Meet Our Team
Optiscale founders come from the Academic and Business worlds and they share Digital Innovation, Operations Research, Mathematics and Software development skills that supports optimization processes, training at the highest level and claim proven business acumen. They are highly experienced on cutting-edge technologies for data handling, authentication, business logic, and on technologies that support optimization. They all have worked in industrial applications or have taken part in the commercialization of optimization solutions.
George Zois
CEO
Co-Head of the Algorithms and Discrete Optimization (ADOPT) Research Group at ELTRUN and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business. With over a decade of experience in several EU-funded and private consulting projects across diverse industrial sectors, including process manufacturing, transport and logistics, he specializes in the design and analysis of exact and near-optimal algorithms for complex, real-world optimization challenges, such as production scheduling and transportation. He is also a co-founder of Avoravo, a tool for cost-optimized Managed Print Services (MPS), currently utilized by a leading Greek company in Office Automation Systems. He holds a Ph.D. from Sorbonne University on algorithmic problems for energy and temperature-efficient computing.
Yiannis Mourtos
RnD Advisor
Professor of “Mathematics of Operations Research” in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is the Director of ELTRUN (2021-2024) and the Head of the ADOPT group. He conducts both theoretical and applied work with a primary focus on Mathematical Programming and Combinatorial Optimization.
His interests in more applied fields are interdisciplinary and include applications of optimization in manufacturing and transport, along with decision support and the design of related information systems. He holds a PhD from the Operational Research Department, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Konstantinos Kaparis
CRO
Associate Professor of “Quantitative Methods in Operational Research” in the Department of Business Administration, at the University of Macedonia. He plays a pivotal role as the Co-head of the Quantitative Methods and Decision Analysis Lab (QMEDAL) and maintains a robust collaboration with ELTRUN through his involvement in EU-funded alongside numerous research initiatives with the Optiscale team members. He holds a PhD in Operational Research from the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University.
Stathis Plitsos
CTO
He is a Senior Researcher with the ADOPT research group at ELTRUN and serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Management and Technology at the University of Piraeus. Previously, he worked as the Technical Lead and Development Director at Deepsea Technologies. His research centers on combinatorial optimization and decision support systems. He holds a PhD in Integrated Methods and Systems for Optimization and Decision Support from the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
George Doukidis
Strategy and Development Advisor
Professor of eBusiness in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He was a member of the University Council, Director of the ELTRUN (until 2021), director of AUEB Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit and co-founder of AUEB’s ACEin (the start-up incubator). He has acted as consultant or board member in more than 50 local or international organizations in the fields of business development, innovation and re-engineering, digital transformation, e-business and business analytics. He was the first chairman of TANEO (the Greek New Economy Fund of Funds) and the director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre of AUEB and currently he is an independent board member of ATHEX. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught in the 80s.