The members of the Board of Directors are executive or non-executive, of which, two at least are independent. The members of the Board of Directors are elected by the General Assembly of Shareholders, which also appoints the independent members.  

The Board of Directors consists of two (2) executive members and eight (8) non-executive members, of which, four (4) are independent.

Our Board of Directors is comprised as follows:

Name	Position	Capacity	Expiry
Panagis Vourloumis	Chairman / CEO	Executive	2012
Dimitris Tzouganatos	Vice-Chairman	Non-Executive / Independent	2012
Rainer Rathgeber	Director	Non-Executive	2012
Guido Kerkhoff	Director	Non-Executive	2012
Copp Kevin	Director	Executive	2012
Stathis Anestis	Director	Non-Executive	2012
Nikolaos Karamouzis	Director	Non-Executive	2012
Michail Bletsas	Director	Non-Executive / Independent	2012
Panagiotis Tabourlos	Director	Non-Executive / Independent	2012
Vassilis Fourlis	Director	Non-Executive / Independent	2012

Director Biographies

Panagis Vourloumis
Mr. Vourloumis is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the Economic Development Institute. He headed the Southeast Asia division of the International Finance Corporation from 1966 to 1973, was CEO of the Commercial Bank of Greece Group from 1979 to 1981 and Chairman and CEO of ALPHA Finance, ALPHA Mutual Funds and ALPHA Bank Romania from 1988 to 2000 while at the same time serving as Executive Director of ALPHA Bank. From 2000 until recently, Mr. Vourloumis was Chairman of Frigoglass and of the Aegean Baltic Bank. He has been President of the Association of Institutional Investors and member of the Board of the Federation of Greek Industries.
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Dimitis Tzouganatos 
Dimitris Tzouganatos, a lawyer with the Greek Supreme Court, was born on 1953 and he is Professor of Law at the University of Athens and a member of the Bar of Athens. He is a graduate of the Universities of Athens (LL.B., 1976), Tübingen/Germany (Dr. iur., 1982) and Michigan (LL.M., 1985).  From December 1988 until June 2000 he worked as a lawyer. From October 2003 to July 2004 he served as Chief Legal Counsel in OTE Group and from July 2004 until June 2006 as a General Director of Regulatory Affairs of OTE S.A. Between June 1995 and March 1999 he was Member and, between October 2000 and October 2003, Chairman of the Hellenic Competition Commission (National Competition Authority). From July 2006 to January 2008 he served as Chief Legal Counsel of EFG Eurobank.
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Rainer Rathgeber
Mr. Rainer Rathgeber, member of Cosmote’s Board of Directors since July 2009, was born in 1964, and has been a member of the Deutsche Telekom Group since 2002. Currently he is Senior Vice-President for Marketing in SE Europe and for the area management of the OTE Group. Until September 2009 he held the position of CEO of Mobile Hrvatski as well as the position of COO Mobile of Telekom Hrvatski Board. Prior to joining the Deutsche Telekom Group, he had worked for prominent consulting firms, such as A.T. Kearney and Roland Berger in Germany and Latin America. Mr. Rathgeber holds a Masters degree in economics from the University in Passau, Germany.
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Guido Kerkhoff
Mr. Guido Kerkhoff, was born in 1967 and holds a degree in Business Administration. He began his career in the Group Accounting Department of VEW AG, where he worked from 1995 through 1996. He then moved on to Bertelsmann AG, where he held the position of Head of Projects and General Corporate Accounting and Controlling. Since April 2002, Mr. Guido Kerkhoff has held various management positions in Deutsche Telekom’s Finance department. From mid-2006 until February 2009 he was the Head of Deutsche Telekom Group Accounting and Controlling. Since March 2009, Mr. Kerkhoff has been Member of Deutsche Telekom’s Board of Management, responsible for South Eastern Europe.
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Copp Kevin 
Mr. Kevin Copp assumes the position of Chief Financial Officer of the OTE Group since August 2009. From 1995 until the assumption of his present position he served as executive in Deutsche Telekom and was until recently Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions of Deutsche Telekom responsible for the Group’s corporate development activities worldwide. Prior to that, he was Head of International Legal Affairs of Deutsche Telokom. Mr. Copp holds a Juris Doctor degree from Catholic University in Washington D.C. and a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages from West Chester University, Pennsylvania.
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Stathis Anestis
