President - CEO
Dimitra, the originator of the venture called EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution). Mother of a rowing champion but also a friend since their age difference is very small. She is an Executive Management postgraduate student of the English-speaking ALBA University and has also studied Hotel Management at Vienna’s Modul University. Since then Dimitra has worked in the area of Public Relations, Event Management, Marketing and Communication at some of the largest hotel companies in Greece, Spain and Austria. One of her successes is her participation in the organization of the NATO conference.
Dimitra continued her successful career with nationwide acclaim in the automotive field. She also participated in setting up a large hotel chain (Grecotel group of 18 hotels). She later worked as a Project Manager at an NGO.
Currently, she is the Commercial Director at SNFCC, where she oversees the country hire department of third-party events, hosting over 500 corporate events, organizations, social events, conferences and ideas dissemination events (such as TEDx Athens). In addition, it oversees visits by heads of state and key figures.
Above all, however, Dimitra is a mother. During her son’s school years, she was always on parenting boards. There she set up on her own initiative a parenting school and, at the same time, she actively participated in the participation of students in European programs, in whatever way, supporting the work of teachers. At the same time, she is a member of the Boards of the Egypt Maritime Club, where athletes have had great success in recent years in Olympic Games, World, European and Pan-Hellenic Championships. Her great love for her son and all the children led her to take more active action today. Although her personal time is minimal, she did not hesitate for a moment to pursue the minimal chances of accomplishing the difficult task of creating EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution). She was inspired to create EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution) after meeting with a 17-year-old girl during one Christmas visit to a girls’ hospitality institution as President of Parents and Guardians of the 1st Old Faliro High School 5 years ago. The young girl’s agony about the future also became Dimitra’s agony, too. Today, however, thanks to her efforts and with the full support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, she is attempting to make a substantial contribution to empowering children living in closed childcare institutions.She speaks English, German and Spanish.
Dimitra is the President and Founder of EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution).
President - CEO
Volunteer & Sports Network Coordinator
Stefanos was born and raised in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sudan. The difficulties helped him to understand from the outset the value of solidarity and help to and from fellow human beings.
Sport allowed him to overcome his difficulties in a beautiful way. In this regard, he has managed to combine his two most beloved sports and children’s occupations through his studies at the Department of Physical Education and Sport (TEFAA) at the University of Athens.
He has had a long career in the private sector in Greece and abroad with his main position of Manager in a marina in Saudi Arabia. However, his love for progress and development has come through attending many certified seminars and postgraduate studies in personal development (Life Coaching). The next step was to deal with the ESCS ecosystem. These elements brought him close to the EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution) team.
At EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution), Stefanos is in charge of managing the volunteer network and organizing sports programs.
Volunteer & Sports Network Coordinator
Psychologist - Career Counselor
Aristeidis Lorentzos was born in Athens. He studied Psychology at Panteion University of Social and
Political Studies. He
also has a Master’s Degree at Counseling and Career Guidance at Psilosophy
School at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He is fellow research of Counseling and Career Guidance Laboratory of the Department of
Educational Studies at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Aristeidis Lorentzos has
working experience as a Psychologist and Career Counselor in many mental health centers of both public and private sector.
At EXELIXI ZOIS, Aristeidis works as a career couselor.
Psychologist - Career Counselor
Mathematics Teacher
Dionysis is trying to share his passion and curiosity for the mysteries of the world with fellow people through mathematics, the secrets of the sea and his active involvement with civic affairs.
His initial graduate studies in Greece (School of Environment, University of the Aegean, Lesvos – Mytilene) and in the UK (Earth and Ocean Science, University of Brighton) were related to environmental studies which he combined with free diving and scuba diving. He has worked in the catering sector and in the press from a very young age until the day he became a diving instructor
and professional diver for marine and fishing works. In 2014 he was accepted at the Mathematics Department of the University of Patras, being able to follow what has always aroused the greatest
excitement for him. Since 2018, i.e. the year he graduated, his love for pure mathematics has become both the motive and tool in order to communicate with children & teenagers and offer them whatever he has learnt through the various jobs he had over the years, everything he has come to understand and whatever he can conceive about mathematics. When he is not teaching mathematics to children, he teaches them to dive with safety by working for diving centers in various Greek islands. What could not have been missing from his everyday life is sports and physical activity. Therefore, Dionysis actively participates in free diving games and devotes his evenings to the apprehension of Algebra and the number theory.
At EXELIXI ZOIS (Life Evolution) Dionysis teaches Maths at the collaborative institutions of children’s care.
Mathematics Teacher
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