Venetia Kontogouris
Nationality
Greek, American
Board position
Independent Non Executive Member
Board appointment
2017
Board committees membership
Member of the Nomination Committee Member of the Remuneration Committee
Joined Piraeus Bank
2017
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATION
| 1997 to 2006 | Board Member, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH). Establishment and implementation of an initial public offering |
| 1995 to 2011 | Managing Director, Trident Capital: $2 billion AUM (Funds ll through VII, early to late stage Enterprise IT exceeded 4x realized returns to date) |
| 1983 to 1995 | President, D&B Enterprises / Information Partners Capital (enterprises numerous assignments new products, new companies in information technology) |
| 1977 to 1981 | IBM, Sales, AT&T, Marketing |
OTHER MEMBERSHIPS
| 2012 to present | Board of Trustees, Northeastern University |
| 2011 to present | Founder and Managing Director, Venkon Group, LLC. Family office operated business with private equity investments, venture capital investments in hi-tech and public markets Real Estate portfolio consisting of commercial and residential development |
| 2011 to present | Member, Virginia Tech – Brain Franklin Institute |
| 2009 - present | Member of the Committee of 200 “National Organization of Women CEOs” |
| 2008 to present | Non-executive Board Member, Monterey Capital, venture capital technology investment in Education $75 ml, India based education Fund (Participation in Kaizen Private Equity) |
| 1997 to present | Member, University of Chicago's Advisory Board (Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business), 27 years’ experience serving as judge of innovative and new business plans |
| Selected Past Board Memberships Experience with investments | Advantec (Oasis Outsourcing), Bulger Capital (Boston), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), CrossMedia Services (a consortium of major national newspaper groups), Daou Systems (HealthTechnology), eCredit.com Inc (Internet Capital Group), beData Resources (The Daily Mail), Internet Profiles Corporation (CMGI), Invention Machine (HIS, Inc), Microland (India), Neilsoft (India), Odyssey Logistics, OneSource Information Services Inc (ONES), Outsource Partners International (ExlService Holdings) EXLS, PBN (Vurv/Taleo), Sphere (AOL), Vality, Technology Inc/Ascential Software (ASCL), Viant (Divine) |
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
- MBA, University of Chicago, 1977
- B.A, Northeastern University, 1974