Managing Partner | RECO EXPORTS LTD (BSc Hons, MBA, ILM)
London Area, United Kingdom
Innovator, effective communicator and entrepreneur with over 25 years' experience in business development and leadership, Antonis is passionate about everything that brings new challenges and creates business opportunities. Experienced in all aspects of business formation, operation, finance and management, he has either founded or been part of numerous successful businesses and projects around the world. In most of his professional life so far, he has been involved as a director or a business partner and shareholder in various profitable business ventures, but he was also fortunate enough to hold key leading roles in both the Public and Private sector in the UK. His main passion though was, is and will always be, Food & Drink. He indulges every moment of it, whether is viewed as business or pleasure. And a sales and marketing professional he is totally driven by connecting demand with supply.
After all, the way he views and lives his life, has always been led by the following three phrases:
• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary – Steve Jobs
• If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Get What You've Always Got – Henry Ford
• I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who – Rudyard Kipling
EXPERIENCE
• RECO EXPORTS, Managing Partner (March 2007 – Present)
• ALEXANDER GROUP, Founding Director (October 2006 - December 2009)
• NEWPORT & GWENT ENTERPRISE, Business Development Manager (January 2003 - April 2008)
• ARTISAN FOOD CO, Business Partner (March 1998 - January 2006)
• JOURNEYS LTD & JOURNEYS CLUB LTD, Founding Director (January 1999 - November 2004)
• BT, Regional Sales Manager (March 1998 - December 2003)
• WELSH FEDERATION OF HOUSING ASSOCIATION (National Assembly for Wales), Event Marketing Strategist (November 1994 - December 1997)
• BT, Customer Service Representative (October 1990 - August 1993)
EDUCATION
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
• Master's degree, Business Administration and Management,General · (1997 - 1998)
• Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Banking, Corporate,Finance · (1994 - 1997)
University of the West of England
• Economics, Business/Managerial Economics · (1990 - 1993)