m. In the past, he served for several years as senior manager in companies of the public and private sector. Aristotelis Karytinos holds a Doctorate (PhD) in Finance from the University of Warwick, UK and is a Fellow of RICS. He was a lecturer at the post graduate real estate programme of the Athens University of Economics and Business and has published a significant number of articles in the Greek financial and real estate specific press as well a number of academic papers.