Αthens, September 11, 2019 – Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (“OTE S.A.” or the “Company”) announces that on September 10, 2019, the Company's Board of Directors elected Messers. Dimitrios Georgoutsos and Vasilis Vassalos, as non-executive members of the Board of Directors, in replacement of the resigned non-executive member Ms. Vasiliki Kouforizou and Mr. Panagiotis Skevofylax, accordingly, for the rest of their tenure,  namely until the date of the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting of year 2021.

CVs

CV of Mr. D.Georgoutsos

Mr. Dimitris Georgoutsos is Professor of Finance at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has taught at the Trinity College of the University of Cambridge and the University of Essex, and has worked as an economist in the Bank of Greece. He has been a consultant in portfolio investment companies and employed in the Ministry of Finance as a member of a working group on taxation of financial instruments and stability of the banking sector. Additionally, he has been an elected Council member at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Mr. Georgoutsos specializes in the areas of Financial Risk Management and International Finance. He has published articles in international academic journals and two books on Taxation of Financial Instruments and on Bank Management.

Mr. Georgoutsos is a graduate of the University of Athens (B.A. in Economics), the London School of Economics (M.Sc. in Economics) and the University of Essex (Ph.D. in Economics).

CV of Mr. V. Vassalos

Mr. Vasilis Vassalos is Professor of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is the author of over 70 research publications and two US patents and the Principal Investigator for many projects in the areas of Big Data Management, Medical ICT, Machine Learning, and Internet Technology. Professor Vassalos' experience includes founding the software company Enosys Software (acquired by BEA Systems) and being the Chief Data Scientist for two international technology companies. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Observatory of the Greek Information Society, the Stakeholder Board of the FET Flagship «Human Brain Project» and the Scientific Committee on Telecommunications of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. For the past 15 years he has been advising, consulting and collaborating with the public sector and industry, and mentoring and investing in startups.

Professor Vassalos has been an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business in NYU, and a Visiting Professor at EPFL and UCSD.

He received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.  

The announcement is issued as a Regulated Information, in accordance with Law 3556/2007, [article 3, par. 1 (k) and article 21] and Regulation No 596/2014 (article 17) of the European Parliament and of the Council on market abuse.