Mr Anestis was born in 1952 and he is an Electrical Engineer. He first worked at OTE in 1979 as a Telecommunications Technician. He worked in the field of telecommunications systems constructions of Long Distance and International Communications. He served as Secretary General and Chairman in the Greek Telecom Employees’ Federation (ΟΜΕ-ΟΤΕ), participating in many committees for the examination of human resources’ evaluation and business organization systems. As an employee’s representative he participated in the Economic and Social Council of Greece in Brussels (Telecommunications Team) and in the International Federation of Employees in Posts and Telecoms, where he was responsible for SE Europe. He served as Chairman of ΟΤΕplus, and was also Manager in ΟΤΕ Asset Management-Consulting. From 2002 to 2004 he served as Chairman of the Organization of Personnel Security of the Greek Public Power Corporation. Since 2006 he is member of the Executive Committee and of the Board of the Greek General Union of Employees. During the same time he has served as Deputy Secretary General and Press and Public Relations Secretary. He is also a member of the BoD of the “Invest in Greece” agency. 
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Nikolaos Karamouzis
Mr Nikolaos Karamouzis was born in 1952 and holds a B.Sc. in Economics from University of Piraeus, Greece, an M.A. in Economics from American University Washington D.C., USA and a Ph.D. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University, USA. From 1988 to 1993 he served as Deputy Director, as well as Director of the Foreign Exchange Division of the Bank of Greece. He was also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Greece. From 1993 to 1995 he served as Deputy Governor of ETBA Bank S.A. and from 1995 to 1999 as a Deputy Governor of National Bank of Greece. Today he is member of the Board of Directors and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Eurobank EFG., Chairman of Eurobank EFG Cyprus Ltd (Cyprus) and EFG Istanbul Holdings A.S. (Turkey). He is also Vice-Chairman of Eurobank EFG Property Services S.A., EFG Istanbul Securities S.A. and Eurobank Tekfen A.S. (Turkey), as well as member of the Board of Directors of EFG Hellas PLC (United Kingdom), EFG Hellas Funding Ltd, EFG Hellas (Cayman Islands) Ltd, EFG Private Bank Luxembourg S.A., EFG Holding (Luxembourg) S.A. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Global Fund Management S.A., member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) and Global Finance S.A. He is also Chairman of the High Level Committee on Markets and Capital of the Hellenic Banking Association. Finally Mr Karamouzis is a full-time Professor at the University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management.
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Michail Bletsas
Michail Bletsas is a Research Scientist and the Director of Computing at MIT's Media Lab where he has been working since 1996. He was one of the founding members of the “One Laptop Per Child” initiative where he made significant contributions to the design and implementation of OLPC's pioneering "XO" laptop as well as its Internet connectivity. He co-founded Velti S.A., a very successful mobile advertising and marketing company and has consulted for many companies in many different capacities. Over the years, he has implemented broadband access networks using cutting-edge technologies including one of the earliest ADSL testbeds and various wireless technologies. Mr. Bletsas has been a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences and has been engaged in many civic activities. He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University.
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Panagiotis Tabourlos
Mr. Tabourlos is a graduate of the Piraeus University of Economics and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He worked as Financial Manager in various corporations, including Milchem International, Hilti SA, American Express and ICI. From 1990 to 2003 worked for Warner Lambert SA, an affiliate of Pfizer where immediately prior to his departure he held the position of Regional Financial Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. From June 2003 until April 2004 he held the position of Chief Financial Officer of OTE. Since then he has been Financial Director of the Frigoglass Group. He is the Chairman of our Audit Committee and the "audit committee financial expert."
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Vassilis Fourlis
He was born in 1960 in Athens. He holds a Masters Degree in Economic Development and Regional Planning from University of California/Berkeley and a Masters Degree in International Business from Boston University/Brussels. He is Executive Chairman of Fourlis Holdings S.A. and House Market S.A. (IKEA). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Piraeus Bank, Titan S.A. and Frigoglass S.A.
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