Akis Markatos

Mr. Markatos has been with Attica Ventures since March 2004.
For the 6 years prior to that he was General Manager and Managing Director of Eurocom Expertise (a member of the Intracom Group), a project management and consultancy firm specialised in telecommunications and Internet service development and mobile telephony.
He has also served as head of the research programmes at the IT and Telecommunications Department of the University of Athens and Director of the Wolfson Unit at University College London working on technology transfer from the university to industry in the optical fibre communications sector.
He has also served as a consultant to the European Commission (DG XIII) on issues of telecom market deregulation, as well as for the most important telecom operators in Europe (BT, France Telecom, Telenor, Deutsche Telecom, Telefonica, etc.) on related matters.
He has over 15 years experience in the telecom and Internet market working with the largest companies in those fields in Greece and abroad.
He is a graduate of the Physics Department of the University of Athens and holds a postgraduate degree in Modern and Applied Optics from Reading University and extensive research experience with 22 publications on telecom issues and in particular on telecommunications techno-economics.