Breaking the Rules
Business Partners | Jul-Aug, 2025

A company’s ability to break the rules isn’t revolutionary—it’s evolutionary. AmCham Greece’s new Rule Breaking Leadership Survey 2025, presented at the Chamber’s 9th Women in Business Forum on June 4, 2025, revealed the contradictions, paradoxes, and deeper truths behind the risk and innovation culture of Greek companies. Do employees really feel safe enough to think…

Thriving Through Collaboration” The AmChams Regional Economic Summit 2025
Business Partners | Jul-Aug, 2025

More than 150 participants from 17 countries across Southeast and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia came together in Athens on June 12-13, 2025, to share insights, promote regional trade and investment, and reaffirm their shared conviction that trade, innovation, and sustainable growth cannot flourish in isolation. In today’s tumultuous global landscape, amid increasing…

Collective Prosperity Through Stronger Alliances
Business Partners | Jul-Aug, 2025

Inspired by a European Parliament plenary session he attended as a high school student, Thessaloniki-born Stavros Piperidis resolved early on to pursue a career in international relations. Demonstrating outstanding commitment to his goal, he earned a BA in International and European Studies from the University of Macedonia and an MA in International Relations from the…

The EU AI Act: The BDO Legal Guide to the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act) and Its Impact on Companies
By Christina Kalogeropoulou, Head of Legal Department, BDO Greece | Business Partners, Jul-Aug, 2025

The first comprehensive regulation on AI by a major regulator anywhere, the EU’s AI Act endeavors to ensure better conditions for the development and use of this innovative technology.   Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence, also known as the AI Act, constitutes a milestone in the regulation of emerging technologies. It ensures that AI…

Orchestrating the Future
Business Partners | Jul-Aug, 2025

In an era where every business is becoming a digital business, and where complexity is both a risk and an opportunity, workflow orchestration is emerging as the invisible infrastructure that makes everything possible. Business Partners reached out to Yiannis Nasios, Regional Sales Manager for Eastern Europe at BMC Software, to find out more about his…

Deciding for the Future: AI’s Evolving Role In Governance and Decisionmaking
By Kyriakos Andreou, Partner, PwC Greece | Business Partners, Jul-Aug, 2025

According to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, it is not the strongest nor the most intelligent of the species that survive, but those who are the most adaptable to change. The time we live in is one of structural changes in numerous fields, with artificial intelligence playing a pivotal role in the paradigm…

Fashioned to Lead
Business Partners, Jul-Aug 2025

In this Business Partners exclusive, Elis Kiss, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Greece, opens up about her journey into journalism, her passion for fashion as a form of cultural expression, and her thoughts on the evolving role of women in today’s business landscape. With a distinctive voice that bridges culture, fashion, and contemporary thought, Elis Kiss has…

Members’ corner BP 139
Business Partners Jul-Aug 2025

NEW MEMBERS The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce welcomes its newest members 3K Investment Company asset management and mutual funds   Aesthet – AZ Exclusive Trading women’s fashion and jewelry   Agrexpo food and beverage production and exports   Aioliki Mpelecheri energy   Aioliko Parko Lykovouni energy   Aioliko Parko Arkadias – Reninvest energy   Aioliko…

From Athens to Washington: A Timely Move with Global Ambitions
By Alexandra Loli | Business Partners, Jul-Aug, 2025

At a time when US–Greece relations are at an all-time high, AmCham Greece has taken a bold and timely step by establishing a formal presence in Washington DC. In this exclusive interview with Alexandra Loli, Business Partners Publisher and Editor in Chief, Katerina Sokou, Executive Director of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in the United…