Alexandra and Christina Karageorgiou are twin sisters and managers at their mother’s holiday rental business, “Nicoletta – Your island home”. They manage properties in Santorini, Patmos and Athens, but are based in Santorini, which they also consider their true home, despite being brought up in Athens. They both studied Business Administration in Hospitality Management at the Hotelschool The Hague and then went on to work abroad taking on a variety of positions in a number of hotels. This greatly broadened their international hospitality experience. They then decided to do post-graduate studies in London. Alexandra obtained an MA in Tourism, Environment and Development from Kings College London, while Christina obtained an MA in Events and Conferences Management from Westminster University. Whilst living in London, they took the initiative to add their mother’s properties to the Airbnb platform in order to boost their popularity and ensure that they are up to date with the latest ‘sharing economy trend’. They realized what great potential Airbnb gave them and how much room for growth their mother’s business had, particularly in relation to the new travel trends and the extraordinary popularity Santorini gained. Soon after they decided to move from London to Santorini.

Yannis Charalampakis holds a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic School of University of Patras.

Yannis is co-founder and CEO of Noveltech (member of science and technology park of Crete), focusing in mobile & web applications for the tourism sector and e-government.

He has 20 years professional experience in IT sector (product manager, mobile applications in the e-government & tourism sectors, sms services, port community systems, e-shops, e-government portals and services). He has participated in EU and national funded ICT projects.

Petros is co-founder and CTO of Syncbnb. An accomplished software and web engineer for more than a 15 years, Petros has been a co-founder of several web startups in the past as well as senior developer in some of the most successful web development companies in Greece and abroad. He recently left his position as a lead developer in bunq (online-only bank from Netherlands) to build Syncbnb.

He has worked in building a variety of projects starting from games, a poker AI, humor sites all the way to a bank. He loves technology and how people team up to achieve the impossible.

Nikos is basically a chemist. He studied chemistry, but he soon discovered that chemical compounds are less interesting than human relationships.

However, chemistry explains analytically the processes of life, so its reduction to “human compounds” leads to a wonderful way of thinking.

In his professional career so far, for about 22 years, Nikos promotes and strengthens formal sales people to people who produce profitable work, with respect and commitment to their collaborators and customers.

Nikos does not like numbers. Numbers are just a result that is easy to come, if people can overcome the concept of “opposite” and move on to the concept of “together”.

In the last 4 years he is living the dream of his life, applying his whole experience, devoting all his energy and enjoying every minute of the day at Lancom as Chief Commercial Officer.

His experience is at your disposal, along with his passion for discussions and sharing ideas.

You can find Nikos at Lancom’ s HQ or send him a mail at : [email protected]