Yiannis Gekas, MBA, MSc, MEng
Managing Director at ForestView, a TDG company- Claim this Profile
Click to upgrade to our gold package
for the full feature experience.
-
English Full professional proficiency
-
Greek Native or bilingual proficiency
-
German Professional working proficiency
-
Italian Elementary proficiency
Topline Score
Bio
Experience
-
ForestView, a TDG company
-
Greece
-
Advertising Services
-
1 - 100 Employee
-
Managing Director
-
Jul 2022 - Present
-
-
Chief Operating Officer
-
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
-
-
Chief Innovation Officer
-
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
-
-
-
PA Consulting
-
United Kingdom
-
Business Consulting and Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Management Consultant - Principal (Technology Innovation)
-
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Acted as a trusted advisor for multiple senior management clients, helping them understand, articulate and overcome complex business challenges through technology innovation. • Technology strategy • Digital transformation • Enterprise architecture • Change management • Due diligence Acted as a trusted advisor for multiple senior management clients, helping them understand, articulate and overcome complex business challenges through technology innovation. • Technology strategy • Digital transformation • Enterprise architecture • Change management • Due diligence
-
-
-
AIRCOM International (A TEOCO Company)
-
United States
-
Telecommunications
-
300 - 400 Employee
-
Director of Products (RAN & Transmission)
-
Jul 2012 - Mar 2017
Managed my own product portfolio with particular focus on introducing new products and solutions in the market. Successfully drove a new product from conception to customer adoption, managed 2 existing product lines with 100+ business clients and led a new complex solution initiative. Met with numerous customers worldwide for requirement gathering and sales support. Enabled my organisation to define and execute its overall product strategy and achieve its business targets. •… Show more Managed my own product portfolio with particular focus on introducing new products and solutions in the market. Successfully drove a new product from conception to customer adoption, managed 2 existing product lines with 100+ business clients and led a new complex solution initiative. Met with numerous customers worldwide for requirement gathering and sales support. Enabled my organisation to define and execute its overall product strategy and achieve its business targets. • Participated in formulating the company’s overall product strategy by being part of the relevant forum. • Successfully drove a new product from conception to customer adoption generating a multi-million revenue stream. • Managed multiple product lines end-to-end: business case, strategy, roadmap, pricing, requirement gathering from internal and external customers, specification, product development and market launch. • Virtual management of 30+ resources distributed across multiple teams and locations (USA, UK, Austria and India). • Agile project management and full responsibility of assigning and changing priorities daily. • Hands-on architecture, design and requirement specification as and when required to enable engineering teams. • Enabled downstream functions (sales, presales, marketing, delivery, support). • Extensive client facing worldwide at management & engineering level for requirement gathering and sales support.
-
-
Team Leader
-
Apr 2010 - Jul 2012
Built and led a team responsible for developing a brand new product which was delivered in a timely manner. First team in the company to adopt and use the Agile product development process. • Agile development & user stories • Requirement specification • Product design • Algorithms • People and project management • Scrummaster
-
-
Senior Systems Engineer
-
Nov 2008 - Apr 2010
Part of a team responsible for developing new product ideas for the next generation of the company's products, one of which got commercially launched. • Ideation • Prototyping • Algorithms • Market and technology research
-
-
Product Engineer
-
Oct 2006 - Nov 2008
Part of a team responsible for the product management and development of the world market leading Radio Planning tool (ASSET) with 150+ customers worldwide including T-Mobile USA, EE UK, MTN Group, Orange Group, Nokia. • Requirement specification • Market and technology research • Presales and postsales support • Client demos • RFPs
-
-
Education
-
Imperial College Business School
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) (Grade: DISTINCTION) -
University of Southampton
MSc, Wireless/Mobile Telecommunications (Grade: DISTINCTION) -
National Technical University of Athens
MEng, Telecoms, Electronics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (Grade: VERY GOOD)