Chainlink Labs

Senior Solution Architect MENA | Banking & Capital Markets 

SettleMint

SettleMint is the Blockchain Transformation Company that connects the dots between people, processes and technology to accelerate value creation with blockchain. It enables enterprises to easily and rapidly build and integrate blockchain applications, while empowering teams with the skills, knowledge, methodologies, guidance and ongoing support they need

Senior Blockchain Solution Architect in EMEA

Blockchain Solution Architect in MENA

Sprynt

Enabling dApps to accept web3 payments from any chain removing the hassle for users to bridge funds.

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Deloitte

Manager in Trade Automation in the global trade advisory team and blockchain lead in MENA
•	Product Manager leading our trade automation tools: Automating customs classification using AI/RPA; Digitalisation of the issuance/transfer/verification of the Certificate of Origin using blockchain technology;
•	Advising exporters/importers on streamlining supply chain processes;
•	Leading three IT implementation projects for multinational companies of 500K-1M in the MENA region

Manager Trade Automation - Blockchain Lead for Trade in the Middle East

Focusing on trade automation and blockchain for Customs/Trade/VAT processes

Trade Automation Exp. Senior Consultant

o Co-leading the blockchain practice within Deloitte Belgium
o Manage the development of Proof-of-Concept (PoC)
o Product owner of 2 PoCs on the digitalization of excise stamps and the documentary evidence for EU VAT exemption;
 o Keynotes, awareness sessions, workshops, deep-dives on
blockchain technology, focus in supply chain and the opportunities from a Tax & Legal perspective
o Conduct blockchain course trainings on blockchain in EMEA

Senior Consultant

o Consultant in the global trade advisory (GTA) team and blockchain lead in global trade and vat;
o Ongoing assistance with customs and trade compliance for multiple large companies;
o Advising on and implementing system integrations on blockchain and SAP Global Trade System;

Consultant

Easyexports

Fintech industry (supply chain and banking services)
•	Handling the business Development of our platform and the customer acquisition (20% growth in the last 6 months);
•	Development of Trade finance POC on blockchain technology; 
•	Successfully Identifying and capturing business requirements, and translate them into specific solutions using blockchain technology;
•	Creating and developing the business plan and planning financial forecasts;

Easyexports, a B2B web platform that connects exporters/buyers and insurance companies in international trade through a decentralised network. Using blockchain technologies, all communication between these parties are direct and do not pass through a specific central entity. 
Easyexports becomes the toolkit for the exporters and buyers in international trade helping them receive the most efficient leads (based on information around products, location, capacity, certificates, financials) and trade in a safe and transparent environment.
www.easyexports.eu
Launched the beta version in October 2016.

Product Manager, Co-founder

European Economic and Social Committee

o	Follow-up of EESC study groups (especially on Digital Single Market), namely by drafting briefings papers and summaries, using Dynamics Customer Relationship Manager (CRM);
o	Assisting EESC members to prepare important hearings and conferences on topics such as the 7TH Framework programme on R&D, Social enterprise, ICT Industry; 
o	Responsible of the social media at the INT section, use of Tweetdeck and Google Analytics; 
o	Successfully initiated and coordinated a conference on “The Challenge of Climate Migration; a EU perspective” with 250 participants and 6 high-level speakers (UNHCR, IOM, EC, EP, EEAS, CLIMates); copywriting and setting the digital marketing campaign of the conference.
o	Successfully coordinated a two-day conference on “Responsible Research & Innovation” with 280 participants;

Consultant INT section (Single Market, Production, Consumption)

Steficon S.A.

Trainee as a Junior Account Manager and Copywriter:
o	Active member of the Client service team, B2B services;
o	Participating in the development of new, integrated communication services; Involved in brand & digital marketing campaigns for Bulldog Gin, Superfast Ferries, Golden Cargo, NN (former ING), National Greek Gallery;

Junior Account Manager

AIESEC in Louvain-La-Neuve

o	Facilitating international internships with leading companies including Microsoft, ING and Toyota
o	Organizing leadership conferences and the annual AIESEC job fair 
o      Organizing information sessions for prospective interns

Team Leader

On a mission to accelerate blockchain adoption in banking and capital markets. 

Athina Stantzos

Consulting and assistance in entering an international market, to a startup venture  focused on automated digital distribution channels (B2B, DTC) for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and distributors.

Research & Biz Development (automated FMCG distribution)

Modal <> AI

Modal AI develops a core Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Technology that enables guiding, overseeing and explaining human and technical actions, to support compliance, quality and reduced human error.

Founder

Intel Corporation

Lead KRR expert, established symbolic KRR choices within Intel's cognitive computing program

Senior Research Scientist, Intel's Strategic Technology Group

Melabev

Cognitive Exercising Gamification R&D for persons with moderate dementia / altzheimer

-	Lead UIX and Gamification R&D of a team of domain experts, including a scientific medical adviser (MD, PhD), occupational therapist, and gerontologist
-	Analyzed and Modeled, in collaboration with the team, Domain of Activities of Daily Living
-	Prototyped hands-on 20 cognitive exercising game screens using HTML5, JavaScript-based game engine, with about 20 persons with moderate to more severe dementia in the loop

Technical R&D Lead

Goal-Oriented Solutions

Aligning Business Goals and Software Solutions. Scroll down to Projects linked to this position.

(selected projects) 

-	Know-how mapping: Researched novel KRR-based technology to represent, capture and analyze engineering know-how in application domains. 
-	Risk management in Open Source Software: Researched State of the art in goal-oriented knowledge-based approaches for risk management in general and for open-source software in particular.
-	Data privacy for consumers: for a startup client of JBSTeck, an information development company, analyzed, mapped out, and distilled 33+ technological approaches to the positioning and development of new products and services in the consumer data privacy space.

Principal, Business & System Analyst, System Architect, Researcher

University of Toronto

* Teaching assistance for courses: Designing Information Systems and Information Systems for Knowledge Management (for several years)
* Lectured on goal-oriented software design for dealing with Accessibility during web user interface design 
* Literature review for information system design and knowledge management courses 
* Developed course material on Goal-oriented methods for dealing with Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), and delivered lectures to master’s students (for several years)
* Designed exams for graduate students, and graded assignments and exams submissions
* Developed Microsoft Excel based analysis tool to support the Goal and Scenario-oriented Non-Functional Requirements Development method, I had developed for Siemens Corporate Research. The tool was written in VB.NET as a plug-in to Microsoft Excel 2007

Research Associate

* Contributed to the development of an object-oriented analysis method and information models for the world –wide insurance industry, with a focus on business process and task management
* Consulted IBM Portsmouth in relation to business process and work flow management
* Developed educational material, and taught course to members of the technical Information Architecture staff at Generali Insurance Austria and Germany

Insurance Application Architecture Researcher, Consultant

* Integrated IBM workflow management with IBM insurance application architecture
* Contributed to ISO9000 Advisory product add-on to IBM workflow management product
* Experimented with advanced technologies to improve labs processes and products
* Tested multi-platform, multi-protocol workflow product on OS/2 and IBM AIX
* Installed, maintained, and administered heterogeneous networks, servers and individual development environments for 160 in-house software developers

Software Engineer

Softel - an IBM Established Company

Promoted high-volume Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system at CeBIT, Germany’s largest computer exhibition

Strategic Networking

Founder at Modal <> AI

Modal<>AI develops a novel symbolic AI based creator tool to describe and oversee human-machine actions.  With Modal<>AI's technology operations can cost-effectively automate compliance and quality, in particular, in unpredictable work domains, thereby significantly reducing error, rework and cost.

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Athina Stantzos

Daniel Gross, PhD

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