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Senior business leader with a proven track record of driving growth and transformation across the global IT landscape. With deep experience at industry leaders including AMD, Apple, Intel and Axir Consulting, I specialize in developing and executing large-scale Go-to-Market strategies across the ecosystem and value chain.

A natural influencer and strategic thinker, I excel in building high-impact external partnerships while driving cross-functional performance internally. My passion lies in leveraging emerging technologies—such as Cloud, AI, and Blockchain—to open new revenue streams and enable long-term innovation.

I bring a change-ready mindset and a hands-on leadership style, thriving in complex, fast-moving environments where innovation meets execution. 

Core expertise includes:
High-Volume Sales | Strategic Planning | Customer & Partner Relationship Management | Solution/Co-Selling | P&L and Budget Oversight | Product & Marketing Strategy | Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud) | Blockchain & AI | ERP & SCM Solutions | Channel Development | Project & Program Management | Cross-functional Team Leadership | Global Business Development

Singapore Citizen | Open to collaboration, advisory roles, and speaking opportunities in Ai, high-performance computing, cloud innovation, and emerging tech ecosystems.

Alexey Navolokin

AI isn’t upgrading house design. It’s rewriting the rulebook. Homes are no longer designed once — they’re generated, tested, optimized, and evolved by AI. Would you live there?

Layouts that adapt to your life.
Materials chosen before problems exist.
Energy, cost, light, airflow — simulated before a single brick is laid.
Blueprints are static.

AI-designed homes are alive.
This is how housing becomes faster, smarter, cheaper, and sustainable by default.
The future won’t live in houses.
Houses will think.

#AI #FutureOfLiving #PropTech #Architecture #SmartHomes #GenerativeAI #HousingInnovation via @rithy.virtual.lab

Traffic jam? BYD just flew over it. Would you use this tech?

In China, a BYD SUV stopped people mid-scroll after the driver launched a built-in roof drone—without leaving the car—to check traffic conditions ahead.

No gimmicks. No aftermarket hacks.
The Lingyuan system, co-developed by BYD × DJI, turns the vehicle into a mobile aerial platform:
+ One-touch drone launch from the roof
+ Live video streamed directly to the dashboard
+ Drone follows the car at speeds up to 54 km/h
+ Auto-returns, docks, and recharges while driving

This isn’t a concept car.
This isn’t “coming soon.”
This works today.
It’s a glimpse of what happens when automotive + robotics + consumer drones converge:
Cars don’t just drive anymore.
They see, scout, and decide.
The future of mobility isn’t only autonomous.
It’s aerially aware.

#BYD #DJI via @technology #SmartCars #FutureOfMobility #AutomotiveInnovation #ChinaTech #ADAS #AutonomousVehicles #Robotics

Most people think hobbies are a distraction from “real work”.
They’re wrong. What do you think about this DIY mini laser?

A hobby is one of the best investments you can make—for your mind and your business.

Mentally:
Hobbies put your brain into flow.
Stress drops. Focus returns. Creativity wakes up.
That’s not laziness—that’s neurological recovery.

Professionally:
Hobbies train the same muscles great businesses need:
• Experimentation without fear
• Learning through failure
• Systems thinking
• Precision and patience

New DIY Mini Laser Level Project
Perfect straight lines for walls and ceilings.

You don’t “waste time” when you’re building.
You’re training your brain to solve problems end-to-end.

People who protect time for hobbies often:
• Make sharper decisions
• Burn out less
• Spot opportunities earlier
• Turn side projects into real value
Hobbies aren’t time wasted.
They’re mental infrastructure.
Sometimes they’re just fun. Sometimes they become tools.
And sometimes… they turn into your next unfair advantage.

#Innovation #Technology via @rodaolok #DIY

Everyone thinks smartwatches were born in the 2010s. Wrong. By 40 years. Have you seen this watch?

In the early 1980s, Casio built a watch you didn’t press.
You touched it. Drew on it. Interacted with it.
No buttons.
No menus.
Just gesture input on glass — decades before iPhone, before Palm, before the web.

This wasn’t a gimmick. It was a statement:
👉 Interfaces should adapt to humans — not the other way around.

Fast-forward to today and the same idea is everywhere:
+ Touch-first smartphones
+ Gesture navigation
+ Voice and multimodal AI
+ On-device inference
+ Spatial computing and wearables

What we call “AI-native” or “natural interfaces” today…
…were already being prototyped on a wrist, in the analog era.

Most breakthrough tech doesn’t appear overnight.
It waits — until compute, software, and timing finally catch up.

