I build where trust is the hard part.
16+ years building & scaling iGaming risk & compliance across regulated markets. Now building products solo.
Sixteen years scaling operations where getting it wrong is not an option.
Start here: What is regulatory compliance?Compliance as a growth function — trust as an unfair advantage.
- ▸Regulators, banks and partners onboarded faster than competitors
- ▸Risk posture wired into product and commercial decisions
- ▸In parallel: building 5 products solo
Rebuilding risk & compliance as a growth function — one where regulators, banks and partners trust the operation faster than competitors can catch up.
Redesigned the entire compliance operations division across 6 licences while the business was listed on the NYSE. Public-market scrutiny on one side, live regulated markets on the other.
Compliance leadership across a multi-brand European operator — process, people and controls that had to move at commercial speed.
Joined pre-scale. Grew the team from 9 to 900 people, built 3 departments from scratch, and helped set the operational spine that carried Stoiximan and Betano into international markets.
Earlier — Bank of Cyprus, service in the Hellenic Army, and a decade teaching maths, physics & chemistry.
On stage about AI, regulation and trust.
Products in market — earning, learning, iterating.
foreva.io
Order photo prints straight from WhatsApp, Viber, Instagram or Telegram — no app, delivered across Europe.
strokeline.golf
AI golf analytics: head-to-head player comparisons and broadcast-quality, embeddable shot charts.
icaruscompliance.com
Compliance training & consulting — short B2C courses to B2B advisory retainers.
P1L2T3s
Global apparel and merch brand built around reformer Pilates — the culture as much as the workout.
finngaming.com
News and market intelligence for Finland's online iGaming market — built ahead of the licensing regime opening in July 2027.
The bets in progress.
PartCasa
Own your week, forever.
Buy legal, verified "weeks" of ownership in mortgage-free apartments across Europe's best cities — Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Milan. Real title, no timeshare.
Own a second home? Sell 40 of 52 weeks and reinvest into holiday weeks in dozens of other homes. One second home becomes many — forever theirs.
"Fractional ownership lives or dies on legal structure, verification, and trust. That's the exact world I've operated in for 16 years."
Poker Bot Platform
A real-money arena where users configure their own poker bots — broad consensus strategies down to per-street, per-tournament tweaks — and set them loose bot-vs-bot. Strategies adjustable at each hourly break.
Golf eSim Club — Malta
A premium membership club built around Golfzon simulators and PuttView putting greens. Capex-heavy, so pre-selling founding memberships before committing to the venue.
beatpeak.ai
AI that finds the best 30–60 seconds of your audio files and auto-mixes them into highlight reels by mood and genre.
…and more in the pipeline.
A wide arc, on purpose.
Discipline from the military. Communication from teaching. Deep operating experience in one of the most regulated industries on earth. And the ability to actually ship. Few founders have all four.
First job that mattered was one where nobody wanted to hear excuses. You show up, you hold your post, you hand it over clean. That instinct never left — it's how I run compliance teams and how I run product ops.
A regulated bank is a masterclass in how money, paperwork and accountability actually move. I left knowing that trust in finance is engineered, not assumed — a thing you can build, break, and rebuild.
Ten years explaining hard things to teenagers who did not want to be there. Best communication school on earth. If you cannot get a bored 15-year-old to follow a proof, you cannot brief a board on model risk either.
Joined when the whole team could fit in one room. Left with three departments I built from scratch and 900 people around them. Stoiximan and Betano became household names in the middle of that.
Running compliance across a European multi-brand operator taught me the real skill isn't policy — it's translating one framework into a dozen live markets without slowing the commercial engine.
Redesigned the compliance operations division across 6 licences while the parent was listed in New York. Every process had to survive both a regulator's audit and a public-market quarter.
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer now. And in parallel, building. The founder side of me was always there — it just needed the operator side to grow up first.
Trained to think in systems.
- BSc Economics — Athens University of Economics & Business
- MBA — University of Piraeus
- MSc Education — University of Roehampton
- Executive education — Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
- Executive education — Loyola University
How compliance functions actually get built.
What is regulatory compliance?
A plain-English definition of regulatory compliance, what a compliance function actually does day to day, and how it works across multiple licences and jurisdictions.
Read the guideHow to scale a compliance function from zero
A practical playbook for building a compliance function from one person to a real department: first 90 days, hiring order, frameworks, and multi-jurisdiction ops.
Compliance automation: what actually works
An operator's view of compliance automation: which processes genuinely automate, which ones should not, how to sequence tooling, and how to avoid buying a platform you cannot feed.
How to run a compliance operations redesign
How to redesign a compliance operations division across multiple licences without stopping the business — sequencing, evidence, and running the programme on public-market timelines.
iGaming compliance: scaling from 9 to 900
A first-hand case study of scaling iGaming risk and compliance from a nine-person startup to a 900-person operator: three departments built from scratch and what broke at each stage.
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