Thymios Papadopoulos is Director and Head of Strategy at Olympia Group, a private investment group based in Athens with c.€1.5 billion in assets, investing across technology, retail & distribution, and other sectors.
Thymios oversees the group’s investment strategy and leads Strategic projects and transformation initiatives across Olympia’s portfolio companies, which include EntersoftOne, Sunlight, Public, Westnet, Sleed, Box NOW, and others.
Prior to joining Olympia Group, Thymios held investment and strategy roles in the US, the UK, and Greece. Most recently, at Eurobank, he oversaw part of the bank’s Business and Technology Transformation program. Before that, he was an investment professional at Saranac Partners, a private asset management firm in London. Thymios began his career as a management consultant with Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) in Palo Alto, California.
Thymios holds a diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and an MSc and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Discussion Framework: As banking grows more embedded, personalised and platform-driven, competition is shifting from products and channels to ownership of the customer relationship itself. This session examines how incumbent banks, neobanks, payment networks and digital ecosystems are vying to become the customer's primary financial interface.
Central Question: In the next decade, who will own the customer relationship: the institution that holds the account, or the platform that controls the experience?
