Solomon Berahas

Solomon Berahas has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the company since 2021. He has served as an executive and non-executive member of the Board of Directors since 1996.

He began working at Citibank in 1983, initially in New York and then in Greece, where he was appointed as Managing Director for Credit Cards and Senior Credit Officer. In 2002, he was appointed as Chief Risk Officer for Retail Banking in Greece and South-eastern Europe at Eurobank. From 2012 to 2014, he served in the Board of Directors of Piraeus Bank, representing the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund. He has sat on the Boards of Geniki Bank and Deloitte in Greece, and has worked as a business consultant in Greece and abroad.

Since 2017, Mr Berahas has been an independent non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Piraeus Bank. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, member of the Board of the Hellenic Society for the Protection and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons (ELEPAP) and member of the Board of the Association of S.As and Entrepreneurship.

He holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, a M.Sc. in Information Systems and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He also holds an Advance Professional Certificate in Business Administration from the Stern School of Business, New York University, as well as a Certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD. He boasts extensive teaching and research experience.