User:Tsigos

My name is Dimitris Tsigos and I was born in Athens, Greece in December 9th, 1977, the second son of Georgios Tsigos, who has been an Economist, and Eleni Bouyiatiotou, who has been a Teacher of Greek Literature. I have an older brother, Vassilis Tsigos. I grew up in Aspropyrgos, a suburb of Athens, where I completed my primary and secondary education. I received my diploma in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, in January 2001 and my MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Management Science and Technology, in December 2005. In 1998 I was guest researcher at the Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, while in 1999 and 2000, I was a member of the Networks and Telecommunications Group of the Institute of Computer Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas.

In September 2000 I was one of the founders of VIRTUAL TRIP Ltd, a student start-up in Greece, which has evolved to an entrepreneurial group of eleven dynamic companies, ten of them based in Greece and one in Spain.

In May 2006, I was nominated the Special Prize of the University of Crete for Continues Entrepreneurial Development and in May 2007 I was elected president of the Hellenic Informatics Union. In September 2008 I was elected president of the Hellenic Federation of Young Entrepreneurs Associations. Moreover, in November 2009 I was elected as member of the Presidential Team at YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, having the role of Treasurer.

My main goal is to create a sustainable working environment, bringing the notion of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, where individuals can work together and materialize their innovation and creativity to the benefit both of their own and their socioeconomic environment.