Jan 2021 – Present

Head of Design
Kantan (supported by OVO Energy)

Leader of the product design team across business. Building and managing the internal design team. Advocate for Design Thinking, supporting everyone in the team to work smart and drive a vision for user experience. Ensuring design activity supports the product delivery roadmap. Craft usable and beautiful designs for Kantan’s products by applying expertise, qualitative and quantitative research findings, and collaborating with peers.

Since 2009

Design Director & Founder
Bitniks

I founded Bitniks as a creative platform that aims to bring together good people with incredible skills to collaborate in designing and developing inspiring work, focusing on simplicity, reason, usability, the critical details and aesthetics while caring about the human life and its environment. I work with other designers and teams for with clients from the first meeting, interpreting business ideas to creative strategy plans and further on to software ideas and final UX and UI pixel pushing to delivered products.

I work with great clients from global studios and startups to local small retailers.

Dec 2019 – Aug 2020

Product Design Lead & Co-founder
107% (Startup Studio by Concentrix)

I was a Co-founder of this team focused on researching innovation and creating new digital products. Also, responsible for the Strategy, owner of Product Design and accountable for Marketing strategy and execution, I set the products’ direction and manage the design teams that work on new ideas. In this exciting new venture, we're focused on creating digital products that improve peoples lives. This is not something we take lightly. With the great power of technology, comes great responsibility.

Brill.app has been the first product made by the Studio.

Oct 2018 – Dec 2019

Product Design Lead & Co-founder
Brill.app

I lead the product’s vision, and my focus is on growth. I am responsible for the strategy, owner of the UX&UI design and accountable for marketing strategy and execution. I set the product direction and manage a team of two designers that I help grow with a visionary style of leadership. I directly report to the Head of Products and work closely with the Tech Lead and Managing Director. I also facilitate the product’s content and social media marketing.

Brill was featured in New Apps We Love and as App of the Day from Apple, and voted as #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. 

Jan 2016 – Oct 2018

Design Director R&D & Global Head of Brand
Tigerspike Global

I led the strategy and design of the R&D team. I overhauled the visual design of new ideas’ prototypes and products’ MVPs. I was the Head of Design for Intelligence, the most significant Tigerspike platform/product. I led a team of three product designers and also managed support from Tigerspike’s global design resources working closely with the Design Leads of other offices. Working on products and frameworks for the company and collaborating with the C-Suite, we also evolved the company’s branding and online presence. I was reporting directly to the company’s CEO as my team’s work affected the company’s global strategy and marketing proposition. I was hiring and training a design team to focus on internal design systems and common branding language between the offices.

Also, I was the Global Head of Brand, I am responsible for the evolution of the Tigerspike Brand since 2016. From internally centralising the communication design elements to educating employees and helping them use Tigerspike Visual Language and Tone of Voice to promote our work.

Sep 2014 – Jan 2016

Senior Product Designer
Tigerspike London

I was responsible for the UX & UI design on a number of projects. I led designers and project teams successfully delivering solutions and products for clients including the United Nations, Emirates Airlines, Lloyds Bank, BP, Channel 4, NHS, Nuffield Health etc. My involvement varied from facilitating workshops to knowledge hunt and from user flows to UI art direction, leading teams of 2-4 designers, usually split 70%-30% between UX and UI. I helped HR evolve the hiring process and most of the designers in my team are now either leads in their team or moved on as directors to other companies. I was mentoring and inspiring the global team of designers through workshops, setting local presentations and sharing them as videos or even travelling to share with them lessons learned from our most recent projects.

Feb 2011 – Jun 2014

Creative Director
Ogilvy Athens

I worked with Planners, ATL Creative Directors, Copywriters and PMs on demanding transmedia storytelling projects, delivering award-winning work for clients like IKEA, Bacardi, Nestle, P&G, Unilever, and FAGE. I led a fully digital group and grown it from two creatives to eight in one year.

Mar 2007 – Nov 2009

Creative Director
TribalDDB Athens

I am a proud “founding member” of TribalDDB as I was the creative director that was called to initiate its business in Greece. A demanding, leadership role under the fast-growing and competitive digital environment in Greece at that time. I managed, within two years, to grow the business and the creative team from 2 to 10 people, working for clients like Toyota, Vodafone, Dewar’s, AXE, Unilever and Alpha Bank.

Jan 2005 – Apr 2007

Creative Media Director
Mototech SA

I directed the in-house Creative Media department, leading a team of 7 designers, successfully delivering, print ads for six print magazines, one interactive magazine in DVD, and two websites. I was also leading a team two designers working on branding and packaging for company’s clients.

Jan 2003 – Mar 2005

Design Director & Co-founder
Sandbox

This was my first attempt to create something new. It was a “startup” focused on digital design services that gave me the opportunity to bring new ideas into business that weren't familiar with digital and online media at the time. My work became well-known back then, which led to an invitation for a relocation to Athens.

Personal Projects

Bitniks ⟶

It is a creative platform that aims to bring together good people with astonishing skills to collaborate in designing and developing inspiring work, focusing on simplicity, purpose, usability, the important details and aesthetics while caring about the human life and its environment.

Typogreek ⟶ 

A collaborative photography project based on greek street typography, initiated by Hello Panos and me and supported with many respected creatives from Greece. The project is still live and was well covered by media.

Member of Design Juries

2021 European Design Awards (Digital)
2019 European Design Awards (Digital)
2016 European Design Awards (Digital)
2014 European Design Awards (Digital)  
2013 IMC European Awards
2013 European Design Awards (Digital)
2012 European Design Awards
2012 EVGE (Greek Design Awards)  
2011 European Design Awards
2010 NYF Innovative Advertising Awards
2010 European Design Awards
2009 Ermis Web Awards
2009 WebAwards

Selected Talks

2016 “Design Living”, TEDx UniPi ⟶ Watch on YouTube
2014 “Narate Your Work”, 5th Behance Portfolio Review Athens
2013 “Nothing Is Possible Until It's On Facebook” , AllThingsFacebook
2012 “Technology Bends Limits”, Cannes Lions Digital
2011 “Evolution in Digital Media Design”, Digitized Conference
2011 “Web Design for touch devices”, Graphica Design Exhibition
2008 “A web design history”, Design Panorama Conference

Proud of

1. Being a key initiator of a social graphic design project with a massive number of designers participating with posters supporting and promoting social messages inspired by the big riots in Greece (2008).

2. Taking part in “Crisis is a Greek Word” project (2014). A global initiative to describe Greece in the times of Crisis. The ongoing depression that affects more countries every day has inspired 48 top Greek Visual Communication Designers (including: Beetroot, Designers United, Charis Tsevis, K2 design, Nomint, P6, Kanella, Chris Trivizas design, Dimitris Arvanitis, Polka dot, Sereal designers, Bob Studio, 2yolk etc.), with more than 1,240 international and national distinctions, to participate for the first time at a common exhibition, its sole aim being to convey a message of creativity to the World.

3. Being the first ever speaker of Digitized (Southeastern Europe’s most important annual meeting for the people working in and around the digital design scene), opening the first event in 2011.