• Christos Michaelides
    President, Cyprus Federation of Employers and Industrialists
    Christos Michaelides was born in Limassol in 1959, he is married and father of three children. He studied at the Erlangen/ Nurenberg University in Germany Business Administration (M.B.A.), with specialization in marketing and operational research. With the completion of his studies, he worked in the Marketing and New Product Development Department of multi-national Uni Lever. Returning to Cyprus in 1987 Christos worked as CEO for Cyproservus, a Management company dealing with the offshore companies. He subsequently founded Cypronetwork that gradually is developed in the Cypronetwork Group of Companies providing services in the fields of Market Research and Consulting in Cyprus, Greece and the Middle East.

    He was a Co-founder and General Secretary of the Association of International Business Activities, Special Advisor to the Greek Foreign Trade Promotion Agency.

    He is:
    - Chairman of the Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (OEB)
    - Ex-President and Honorary President of the Cyprus Management Consultants Association
    - Member and Ex-President of the Board of Cyprus Opinion Poll Enterprises Association
    - Ex-Board Member of the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry
    - Ex-Vice President of the Cyprus-Greek Business Association
    - Ex-Board Member of the Cyprus Ports Authority
    - Honorary Member of the International Business Association (CIBA)
    - Member of the CEO Assembly and Boards of the multinational networks Scholz & Friends (Communication) and Horwath HTL (Hotel, Tourism & Leisure).
    - Member of ESOMAR (European Society of Opinion and Marketing Research)
    - Consultant and Rep of the Hellenic Export Promotion Organization
    - CMC (Certified Management Consultant) by the International Management Consultants Association (IMCA) and the Cyprus Institute of Technology for Management, Marketing and Human Resources.
    - Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
    - Accredited Consultant with the Human Resource Development Authority
    - Honorary member of the Cyprus International Enterprises Association

    He is a Certified Management Consultant of IMCA and has over 25 years experience in the fields of Management and Marketing, Consulting, Market Research, Communication, Strategic Planning and Operations with extensive experience in Hotel, Tourism and Leisure, Trade, Industry, Energy and Foreign Direct Investments.