Gerassimos Spyridakis

Chairman

StartSmart CEE (member of the MIT JWEL Network), Switzerland

Gerassimos Spyridakis has held seniors posts in New York, Brussels, London and Geneva as Senior Managing Director and Globa l Head for Southern Europe, Africa, Israel, Monaco and Turkey for the wealth management divisions of Citigroup and Bank Julius Baer. Before joining the finance sector in 1997, Gerassimos worked in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Greece and Romania as a br and manager and management consultant for United Distillers, Gallaher and Roche Pharmaceuticals. In the past two decades he has also on founded, served as a board member or as senior advisor startups focusing in artificial intelligence and the digital health space. He currently serves as the Chair of the Swiss Alpine Chapter of YPO (Young President Organization) and as Member of the Execut ive Board of YPO Europe. He holds a BSc in Business Administration from the American College of Greece and an MBA from Manchester Business School in the UK. He is part of Harvard Business School's Program and attended Executive E President ducation courses at IMD, Insead, Singularity University, London Business School and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).