George has joined ICAP CRIF in 2017 and appointed Group Data Protection Officer since then. He maintains under his role of Group DPO the supervision of privacy compliance of all ICAP CRIF legal entities in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus. In 2018 he appointed General Manager of Comply.Data (ICAP CRIF Subsidiary) and one year later he joined his forces and became member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Risk Managers (HA.RI.MA). Under his portfolio of roles, George provides taught courses at ICAP CRIF Risk Training Institute (RTI) accumulating more than 120 hours of lecturing in risk, privacy and compliance subjects Before joining ICAP, George was the first DPO appointed in Greece at AXA Insurance (2 years). He has also served for more than 15 years as Head of Privacy, Security and Compliance sectors in diverse industries (Head of Information Security in Marfin Bank, Director of IT Operations & Security in Panellinia Group of Cooperative Banks, Head of IT Security in Wind Hellas Telecommunications, IT/Security Audit Manager in PwC, and Compliance and IT Security Officer in Bank of Cyprus London-UK). He holds an MSc in Information Systems Management, Stirling University of Scotland and a BSc in Business Administration with concentrating at Computer Information Systems and Management Accounting, the American College of Greece (Deree College). He is certified by the Information Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA) in Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) as well as, in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).