Transforming Defense: Perspectives on the Role of Technology and Global Partnerships
By Business Partners | Mar-Apr, 2025

The Interview

Emerging and disruptive technologies are changing the world and the way it operates, transforming sectors and industries in their wake. For defense, this brings challenges as well as opportunities, highlighting the need to invest not only in innovative systems and solutions but also in key relationships and collaborations. Business Partners reached out to Nikolaos Papatsas,…

A New Era of Security: Advancing 21st Century Security® Solutions for Greece’s Armed Forces Modernization
By Dr. Dennis Göge, Vice President & Chief Executive Europe, Lockheed Martin | Business Partners Mar-Apr, 2025

Defense and Security

Today’s challenges demand that we deliver platforms and solutions networked to provide the most advanced and effective capabilities.   For more than a century, Lockheed Martin has delivered tailored solutions for the world’s most challenging security missions. Today, guided by our 21st Century Security® (21CS) vision and with our deep understanding of our customers’ evolving…

Shaping Change: Strengthening Greek-American Ties Through Leadership, Philanthropy, and Partnership
By John D. Saracakis | Business Partners Mar-Apr, 2025

Leaders in Focus

A distinguished business leader and philanthropist, Drake G. Behrakis is President of Marwick Associates, an MA-based real estate investment and development company, and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of The National Hellenic Society, a non-profit organization that strives to preserve and promote the Hellenic heritage in the United States. Interviewed for Business Partners…

Rethinking the Defense Industry
By Alexandros Costopoulos, Founder and CEO of Foresight Strategy and Communications and Secretary General of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce | Business Partners Mar-Apr, 2025

Opinion

The defense industry has traditionally been viewed as an exclusive domain for a select group of large corporations, often deemed too costly, unpredictable, or opaque for smaller companies to participate in. However, recent technological advancements, developments in artificial intelligence, changes in geopolitical and economic norms, and the increase of conflicts in various regions, including Europe,…

Maritime Might
Βy Business Partners | Mar-Apr, 2025

Maritime and Defense

In the runup to DEFEA 2025, Panos Xenokostas, President of the Hellenic Shipyards Association and President and CEO of Onex Shipyards and Technologies Group, talks to Business Partners about the capabilities and potential of Greece’s shipyards to contribute to Europe’s rearmament and Greece’s economic growth.   Europe is rearming and defense budgets are increasing. What…

The Time Has Come For Group Taxation in Greece
By Panagiotis Daveros, Senior Director, Head of Group Tax and Customs, Helleniq Energy | Business Partners Mar-Apr, 2025

Tax Talk

The Greek government announced that group taxation is included in its priorities, with its adoption to be implemented within 2025 and expected to have a significant impact on the country’s business environment.   Taxation in Greece follows a standalone pattern, meaning that each entity is taxed separately, with no possibility of tax offsetting/relief within groups.…