Panos is a tech entrepreneur with a background in economics and finance. Panos co-founded Multiwave with his brother Tryfon in 2015. He has since chaired the Company’s board, oversaw Multiwave’s pivot from a metamaterial software company to a medical imaging innovator, led the company’s investment strategy helping it raise more than CHF 23m since inception in dilutive (CHF 11.5m) and non-dilutive capital (CHF 11.5m) and leads the company’s commercial and business strategy.
His entrepreneurial journey started at McGill when he founded the Sunrise Fund, a micro-fund which we co-led for more than 2 years while Vice-President of the McGill Entrepreneur’s Club. He started his career as an economist at the World Trade Organization (2002-2010) managing the organization’s only multi-agency $400m fund on least developed country trade programs. While at the WTO, he was elected director of the WTO Pension Fund with $300m under management. Prior to co-founding Multiwave, Panos established the international trade practice at an international FMCG Company in London (2010-2014). Panos was elected investment director at the company’s pension fund where he oversaw investment decisions for the $3 billion fund portfolio.
Since 2015, Panos has leveraged his network in tech and venture capital to gather momentum in support of cutting-edge science, engages in training to help young deep-tech entrepreneurs and is opportunistically an angel investor.
Panos speaks French, English and Greek and is proficient in Spanish. He was recently captain of the Swiss national tennis team at the ITF World Tennis Masters Championships, being ranked 6th in his age category (45+) in Switzerland.
He earned his BA and MA in Economics at McGill University and Concordia University, respectively. He played Varsity Tennis and Soccer at McGill in consecutive years between 1996 and 2000.