ECONOMY

Entrepreneur behind leading professional certification firm awarded

Entrepreneur behind leading professional certification firm awarded

The Athens University of Economics and Business has bestowed its annual entrepreneurship award on Byron Nikolaidis, the president of the non-profit Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and founder/president of PeopleCert.

The award was in recognition of Nikolaidis's efforts to expand the professional qualification testing company in the midst of the Greek crisis and develop it into a company that is active in more than 200 countries today and employs more than 320 people.

Speaking at the prize-giving, which took place during the graduation ceremony of the university's masters' program in administrative science and technology, Associate Professor George Lekakos hailed Nikolaidis for “transforming PeopleCert into a global leader” at a time when “Greece was being tested by the economic crisis.”

Receiving the award, Nikolaidis stressed that the key to his success is “team work, in combination with four principles: quality, innovation, passion and integrity, which permeate every activity, not just of the management, but of the entirety of the company's personnel.”

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