Prof. Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos

Professor Dr. Eng. Evangelos Markopoulos is an expert, entrepreneur and scholar on Process and Project Management, Enterprise Engineering, Knowledge Management and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He holds a BA in Computer Science, an MSc in Computer Science with concentration in Artificial Intelligence, and a PhD on ICT Project and Investments.

With a demonstrable track record of delivering robust capability, to obtain detailed business, market, product & consumer insight, enabling superior business decision making, across all levels of the business. Key strengths include : Defining board-level vision  and strategy for strategic and agile project,   program  and process management, knowledge  management, business transformation, enterprise engineering and architecture and innovation management, ensuring  roadmaps in place for delivering and measuring actual business benefit realisation.

He worked across sectors, including Technology, Financial Services, Banking, Media & Entertainment, E-Commerce, Government, Defense, Logistics, Gaming and Hospitality, helping different organizations meet their digital transformation and enterprise engineering challenges. He enjoys working from the ground up, shaping the business process, knowledge architecture, technologies and organizational change, to ensure that commercial value is realized and enable the knowledge assets to be monetized. His results have enabled better strategic decision making for Board Strategy, Innovation, Extroversion, Product Development, & Consumer Experience  & Corporate Entrepreneurship. Through the development of sophisticated global technology management process models, he builds and manages high performance international project management and implementation teams of 2 to 100+ people; with extensive experience on agile, lean and dynamic management. He delivered from scratch several technology and corporate strategy & governance projects, across various industries, facilitating the delivery of high quality results within time, budget and schedule. He specializes on building democratic organizational management models based on the capability and maturity of the organization and the client, aligned with the project goals and expectations. He enjoys driving through change; he is results orientated; aligned to a strong teamwork and ethos.

As a Computer Scientist he worked mainly in the USA and at ΙΒΜ (as Applications and Graphics Programmer, Systems Programmer, Systems Engineer, Systems Architect), at Siemens (Communications applications, PBX’s, TCP/IP) and at Bell Laboratories of AT&T (Artificial Intelligent and Expert Systems Research on Man Machine Languages and Natural Language Processing for satellite communication management).

In his Academic career he taught (Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Management) under all academic roles and worked as a Research Fellow in research & development programs and initiatives, in Universities and Technical Institutions in the US, UK, Finland and Greece. He has 100+ publications in international journals and conferences.

As an innovative entrepreneur and businessman later, he established and managed the EMPROSS Group of companies composed from: EMPROSS Strategic IT Consultants, Athens, Greece (Project Management), Sparthink Technologies, San Francisco (Innovation and Apps Development, SmartGATE, Cairo Egypt (Enterprise Engineering), and Sophia147+, London, UK (Knowledge and Innovation Management).  He invested and developed many technologies and innovations turning them into applicable products and services.

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