Ioannis Kostopoulos – CEO and Co-Founder of SaMMYacht.com

Ioannis is the CEO and Co-Founder of SaMMYacht.com, a leading startup in global yachting industry market.

SaMMYacht.com as a startup, has been financed and awarded from European Commission (FIWARE-frontierCities, FIWARE-frontierCities2-MAG programmes) and it has raised capital from other EU initiatives like H2020 – ‘SymbIoTe’, H2020 – ‘Neptune Blue Growth Accelerator’, H2020 – ‘VICINITY’, H2020 – ‘SmartEES’  and awarded with the Seal of Excellence of H2020 – SME Instrument programme.

He is an active member of different business groups as ‘CORALLIA’: the cluster of creative industry companies (gi-Cluster), ‘STRATEGIS’: the Greek Maritime ICT cluster and Center of excellence, the Greek Tourism Startup Group and others. He participates regularly in Innovation and Hackathon events like Pireus Maritime Hackathon 2017, Bluegrowth Hackathon 2017 etc., EC Copernicus Hackathon, Restartup Innovation Contest and he is being a mentor of early stage startups in Blue Growth Incubator and Orange Grove Patras Accelerator.

Ioannis has a bachelor degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Engineering and Informatics, both from the University of Patras, Greece.

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