Yesterday: drawing numbers on a watch face
Today: talking to LLMs, gesturing in mixed reality
Tomorrow: interfaces we don’t even notice anymore

The future isn’t invented. It’s rediscovered.

#AI #HumanComputerInteraction #Wearables #UX #TechHistory #Innovation #SmartDevices #EdgeAI #FutureOfComputing

Everyone’s talking about AI composing music. Meanwhile… mushrooms already do. Facinating?


Fungi send continuous bioelectrical signals through their mycelium — a living network that reacts to light, touch, temperature, and environmental change.

When those signals are connected to a synthesizer, each pulse becomes a note.

Change the environment → change the melody.
That’s real-time biological signal processing.
No prompts.
No training data.
Just a distributed, adaptive system responding to inputs — exactly how we want AI to behave.

Projects like Bionic and the Wires turn these signals into music, reminding us of something important: Nature figured out networks, feedback loops, and resilience long before silicon.

AI isn’t replacing biology.
It’s finally starting to learn from it.
Maybe the future of intelligence doesn’t sound like a machine…
Maybe it sounds like the forest. 🌲🎶

#AI #BiologicalIntelligence #SystemsThinking #FutureOfComputing #BioMusic #Fungi #Innovation #TechInspiration

ERGO Group AG

Achieving and sustaining operational excellence, through planning and organizational efficiency, ensuring strict ongoing adherence to quality and quantity SLAs in Policy Administration.
Member of the Operations Team responsible for the functional integration of ATE Insurance SA with ERGO Insurance SA. 
Member of the Operations Team responsible for the functional integration of DAS Insurance SA with ERGO Insurance SA.
Member of the Operations Team responsible for the functional integration of MAPFRE/EUROSOS Insurance SA with ERGO Insurance SA.

Head of Policy and Claims Administration

Customer Experience Manager 
-General CX Management of Contact Center Greece for Customer Service and First Notice of Loss (FNOL) :  Voice Channel, Non-Voice Channels, Customer-Facing Reception for Underwriting, Claims and Complaints. 
-Member of task force to analyze and design payment and transaction systems requirements for “Cash Before Cover” Auto insurance policy sales compliance and operation. 
-Member of Incident Management Team (IMT) during Greek Capital Controls 
-Designed and implemented online payment systems, utilizing DIAS codes (Greek interbank automated payment codes)  for policy payment identification purposes 
-Supervising PMO team member for the migration of the Athens Claims Department Operations to the Sofia (BG) Shared Services Center (including Claims Call Center operations, complex and express Claims adjustors’ functions and supporting systems). Ensuring project phases on track including: Quality Assurance and Compliance processes in new location. Sign off authority on final Functional Independence decision. 
-Lowered and maintained continuously for 2years and 5months, Call Center abandonment rate to meet AIG Global SLAs of <5% . 
-Liaison to Bank of Piraeus (AIG’s systemic Bank) for issues relating to  electronic Banking and negotiated AIG’s automated credit card installment facilities
-Member of the Greek Business Continuity Planning team responsible for the Customer Service functions
-Member of the Greek Risk Analysis team responsible for the Customer Service functions

CX Manager Greece

FOREIGN OFFICE Ltd

www.caron.gr - Cloud based Car Rental System.
Responsible for the overall development - business model analysis, budget, operational implementation and commercial launching strategy -  of a cloud-based  “System as a Service” Car Rental software.

Director Electronic Payments

LIKNOSS

Liknoss (ex FORTHcrs) is Greece’s largest proprietary, SaaS,  computerized ticketing and travel reservation system and electronic ticket issuing service. 
Provides the Greek Ferry Shipping industry 100% of the ticketing reservations system used by the Greek Travel Agency Network and abroad. 
Milestones
Set up all aspects of a new department as a Business Unit to handle the new service with full P&L responsibility for the unit.
Conducted business analysis and adapted all modules of FORTHcrs proprietary passenger and car ferry shipping reservation and ticketing software to handle event ticketing and online payments. 
Integrated all aspects of the new operation into the existing departmental infrastructure of centralized IT development, technical support, agency sales and client services. 
Established procedures for all related functions.
Trained personnel for back-office functions of Event Ticketing division.
Created a sales network of ticket agents and resellers including reseller commercial chains stores and travel agents (including Virgin Megastores and Carrefour Travel). 
Personally promoted and handled corporate sales of new service to producers.
Lobbied Ministry of Finance and effectively altered Greek tax laws in order to allow electronic sales of event tickets to be sold by third party resellers on the latter’s certified tax receipts, with the corresponding VAT rate of each producer.
Sourced, solicited, negotiated and acquired project specific representations of Cubic Transport for Greek Intercity Bus project (KTEL) and ACS Transport for OASA PPP projects.

