Higher education, Athens
Director General of City Unity College and Chief Executive Officer of Epsilon College, in Athens. I came to higher education from information technology, co-own an IT company, and spoke at TEDxMaviliSquare in 2026.
Speaker · MaviliSquare 2026
I believe higher education should stay close to the real needs of the technology industry, and that what we teach must stay relevant to the job market. Whatever the tool, AI included, a person answers for the result.
At City Unity College, where I am Director General, my work is strategic leadership and academic partnerships across Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes in central Athens. At Epsilon College, where I have been Chief Executive Officer since July 2025, we provide postgraduate degrees for professionals, in collaboration with internationally recognised universities.
The technology side has not gone away. I co-own Datapack.net, an IT consultancy and hosting business, and I am a certified Data Protection Officer, serving in that role for a number of companies.
I spent twelve years in the IT department of City Unity College, in the end as its IT Director. As an engineer I have also worked on various projects with companies such as Microsoft, IBM, PwC and Facebook. At the National Technical University of Athens I mentored students and professionals in open-source software development.
City Unity College and Epsilon College, in Athens.
Since June 2011.
MBA, Project Management, Computer Science, Cyber Security. LLM in progress.
As IT Director of City Unity College, April 2018 to December 2023.
What I am responsible for today, and the technology background behind it.
I am Director General of City Unity College in Athens. My work is strategic leadership, academic partnerships, and making sure that what we teach stays relevant to the global job market.
I lead a higher education institution that specialises in postgraduate degrees for professionals who want to advance their careers. The mission is to connect academic knowledge with market needs.
I co-own an IT consultancy and hosting business: dedicated servers, domain names, corporate email, managed firewalls and endpoint protection. Before it, from 2012 to 2019, I co-owned and ran Datapack LTD, a corporate hosting company in the London area.
I joined the IT department of City Unity College in 2011 and spent twelve years there, ending as its IT Director. As an engineer I have also worked on various projects with companies such as Microsoft, IBM, PwC and Facebook.
I serve as Data Protection Officer for a number of companies. I hold two Data Protection Officer qualifications, from GDPR Complet and LiberoGroup.
I joined as IT Administrator in June 2011, became IT Manager in May 2014 and IT Director in April 2018.
From October 2014 to June 2017 I mentored students and professionals in open-source software development, within Monades Aristeias, a programme under the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society.
I was co-owner and CEO from June 2012 to July 2019, in the London area. Corporate hosting: custom packages, cPanel and WHM administration, dedicated servers, DNS and email.
From August 2015 to May 2024 I was a remote IT engineer on contract, supporting servers, networks and end-user systems for international clients across multiple time zones.
Since May 2019 I have held a contract role in data sanitisation at data centres and colocation facilities, including network equipment during decommissioning.
I was IT Manager at the hotel in Vouliagmeni from June 2017 to December 2023.
I was IT Manager for the college in Nicosia, Cyprus, from February 2016 to December 2023.
I taught computer science in Athens from September 2014 to June 2015. The subjects were Computing Practices and Programming: structured programming, logic and coding fundamentals.
Talk at TEDxMaviliSquare
My talk at TEDxMaviliSquare in Ioannina, in May 2026, under the theme Enargeia. I spoke about knowledge that connects with innovation, technology and real life, and about learning that leaves the classroom to become a tool for development, adaptation and change.
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I took part in the panel discussion on new possibilities and new prospects in education, at the Conference Centre of the University of Patras.
My first degree was in Computing, 2008 to 2011. Four master’s degrees followed. A Master of Laws is in progress. So is a degree in natural sciences at the Hellenic Open University.
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Coventry University
Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Cardiff Metropolitan University
University of Wales
University of Wales
Hellenic Open University
Issued between 2022 and 2026. Two of them are Data Protection Officer qualifications. The most recent, from September 2026, is an instructor certification for routing and switching.
Omada by TP-Link UK&I
HP LIFE
GDPR Complet
Hellenic Open University
University of Patras
The Art of Service Academy
UCERT Greece
LiberoGroup
EASA, European Union Aviation Safety Agency
City Unity College
Three things from outside the two colleges: a community wireless network, open-source mentoring, and a drone pilot certificate.
Volunteering
The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a community-driven wireless network in the Athens region. I have volunteered on its backbone since February 2006. I have operated and maintained two active backbone nodes and taken part in deploying new ones locally. The work is hardware setup, signal alignment, troubleshooting, and sharing what I know with other members. Open, decentralised networking.
Mentoring
From 2014 to 2017 I mentored students and professionals at the National Technical University of Athens on real open-source projects: Linux, Git, version control, community contribution. Two projects are associated with that work, both on Arduino: Internet of Things, in two parts, and the development of a wearable system for use in sports.
Airspace
In November 2022 I was certified as a UAS Remote Pilot in the Open Category by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. In plain terms, a drone pilot. The certificate sits beside two Data Protection Officer qualifications and one in data wiping and destruction.
Greek
Native or bilingual
English
Professional working
French
Elementary
I write on LinkedIn about artificial intelligence, authorship and the link between higher education and the technology industry. Three excerpts from 2026, unedited.
The real conversation shouldn’t be about whether AI was involved. It should be about who takes responsibility for the final output.
In the age of AI, authentic human knowledge may become the world’s most valuable resource.
As Director General of City Unity College, I strongly believe that higher education should remain closely connected to the real needs of the technology industry.
Contact
If you want to talk about education, technology or a partnership between institutions, I would be glad to hear from you. Reach me on LinkedIn.