Yanni Spyropoulos

Yanni Spyropoulos is a founder and managing partner at OCTANE Management Consultants.

Prior to founding OCTANE, he was a General Manager at KANTOR Management Consultants and the Vice Chairman at the SPOT JWT communications group. He has also worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton in London.

He counts more than 30 years of experience in consulting and advertising. He has managed more than 500 projects on strategy, business planning, operational restructuring, marketing, sales development and reorganisation for clients such as SEV, the Bank of Greece, the Ministry of Development, Eurobank, the National Bank of Greece, Heinz Europe, S&B Industrial Minerals, Vodafone, OTE, Emporiki Bank, Piraeus Bank, Interamerican, ERGO and many more.

He has served as assessor and mentor at the egg, NBG Business Seeds and ideatree.

He is also a Board Member at the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) and the Treasurer of the Greek Harvard Alumni Association.

Yanni holds a BA in IT and Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from INSEAD.