ASSOCIATE’S RESUMES
 
Dr. Panagiotis Nomikos, born in 1961, has twelve years experience in Information Technology and Management. He received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciense from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Sussex, UK, in 1988. He has been a Research Engineer at Unilever Research at Port Sunlight, Wirral, UK, and in 1992 – 95 he participated in the establishment of Stelmar Tankers as the I.T. Manager. In 1995 – 96 he had been an Office Automation Specialist with ABC Systems & Software S.A., one of the largest Systems Integrators. In 1997 he established P. Nomikos & Associates and concurrently he established Netshipbrokers.com, a pioneering maritime online Chartering service that today is the most experienced and largest service of its kind with over 6,000 maritime professionals who have become Members, from 100 countries world-wide. He is the Director of P. Nomikos & Associates and he has participated in all the projects of the company. He is also a Professor of Information Technology at the New York College (the Athens branch of New Paltz College of the State University of New York) and he has published several articles at the New Economy Observer monthly journal and the DigitalShip monthly journal related to Shipping ICT.

Stelios Sbyrakis, born in 1964, has twelve years experience as Technical Director with Information Technology companies. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Metsovion National Technical University of Athens. He started his career in Pan Drive, a company developing a vehicle navigation system. In 1994 – 97 he has been the Technical Director of Syndesis Ltd, a company developing fuzzy logic software systems. In 1997 – 2001 he has been the Technical Director of Netwave S.A. that provides integrated frontline solutions for retail and warehousing I.T. systems, and he has also worked in numerous other I.T. projects as a consultant.