tl;dr


NOMAD
Roaming around with a laptop, burning through crypto earnings to build digital education products that teach life skills.

GENERALIST LIFE
Believer in a generalist(80%) approach to work and life.

PRODUCT X EDTECH
10+ years of experience in product. In particular digital tech and startups.

Worked in aerospace, VC, blockchain, fintech, APIs and marketplaces in London, Berlin and Singapore. Currently building Afterhours.

I want to help build the future of adult lifelong learning via Afterhours

THE GOOD LIFE
Slow, quiet, simple life. Small circle. Good food. Deep experiences.







(long version)


Born in Cyprus.
At school: high marks & low behaviour scores. Cared more about hobbies & athletics than academics.
Consumed by tech through tech magazines and video games and decided to study engineering.

Hated maths and physics until they clicked and then fell in love with them.
Got into Imperial College London studying Aerospace Eng.
Worked on Future Projects at Airbus. 10 year design cycles were hard to swallow so I left aerospace.

Discovered Design though the RCA and transitioned from hardcore science to eng design.
Started reading about startups, decided to break into digital tech.
Countless rejections.

Emailed Roberto at InReach Ventures, a VC fund in London. Offered to work for free. We had coffee. He gave me a job as an Analyst and -in retrospect- openned the door to tech and startups.

With time I realised I wanted something that combined tech, design and business. I thought that was utopia. He pointed me towards product.
It has since become my abs passion.

Moved to Berlin to join Neufund, a blockcahin startup tokenising equity. Was paid in BTC. It was 2016.
Then back to London as a Technical Product Manager at Nexmo, a communications’ API company.
6 month traveling then moved to Singapore to join GRAB Deliveries as their youngest SPM.

Absolutely loved my PM career yet decided to abandon it in 2021 to build cool edtech products with cool people✌️

the good life

The ultimate objective.
Philosophy:
x Alain de Botton
x Epicurus
x Aristotle
x Ralph Waldo Emerson
x Jordan Peterson

  • philotimo
  • eudaemonia
  • authenticity
  • limted f*cks
  • balance
  • wide open heart
  • quiet slow monastic life
  • dangerous but in control
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Greek Ethos
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Slow Movement
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Virtue Theory
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Essentialism

edtech & learning

Closest thing to a mission.

My biggest dream is to build the future of adult learning.

I do that via Afterhours: Duolingo for life skills.

  • Transdisciplinary education (generalists)
  • Game design x learning
  • Believer that edu is the most powerful tool we have to shape the future
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Game Design
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Instructional Design
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Science of learning
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Edtech building
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Edu x AI

product building


My meraki.
Product is my passion and Marketing is my love affair.
  • Design for human not user
  • Craftsmanship.Attention to Detail
  • Forgiveness > Approval
  • Peaceful Execution
  • Rich intimate delightful experiences
  • Emotion-lead design
  • Principles first, Art second, People third
  • Soft spot for typography

CV→

PRODUCT BUILDING
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Technical + Analytics
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Systems Design
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Psychology & Behavioural Econ 
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Design


MARKETING
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Branding
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Growth

athletics
travel
food


etc
Gym, adventuring, hunting down food spots.
  • 20% city - 80% wild
  • Water Pokemon
  • Love cooking, love eating more
  • Collector of designer toys and boards

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Freediving
66m 4’static
3xNRs
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Skydiving
(~80-B)
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Wakeboarding
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Snowboarding
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Swimming

f&f


Family & Friends.
What’s most important and precious.
What makes everything possible and worth it.
  • Partner in life and biz with people you love, respect and trust
  • Quality over Quantity

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