Nicolaos Lavidas
Independent Non-Executive Member, Chairman of Nomination and Remuneration Committee
Personal Data
Nationality: Hellenic
Year of birth 1970
Current Job Position:
2022-present: AB Vassilopoulos SA: CEO and head of the Executive Committee, for AB Vassilopoulos Group, member of Ahold Delhaize Group. AB Vasilopoulos is a company with a turnover of approximately 2 billion euros, 592 stores and 14,000 partners.
2019-2022: Upfield Greece: General Management of the company in August 2019 initially having responsibility for Greece, Cyprus and Albania and then for the wider region of Southeast Europe, additionally taking responsibility for Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Skopje, Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria. A key priority was the strengthening of the existing organization of the newly established company and its split from Unilever following the recent acquisition of the margarine and oils sector by KKR as well as the return of the sector to a growth trajectory.
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-2019: Sklavenitis Group: Initially assumed the role of General Development Manager with the main responsibility of reorganizing the company and creating the appropriate framework in order to support a series of acquisitions, which led to the creation of the largest retail group in Greece with a turnover that exceeded €3 billion, with more than 500 stores nationwide and a workforce of over 30,000 employees. Following the acquisition of Carrefour's activities in Greece in 2016, he assumed the position of General Administrative Director with the main objective the absorption of its local network and smoothly integrating it into the Sklavenitis operating system.
1996-2011 Kraft Foods Greece: In 2009, after a 14-year career in Kraft Food Greece, holding various positions of increasing responsibility, he assumed the position of CEO with the main responsibility for the merger of the local organizations of Kraft and Cadburys, which led to the creation of the largest company in the snacks industry in Greece.
Education:
He holds a postgraduate diploma in International and Commercial Law (1994 - LLM in International and Commercial Law, University of Buckingham, UK, Graduated with Distinction) as well as a graduate in Business Administration (1993, BSc in Business Administration University of Buckingham, UK Graduated with Merit).