Vasilis Tountopoulos

IDr Vasilis Tountopoulos holds the position of CEO at ZELUS. His main activities involve leading the business development, innovation, and commercialization activities of the company solutions in the fields of digital solutions for corporate sustainability, cybersecurity, and data management and visualization. He, also, provides consulting services on project management, technical specifications, and research-driven innovation for national and EU co-funded research projects and drives the delivery of the next generation of the ZELUS products and services. He has more than 25 years of experience in EU and National co-funded and commercial ICT projects, leading activities with respect to the analysis of customer needs and business requirements, the specification of technical design and the development of business modelling and commercialisation opportunities for new technical solutions. In the recent years, he has been engaged with the analysis of the strategic, organisational, and technological dimensions of cybersecurity in the context of the established EU regulations (Cybersecurity Act, Cyber Resilience Act, Cyber Solidarity Act) and directives (NIS2) and the application of breakthrough AI-assisted technologies for cybersecurity awareness, analysis, and maturity assessment in various business sectors and vertical domains. He has also extensive expertise in the analysis, specification and application of data-driven digital and green transformation technologies in various business sectors. His interests include AI analytics, interoperability, big data management and visualisation, cybersecurity and data protection, distributed information systems, and mobile technologies. Vasilis holds a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras.
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