Director Online Ticketing and Payment Systems,  Arts & Entertainment Ticketing Division

Ticket Hellas SA

Start-up. Designed, developed and implemented the strategic plan for introducing, electronic ticketing and electronic payment services for the live-event and entertainment industry in the Greek market.  Responsible for all aspects of the business operation. 

Designed, developed and implemented the strategic plan for introducing for the first time, electronic ticketing and electronic payment services for the live-event and entertainment industry in the Greek market.  
Developed IT proprietary ticketing system. (still used in several major Athens cinemas)
Responsible for all aspects of the business operation. Staff managed: 42
Established all operating guidelines within existing tax laws for issuing tax certified electronic tickets at the box office and remotely.
Initiated the use of nascent Eurobank and Winbank xml scripts for automated online payments 
Sold the “system-as- a-service” to all major show producers in the Greek market including concerts, live theater and cinemas.
Promoted sales of Alpha Bank Retail Banking Credit Products to potential customers bundled with our services.
Created the first reseller (agent) network for entertainment tickets in Greece by incorporating ticketing “shop- in-shops” in association with Virgin Megastores, Carrefour Travel (with Dynamic Visa) and Public Stores.

Managing Director

IDS - Information Dissemination Services

Negotiated and acquired Greek representation of SBF - Paris Stock Exchange I.T. department. Formed, participated and managed a consortium with SBF Paris Stock Exchange, SEMA Integrators Belgium, ACE (Vardinoyannis Group of Companies) and Dienekis (Tandem Greece) that took part in the Athens Stock Exchange Wide Area Network Tender. 

BRE representative in Greece (Bureau de Rapprochement des Enterprises) of EU General Directorate 23 – Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Division. Member of the European Union initiative to create a unified integrated data base, in seven languages, of all SME production within Europe.

Developed an Internet Publishing company under the brand name IDS, responsible for, among others, the City of Athens’ first online presence, The Greek Ministry of the Interior – “Kapodistrias” Re-zoning Project data base, The National Art Gallery, the Ministry of Culture. 
Negotiated exclusive contract on behalf of IBM Global Network, Greece to be the official sponsor of Athens Municipality on all on- line activities.

Managing Partner

Interbank

Established the Private Banking Department for Interbank, Greece

Manager Private Banking

BMO Bank of Montreal

Profitably managing client Investment and Loan Portfolios, handling both the investment and credit aspect of the client’s relationship.

Account Manager Private Banking

CIBC Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Managing Head Office functions: Credit, Collections, Client Service, Administration and Audit  for a 1.200 online Branch Banking Network
Staff supervised: 4 supervisors, 52 officers, 16 clerks
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Manager - Personal Banking Visa Gold Center

Head of Policy and Claims Administration at ERGO Insurance Greece

I have extensive experience in establishing new ventures, introducing them into the marketplace and managing their operation with full P&L responsibility, both as Independent Business entities, as well as Business Units in the context of larger corporate settings. These new ventures have centered on Head Office operations in Banking, in Insurance, and in Travel Services, serving large B2B physical sales-point networks (over 1.500 agencies/branches) as well as online sales channels based on “System as a Service” applications and e-payment platforms.

I developed, introduced and pioneered electronic event ticketing in Greece by establishing the the first such firm in Greece, Ticket Hellas S.A., with Call Center and online sales and online payments, as well as a B2B agent network reseller channel with real-time remote ticket issuance. This also involved getting new legislation passed. Having full P&L responsibility and signing-on the majority of Greek live entertainment and event producers, I achieved and sustained a leading market position, ultimately merging with FORTHnet S.A. , one of Greece’s major Telecoms carrier and Internet provider.
I have also incorporated electronic event ticketing into existing tourism platforms serving a Travel Agency network of 1.500 Agents.

I have directed and consulted in all aspects of core business functions, including: General Management, business infrastructure design, legal and contractual framework, IT project development and deployment, payment systems, MIS, personnel training and B2B sales networks. I have completed a Cloud based, web, SaaS, tourism application.

My philosophy: Do it right, the first time, every time, with value.
Innovation (be six months ahead of yourself), a Customer Service Culture and Empowering Staff teams, are my driving principles and my legacy from Canadian Banking.

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