Vassilis
Nikolopoulos, PhD - Chief
Innovation Officer
He is the founder and CEO of INTELEN group
and Chief Innovation Officer, responsible
for the Innovation development / transition
and the creation of new advanced Services
for the future markets . He was born in
1975 in Athens and graduated from the French
School "Lycee Leonin".
He graduated in 2000 as Valedictorian of 3
Engineering departments (Civil, Electrical,
Mechanical) from the Polytechnic School of
Dundee University (Scotland), with a 1st class
4year Scottish honours in Electrical Engineering,
having gained 2 class medals, British Association
scholarship, Duff & Garland Prize and
the IEE prize 2000. He also obtained a 1st
class MSc and Diploma (DIC) in Control from
Imperial College, certificates in Management
and Marketing from LSE and after preparing
the French classe preparatoire (Maths Sup-Spe)
and succeeding in entrance exams (concours
PI) he entered Ecole Polytechnique of Paris
(promotion X99), from where he obtained the
"Majeures d'Ingenieur de l' Ecole polytechnique"
in applied mathematics and informatics, with
mention "Honorable". He gained scholarship
from the “Fondation de l’Ecole Polytechnique”
due to high grades in maths and physics. Currently
he is a PhD candidate at Multimedia Technology
Laboratory of the National Technical University
of Athens, working for a PhD in the domain
of Optimal Knowledge Engineering. His research
objective is to create a new mathematical
philosophy, based on differential topology,
in order to describe and model enterprise
knowledge. As an application result, his web-based
Energy Information System (patented EMIR system
from OBI) will be able to model, retrieve
and analyze Energy stream data over Internet
and dynamic profiles, correlating environmental
parameters, in order to extract useful knowledge
for Energy savings and C02 control.
He has also worked for big multinational
companies as an IT Consultant, Chief Innovation
Officer, Innovative Business Development Engineer
and Project manager in big EU commercial and
R&D projects. With his patented algorithm
in web energy data mining, he won the 2nd
Greek National Innovation Prize from OTENET
in 2007 and this gave him the Best New entry
Scientist in Greece from the STATUS Magazine
- Men of the Year 2007. He believes that changing
the environmental habits in one’s country,
using modern ICT philosophy, digital services
and Social Networking is a matter of changing
our approach. He has numerous Conference,
Journal and Technical publications. His patented
algorithmic method (EnergyRank - It has to
do with on-line ADSL analysis and automatic
ranking of energy customers, based on remote
LBS Location-based Services).) won the 2nd
Greek National Innovation Prize from OTENET
in 2007 and gave him the Best New entry Scientist
in Greece from the STATUS Magazine - Men of
the Year 2007. He is also the founder of the
spin-off R&D Group INTELEN (http://www.intelen.com)
a strong research team that will lead and
create advanced IT Services for the Greek
and European sector. He is also certified
IT Governance Process Consultant from Compuware
SA (USA) and leads national initiatives for
IT Governance methodologies (CoBIT, ITIL,
etc). Recently in 2010, Guidewire Group
(USA) and Red herring (USA) short-listed Intelen
as one of the top-100 innovative start-ups
worldwide
FULL
PROFILE in GREEK
FULL
PROFESSIONAL CV in English
Contact at v.nikolopoulos@intelen.gr
