P&L ownership since 2006 · Seven languages · Four continents

Georges
Kougioumtzis

VP International Sales / Chief Commercial Officer — EMEA & GCC

I build commercial organisations rather than run inherited ones. Take a product with no presence in a territory, build the channel and the team that sell it, and hold the position once it is won. I have done it from zero to €80M and a stock-market listing, and across six European markets held for sixteen years.

US$4M+EMEA, Middle East & Africa territory owned today
€1.5MP&L held concurrently, 30-strong workforce
€80MBuilt from zero at NEOVIA, to a Euronext Paris listing
16 yrsSELFSAT held as European category leader, six countries
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The career, on one line

A CV lists roles one after another. Mine did not run that way. From 2017 I operated my own company while holding European mandates for two Korean principals, and I hold a P&L today alongside an international territory — so the bars below overlap, deliberately. Select any one to read the scope.

Operating role
Concurrent mandate or advisory
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Roles in detail

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Where the work happened

Markets built

  • France FR
  • Germany DE
  • United Kingdom UK
  • Benelux BE / NL / LU
  • Spain ES
  • Italy IT
  • Gulf & Middle East GCC
  • North & West Africa AF
  • South Korea KR

Accounts & partners

Retail chains, builders' merchants, broadcasters and OEMs signed or managed directly.

Canal+TPSSaint-Gobain Point PLeroy MerlinCastorama BigMatAmazonCdiscounteBay

Trade floors worked

IFA BerlinCES Las VegasCEBIT Hanover Batimat ParisBig 5 DubaiMEDICA Düsseldorf Canton Fair GuangzhouIBC AmsterdamArab Health Dubai
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Languages, education, credentials

Languages

Arabic
Native
French
Native
English
Fluent
Armenian
Fluent
Greek
Fluent
Turkish
Working
Korean
Basic

Education

Network Infrastructure CertificationCNAM, Paris — 2001–2002
DEA, Business IntelligenceUniversité Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée — 2000–2001
MBA, Business Management & Commercial SciencesUSEK, Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Lebanon — 1998–1999

Building sector certifications

RGEQualiPVQualibatIRVE CE / NFDTURT 2012RE 2020

Systems

CRMSalesforce · HubSpot · Zoho
ERPSAP · Oracle · Odoo
AnalyticsTableau · Power BI

Core competencies

Market entryChannel developmentP&L ownership Contract negotiationKey accountsCross-border trade Go-to-marketTeam leadership