Theodore is a Greek national, holds an MSc from City University / Cass Business School (London, UK) in Investment Management and never managed to complete his PhD in Econometrics. He started his professional career as an investment banker and then turned to academia as a lecturer of finance at Cass Business School. Eventually, he discovered his inclination in entrepreneurship as the founder and CEO of the twice awarded EdTech start-up, Match and Teach Me.
Since 2017 he is also the Managing Director of REvive Greece, a non-profit organisation powered and sponsored by Google, with a mission to help young people from the most vulnerable groups (refugees, migrants, unemployed, etc.) integrate into the socioeconomic fabric, by reskilling them on computer programming. In October 2016, on behalf of the initiative Match and teach Me for Integration (an e-Learning platform which helps refugees become software developers and which was the predecessor of REvive Greece) he was among the semi-finalists of the “Innovate For Refugees” at Amman, Jordan. Last but not least, in December 2017, as the Managing Director of REvive Greece he received in Brussels the prestigious Civil Society Prize of the European Economic and Social Committee. A prize which rewarded 5 European civil society initiatives that aim at the labour market integration of newcomers and all the people who are distant from the labour market and require specific support.