Stavros Vlachoyannis
CIO Telecom & Computing Systems Strategist
Stavros Vlachoyannis was the former CEO of VENERCO Holdings, a New Technologies private equity investment firm based in New York City investing in Clean Energy Production and Sustainable living technologies initiatives.
He has a very strong background in combining Physics, Computing, Telecommunications, RES Energy production and management technologies for sustainable living. He held many software engineering, management and two executive positions as a team member of ATS, a Pioneering Computer Graphics and Flight Simulations Company, Goldman Sachs, CSC, AT&T Bell Labs, Digital Equipment Corporation, Dialogic Corporation, EBS/Newnet, STAT Communication S.A, Ergodata S.A, Silicon Graphics (SGI Technologies S.A) and United Communication Networks Ltd. (UCN), a multimedia provisioning company.
Over the years he also worked as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions and turnaround of distressed companies. Currently, he is also advising AVS AUTONET VERITAS SERVICES Company, an added value IOT devices designer and services provider for the Automotive, Logistics and Maritime Industries, as well as he is an advisor of the executive board of directors of the SGCM Group an investment firm.
Stavros has many years of experience in R&D, Software and Hardware Products Design and implementation, Management, Marketing and International Business.
Stavros has participated and talked in many international telecommunication and Computing conferences as an evangelist of Advanced Intelligent Networks, IoT, Telecom Services Provisioning and Sustainable living.
He studied Physics at the University of Athens, Greece (BS 1974-1976) and Computer Science, Mathematics and Telecommunication at the Tandom School of Engineering of NYU (BS/MS 1988).
Since 1983 he is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of its AI Special Interest Group. Since 1996 he is a member of the Federation of the Telecommunications Engineers of the EU (FITCE – Hellenic Branch). He is also an honorary member of the Hellenic Union of Physicists of Greece (EEF) responsible for bridging New Technologies needed for Sustainable living with Society.