Vassilis Antoniades
Vassilis Antoniades is a Senior Partner and Managing Director, leading the financial services sector for Central Europe and the Middle East.
Vassilis has been involved in the build-up of BCG Athens since early 2003 and led a number of key assignments in the region and globally.
Prior to joining BCG, Vassilis served as an investment banker in New York and London, involved in IPO and M&A activity in North America and Europe.
His twenty-year long experience among other things encompasses the following: Transforming organizations especially in the post financial crisis era. His work has tackled redefining the strategy, new business model, reorganizing, deep cost cutting. In the last 5 years he has focused on the turnaround of leading banks across Europe, as well as digital transformation, leveraging BCG capabilities in data analytics, new ventures and IT to re-position banks' client offerings, business and operating model.
He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (1999) and a B.Sc. magna cum laude in International Finance from Georgetown University (1993). He has also served in the Hellenic Air Force for two years as Air Traffic Controller, both in the Araxos 127 NATO Air Base and in the Piraeus Joint Naval and Air Rescue Center.
He is a board member of the Bodossaki Foundation and of the Benaki Museum. He is an elected board member of the American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce since September 2010.
He is married with Katerina Papageorgiou and have two children.