Managing Director and Co-Founder of Apogee Information Systems, senior business consultant and senior project manager, Nektar Baziotis is a visionary leader and businessman. His formal training includes a BA in Mathematics from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, an International Business Management degree from PA U.S. university and an MBA from Sheffield University in the UK.

Following his vision of directing a highly appreciated international IT company, Nektar now manages several IT projects across over Europe, with public and private sector partners. Starting with only 2 laptops, his loyal friend Markos and a Dream in Greece in 2002, he is realising his company’s success of becoming a recognised international company.

Technical Director and Co-Founder of Apogee Information Systems since its inception in 2002. His passion is to create efficient IT products and solutions based on intangible needs and ideas. Apogee’s core products - Essence WCMS and Team PM Suite – and their respective advancement represent successful expressions of Markos’ technical expertise. He is responsible for all aspects of production and R&D at Apogee.

Having studied Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Business Administration, he has been involved in many academic and private-sector IT projects since 1997 with duties ranging from design and development of CMS/CRM/ERP systems to internet marketing, community building and IT infrastructure. He understands his role as a co-founder of Apogee as an opportunity for continuous involvement in IT development and experimentation and as a tool for him to better himself and the company.

Financial and HR Advisor at Apogee, Dimitris significantly contributes to Apogee with over 30 years of experience as a branch and regional manager in banking and finance. Additionally, he constantly engages in life-long training activities in business studies to accelerate his evolution. His colleagues experience him as a highly respected and loved manager as he maintains calm and control in situations of difficulty whilst pushing everyone individually to grow and evolve in times of peace.

The cornerstone of his philosophy is the importance of team spirit in a team consisting of individuals who freely express their individuality and originality. For Dimitris, advising Apogee is an opportunity to find balance for himself as he derives a sense of fulfillment by staying detached from what happens around him while maintaining his focus on his goals. Always accurate and impartial, he maintains his integrity regarding his duties.

Communications Officer and Apogee Representative in Spain, Christiane contributes to Apogee with her strong communication skills. Her position at Apogee allows her to apply her knowledge of German, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and her experience in diverse research settings. Her educational background consist of a PhD in Political Science and two Master degrees from academic institutions in the United States, Austria, France and Spain.

Her attitude is consistent with Apogee's philosophy of quality and evolution. Her approach is very structured and organised albeit totally inspired by SouthPark. She loves the sea and baking cookies, brownies and apple crisp.

Legal Advisor and Assistant to the MD, Xenofon is an international commercial Attorney in Law trained in Greece, Belgium and the USA. As a talented multi-tasker, success for him is to engage in all the many diverse activities he is interested in every day. Just as normal people need to eat five fruits/vegetables a day, Xenofon thrives on engaging in his five favorite activities a day. Apogee allows him the mobility he is seeking, a combination of technical, business and legal issues, be it in-house or traveling and meeting clients.

His name means “the polyglot” and he keeps surprising his colleagues with his knowledge of the foreign languages English, German and French that he already used as a journalist, online editor and communications manager for private companies and the European Commission. His witty and sarcastic humor spread his constant smile to the people around him. He likes to spend time outdoors playing tennis or going out with his friends.

Maria continuously demonstrates her three main strengths: result-orientation detail-orientation and client-orientation. This renders her the ideal Quality Assurance Manager for Apogee and Apogee’s clients who come to her with specific requests. Her definition of success is self-realization and reaching her goals in all areas of life, be it professionally or privately.

She is an excellent listener and it is important for her to be understood, making her a skilled communicator. The respect for boundaries is very important to her. This is why seems to be rather introverted when meeting someone for the first time until she understands her clients. Her way of working is that she listens to Apogee’s clients feedback, analyses the problem, finds the solution and communicates the results.

Vasso has the diverse functions of Quality Assurance Manager, Developer and Analyst at Apogee. As she describes success as a sense of fulfillment on every level including all professional and private aspects, she is capable of mastering and balancing these multiple functions elegantly and efficiently. Her quiet and soothing personality fits the saying ‘still waters run deep.

In fact, professionally, she is a very gifted trainer of Apogee Essence WCMS proven by only positive feedback she receives from Apogee’s clients. Her talent and experience allow her to spontaneously give a tailored class. In private, she is playing ping pong successfully, her team won important national and international competitions. She likes working at Apogee due to the team spirit as she feels free to express herself in front of her kind, nice, and talkative teammates.

Being in a state of constant evolution, Vaggelis describes himself as an ‘average graphic designer with better taste than some others’. At Apogee, he is considered a creative genius, the best designs having been drafted and developed by him, for example http://www.bottaccio.co.uk/. As he has a degree in web development, he would rather regard himself a Senior Web Developer. His modesty is but an indication of his true artistic talent that cannot be awarded or taken by any degree.

He loves spending his time with people he loves. Being mostly self-taught and self-made, he is always updated about the most recent technological developments. The Greek name Vaggelis means ‘angel’ in English. Anyone spending some time around him and explaining any design, hardware or software problems to him, will agree that this name perfectly suits him.

As a member of the sales department at Apogee, Maria enjoys the team’s trust to accurately and actively represent Apogee’s products and services to prospective customers because of her outgoing, positive and social personality.