Vassilis Nikolopoulos
Vassilis is the founder and CEO of Intelen and responsible for the Innovation development / transition and the creation of new advanced Services for the future markets. He graduated in 2000 as Valedictorian of 3 Engineering departments (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical) from the Polytechnic School of Dundee University (Scotland), with a 1st class 4year Scottish honours in Electrical Engineering. He also obtained a 1st class MSc and Diploma (DIC) in Control from Imperial College, certificates in Management and Marketing from LSE and after preparing the French classe preparatoire and succeeding in entrance exams he entered the military Ecole Polytechnique of Paris (X99), from where he obtained the “Majeures d’Ingenieur Diplome de l’ Ecole polytechnique” in applied mathematics and informatics, with mention “Honorable”. He is working for a PhD at the Multimedia Technology Laboratory of NTUA in the domain of Optimal Knowledge Engineering, Energy ICT and hypercubic KDD Fusion. He has also worked for big multinational companies as an IT Consultant, Chief Innovation Officer, Innovative Business Development Engineer and Project manager in big EU commercial and R&D projects. With his patented algorithm in web energy data mining, he won the 2nd Greek National Innovation Prize from OTENET in 2007 and this gave him the Best New entry Scientist in Greece from the STATUS Magazine - Men of the Year 2007. He believes that changing the environmental habits in one’s country, using modern ICT philosophy, digital services and Social Networking is a matter of changing our approach. He has numerous Conference, Journal and Technical publications, three National Patents in Energy ICT, one Book and various speeches regarding Innovation , Energy ICT and IT services management in important events. He is a member of TEE, IEE, IEEE, BCS, IFAC, SEE and speaks fluently English, French, Spanish and Greek. Recently in 2010, Guidewire Group (USA) and Red herring (USA) short-listed Intelen as one of the top-100 innovative start-ups worldwide.
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