Ioannis Ganos
General Manager, Alpha Real Estate Management & Investments SA
Mr. Ganos joined Alpha Bank in 2017 as Advisor on Real Estate and since 2018 he became the General Manager of Alpha Real Estate Management & Investments, the new subsidiary of Alpha Bank which is responsible for Real Estate Owned (REO). Prior to that, he worked for Bluehouse Capital, a private equity real estate fund management firm having the role of Senior Investment Director responsible for sourcing, structuring and executing acquisitions and exits in CEE and SEE. Before that, he worked as a Real Estate Associate for the Technical Olympic Group, a major Athens Stock Exchange listed Greek construction and real estate conglomerate including a NYSE listed subsidiary. Prior to this, he was an Associate of OTE Estate S.A., the real estate subsidiary of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE S.A.), where he was involved in the strategic planning and the re-organization of the group’s corporate real estate portfolio. Mr. Ganos started his career as a research associate for the foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) in the department of Public Finance. He is a chartered surveyor (MRICS) since 2008 and he served as Chairman of the board of the RICS Hellas (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) for 7 years.
Mr. Ganos holds a B.Sc. degree in Economic and Regional Development from Panteion University and an M.Sc. degree in Real Estate Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a graduate of the PDC in Innovations in Real Estate Finance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published academic and professional articles and is co-author of the book “Hidden economy and tax evasion in Greece” 2001, by Papazisis publications.