BIOGRAPHIES

Sakis Lindras

I was born in Thessaloniki on May 10, 1970.
In 1988, I finished the basic Greek education and was admitted to T.E.F.A.A. of Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki.
Athletics athlete, from 1982 to 1986.
Volleyball player from 1986 to 1994 at A2 level. Conquest of the Panhellenic children’s championship with the team of Alexander the Great of Thessaloniki in 1986 with world-class performance. Winning the 32-game championship without losing a set: 96/0 In the same year, I joined the club’s men’s team and promoted it from the 3rd national division to A2.
From 1988 to 2000, an entrepreneur with a factory for the manufacture of cardboard boxes and a permanent staff of 10 people. In 2000, I transfered my business.
In 1993, at the same time, I opened my first restaurant (pizzeria) of the Roma Pizza chain. (franchise)
In 1994, I opened a soda shop.
In 1996, I got married and had two sons.
In 1998, my catering activities began to expand and the restaurants up to 2003 became 4, all franchises of the largest pizza chain in Greece.
In 2003, I opened an Internet café.
From 2003 to 2005, I employed a total of 65 staff in my stores. All these businesses only operate in the summer months since they are touristic.
In 2003, I was hired by a stationery and detergent manufacturing company as a nationwide sales manager.
In 2006, I was hired by a corresponding company as general manager until the end of 2008.
In the second half of 2008, I attended a training at the insurance company MetLife.
In January 2009, I started working for MetLife as an insurance consultant, which I continue until today.
In 2009, I was awarded by MetLife as the largest producer of new life insurance premiums in Greece, Europe and East Asia. In the same year, I was awarded as the largest producer of life cover funds with first place for Greece-Europe-East Asia and eighth place in the world.
Since June 2013, I permanently live in Athens and work as an insurance consultant.
In January 2018, I was awarded as the best and most productive insurance consultant in group insurance companies for 2017 by the Athens central sales branch of MetLife.
In March 2018, I received certification from EIAS and the University of Piraeus for my participation in an educational lecture on cryptocurrencies.
In March 2018, I started expanding my activity for the distribution of units or shares of UCITS or other collective investments.
In July 2018, I obtained the Insurance Consultant License in Cyprus and now I am active in both Greece and Cyprus.
In April 2019, I received the Business Insurable Risk Manager certification from the IFA Academy, internationally awarded and certified by America, Canada, Great Britain, Cyprus and Greece (University of Piraeus). Worldwide, this accreditation is held by only 75 Insurable Risk Managers.

In October 2020 I was accredited as a Crisis, Emergency and Business and Human Team Manager.

Elena Evangelidou

I was born in Thessaloniki on October 5, 1982.
I finished my basic education in 2000 already speaking two foreign languages very well, English and French.
In 2003, I received a scholarship from the IKY (State Scholarship Foundation) and participated in the ERASMUS program, studying for one semester at the University of Applied Sciences in Ikaalinen, Finland. As part of this program and my internship I am involved in organizing events at a Non-Governmental Organization in the capital of Finland, Helsinki. There, I also acquired basic knowledge of Finnish and Swedish.
In 2004, I took part in the Olympic Games in Athens as part of my practical training.
In the first half of 2005, I worked as Secretary to the Vice President at ODIE (Horse Racing Organization of Greece) as well as as Secretary at ESPIT (Association of Editorial Magazine and Electronic Press).
In the second semester of 2005, I took part in an internship program at a transport company in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany as part of my specialization in International Transport. There, I also enhanced my German language skills.
In 2006, I received a new scholarship from a new generation program and worked in the hotel unit of Accor Hotels in Hamburg, Germany, during the World Football Cup.
In 2007, I graduated from the School of Tourism Business Management of the Business Administration department of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly.
From September 2007 until August 2018, I was working in our family business of International Transport based in Thessaloniki.
From September 2012 to August 2013, I obtained a Master’s degree in Industrial Design with a specialization in Service Design at AAS College in collaboration with the English University of Central Lancashire.
From September 2018 to July 2019 I attended an MBA postgraduate program at Les Roches International School of Tourism Business in Switzerland, where I was in charge of a class of 43 people from 28 nationalities.
From June 2019 to August 2020 I was working as a Group Sales Manager in charge of four Marriott International hotel units in Sardinia, Italy.
In September 2020, I returned to Greece and I started an online Internet Marketing Business. There I enhanced my Italian language skills.
In April 2021, I officially established my own business as a Virtual Assistant based in Thessaloniki.
From September 2022, my collaboration with Lindra Consulting began.

Melina Mega

I was born in Athens on July 2, 1992.
I finished my basic training in 2010.
In 2014, I graduated from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Sciences of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
From October 2018 to May 2020, I did postgraduate studies in Public Law and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Since 2018, I have been studying at the Department of Law, School of Law, Political and Social Sciences of the Universite Paris XIII (Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite)
From 2014 to 2017, I worked in the health sector, as an office worker, in the practice of a well-known specialist pathologist.
From 2017 until the end of 2020, I worked in the legal industry, as an office clerk, in a bailiff’s office and in large law firms.
From January 2021, my collaboration with Lindra Consulting began.