Do leaders create nice companies or do companies “make” leaders? Within the case of Spyros Theodoropoulos, the self-made businessman who swept the BSE elections by successful with 76% towards the “iron girl” of the pharmaceutical trade Iulia Tseti, the reply isn’t clear lower.
Spyros Theodoropoulos and “collectively”
And it’s because the brand new president of the nation’s largest employer, whose member firms make use of 228,000 staff, continues to “produce” giant portions, however “collectively” has at all times been the motive force of creation.
“Collectively we obtain extra” was additionally the motto of this 12 months’s common meeting of the BSE and because it appears Spyros Theodoropoulos now has the chance to place inclusion into observe on the highest and holistic degree.
In a very unprecedented process for the BSE, after polls had been arrange for the primary time within the over-hundred-year historical past of the Affiliation, Mr. Theodoropoulos obtained 424 votes towards Mrs. Tseti’s 133, whereas the participations broke information. Within the breaking of “traditions” one can say that the objections from Ms. Tseti in the course of the counting, which delayed the procedures, though in the long run every part went easily, had been included.
In his first assertion as president of SEV, Mr. Theodoropoulos emphasised:
“My election to the place of the President of the BSE is a superb honor for me. I wish to thank all of the members who entrusted me with the continuation of the work of our Affiliation. For 21 years I’ve served SEV as an lively member of the Board, and now, from the place of President, I really feel a good better accountability to proceed the very profitable course of our Affiliation. I commit, along with the newly elected members of our Board of Administrators, to offer all our energy, with the goal of strengthening entrepreneurship, for the advantage of workers, companies, our members and the Greek financial system as an entire”.
The brand new BSE Board of Administrators and the position of Rania Ekaterinari
Subsequent to Mr. Theodoropoulos within the new Board of Administrators of the Affiliation shall be vice-presidents Eftichis Vassilakis of Aegean Airways, Andreas Siamisiis from Helleniq Vitality and Mrs. Rania Aikaterinari from ELVALHALCOR.
The brand new president of the historic employer has acknowledged that if elected, he’ll nominate Ms. Aikaterinari to imagine the place of president of the Government Committee that shall be fashioned by resolution of the Board of Administrators.
The Government Committee has an advisory position in all issues that belong to the competence of the chairman of the Board of Administrators.
As well as, Mrs. Alexandra Papalexopoulou from the TITAN group, sister of the outgoing president, Dimitris Papalexopoulos, will maintain the place of Secretary Normal within the new Board, whereas Markos Veremis from Upstream was elected as treasurer of the Board.
It needs to be famous that the candidates for the positions of the three vice-presidents, the Normal Secretary of the Affiliation and the Treasurer of the Board had no opponent.
The outdated guard, the “new blood” and the unelected
So far as the 14 elected positions of the “abnormal member” of the Board of Administrators are involved, 24 nominations had been submitted, therefore there was a “battle”.
The winners had been the present members of the Board, occupying 9 of the 14 positions, whereas the remaining 5 are the brand new “blood” of the Affiliation, whose presence will contribute to its renewal.
Particularly, the next had been elected alphabetically as abnormal members of the brand new BOD of SEV:
Peggy Antonakou, common supervisor of Google Southeast Europe,
Kallinikos Kallinikos Government Vice President of Goldair Group,
Naya Kalogeraki Chief Working Officer at Coca-Cola HBC,
Ioannis Karagiannis, president of Olympia Group,
Nikos Kavkas president and managing director of Kavkas,
Panos Kyriakopoulos (Golden Information),
Philippa Michalis, CEO of NN Hellas,
Aristotelis Panteliadis president and CEO of METRO AEBE,
Georgios Peristeris, president and CEO of the GEK TERNA group,
Kyriakos Sambatakakis president and CEO of Accenture,
Menelaos Tasopoulos CEO of Papoutsanis,
Theodoros Tryfon vice chairman and co-managing director of the ELPEN group,
Evangelos Chrysafis high govt of METLEN Vitality & Metals / Mytileneos, who takes the place of Evangelos Mytileneos in SEV, because the latter had not utilized,
Vassilis Psaltis CEO of Alpha Financial institution.
Amongst those that got here to the electoral area for the primary time, the pharmaceutical industrialist Dimitris Giannakopoulos was not elected chairman of the Board of Administrators. and managing director of the VIANEX firm, Lambros Papakonstantinou of Very best Holdings, the brand new managing director of OTE Konstantinos Nebis rather than Mr. Michalis Chamaz who’s leaving OTE and Efi Koutsourelis, vice chairman of Quest Holdings.
Additionally, the next didn’t be elected to the brand new Board of Administrators: Kostas Vamvakas (VK Premium), Paris Gravouniotis (Komotini Paper), Matina Koiliari (SABO), Petros Mantas (PASEVIPE), Maria Paschalidou (Grantex) and Dimitris Samaras (Samaras & Associates – Consultants) Engineers).
After the completion of the work of the Normal Meeting of the BSE, Mr. Dimitris Papalexopoulos acknowledged:
“I’m grateful for the chance to serve BSE as President.
Right now BSE is larger and stronger. It has extra members, extra areas of motion and an even bigger footprint in important dimensions of financial life. BSE is at its core an impartial, open, multi-collective group, with a continuing renewal of individuals and concepts. I want the newly elected Board of Administrators to proceed the regular upward trajectory of our Affiliation, within the complicated and continually altering enterprise atmosphere.”
The priorities of the brand new president
Clearly in favor of fixing the manufacturing mannequin – “75% of GDP can’t come from consumption and 25% from manufacturing” he has declared – Mr. Theodoropoulos will deal with:
– To conclude “a brand new social contract” between employers and staff that “will result in simplified labor legal guidelines, higher pay for staff and extra flexibility for companies.”
– To take away the disincentives for licensing and zoning with the intention to make investments.
– Within the daring reorganization within the BSE during which extra consideration shall be paid to small and medium enterprises.
– In a greater framework of trade help from the federal government for the event of enterprise and strengthening of start-ups.
– To the contribution of BSE via its participation within the corresponding European physique, in order that Europe and the European financial system turn into aggressive once more.
On this context, extra stress is anticipated to be exerted on the federal government, amongst different issues, to create a Ministry of Trade, cut back the non-wage prices of companies and reopen technical faculties within the nation, as there’s a big scarcity of craftsmen for manufacturing.
Who’s the brand new president of SEV?
For 21 years a member of the Board of Administrators of SEB, of which the final 10 as Vice President with accountability for labor issues, the 67-year-old Spyros Theodoropoulos is actually self-made, together with his biggest enterprise achievement (so far) being the creation of Chipita, the corporate which taught the entire world to eat packaged croissants, which it offered to the American Mondelez in 2021 for $2 billion.
Right now he’s the top and foremost shareholder of the top of the Bespoke SGA Holdings group, whose umbrella contains the enduring chocolate manufacturing facility ION, Brothers I. Kotsiopoulos, Nikas, Ambrosia, Allantika Makedonia and Greek Juices, whereas not too long ago via ION additionally purchased the Lavdas sweet manufacturing facility. He additionally holds a minority stake in Mevgal and leads Woderplant, the corporate that produces hydroponic tomatoes in Greece.
He has been the vice chairman of HEXA and a member of the Boards of Administrators of Titan, Ethniki and PPC. He’s married to journalist Lina Druga.
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