Andreas Antonopoulos

Andreas Antonopoulos is the Rector of the University of New York in Prague (UNYP), a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at BISM and a Partner at Venture Growth Partners (www.vgpartners.io), an investment vehicle focusing on early stage ventures. Andreas teaches Entrepreneurship related subjects in several MBA Programs around the world and regularly gives related seminars, interviews and speeches on this topic.

He has nearly 30 years of experience with an academic, entrepreneurial, investment and corporate background blend. In 2001 he was a Co-Founder of Working Knowledge, a telecoms advisory firm in London which he exited in 2007 and he also co-founded Viva Credit, a fintech micro-lending market leader in Romania which has now expanded to two more EU countries. Andreas has also been an angel investor in a dozen other failed, alive or thriving ventures in the CEE and beyond and is a mentor in a few select accelerators such as Wayra and Startup Yard.

Before his current roles, Andreas has held senior executive appointments in Academia at Central European University as well as a variety of senior and middle management appointments in leading telecom sector companies such as RHK, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks and British Telecom. Andreas has worked and/or lived in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Philippines, Romania, Singapore, Spain, the UK and the US, and speaks 6 languages. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from University College London, UK and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Andreas brings substantial international and multi-cultural experience and insight to BISM.