Chrysanthos recently joined Amazon Web Services to lead Business Development with Venture Capital firms, Accelerators, and other components of the startup ecosystem, across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Previously he was COO of Living PlanIT, a B2B technology company enabling the development of innovative, intelligent sustainable urban-scale environments.

Prior to Living PlanIT, Chrysanthos worked at Cisco for approximately 10 years, where he led Services-related investments and acquisitions worldwide. At Cisco he also worked in the IT and Operations departments leading teams focused on business process re-engineering, and large enterprise software migration projects.

He has had broad international experience, having lived and worked in the US (California), Europe (UK and Portugal) and Asia (India) while also providing coverage in Middle East (mainly Dubai and Jordan), South Africa, China and Singapore. Chrysanthos holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University