Georgios Karamanolis has a strong international presence in startup entrepreneurship, digital transformation, government innovation and financial technologies ecosystem serving for more than 15 years in high and C-level positions both in the private and public sector. He has been involved in a wide range of projects, organizations, institutions and technology based startups in Greece and abroad.

During 2009-2012, Georgios Karamanolis coordinated the implementation of major digital transformation & Transparency projects (diavgeia.gov.gr/en), e­-government and other initiatives for the Greek Government. He was a member of the Scientific Committee for the Crowdsourcing Platform “labs.opengov”, the Organizational Committee for the Digital Greece 2020 EU Agenda and Scientific Advisor of the Information Society and the Knowledge ­based Economy group at the National and Technical University of Athens.

He is currently the Co-founder and CTO/CIO of Crowdpolicy technology & innovation company which specializes in the design, development and implementation of digital transformation consulting services & technology integration products for the public and private sector in Greece, Cyprus, Albania & Italy. Coordinated by Georgios Karamanolis, Crowdpolicy is a leading company in the fields of civic tech - govtech (innovation in gov and smart city technology), fintech (innovation in financial transactions and banking industry) and open innovation programs that accelerate startup entrepreneurship.

In the last 10 years, he has coordinated digital transformation interventions in important sectors of the economy, as well as the design of operational infrastructure and actions for the banking sector and with the aim of developing the Greek innovation ecosystem. Mr. Karamanolis is the strategy coordinator of the Greek Fintech Cluster, an initiative to promote open finance and open banking in our country (fintech.net.gr) and has planned fintech entrepreneurship promotion actions such as be finnovative and hackathons. His activities also include the design of open banking digital systems to support banks and the development of value-added services in the Economy by supporting the implementation of the PSD2 European Directive and the open platform finteliox.com.