George Papanikolaou
Human Resources Director, Member of the Executive Committee
Personal Data:
Nationality: Hellenic
Year of Birth: 1976
Recent Job Positions:
Giorgos Papanikolaou has undertaken the post of the Human Resources Director of FOURLIS Group from January 2024, aiming at the development and implementation of appropriate Human Resources strategy in the countries where the Group runs its business. He is responsible for the formation and promotion of the corporate culture, which improves the working environment, reveals and attracts talents, enhances the diversity and the inclusion, increases the productivity and supports the wider strategy and the Group’s goals and targets.
Previous Professional Experience:
He started his career in 2002 at the Financial Department of the Athenian Brewery as a Financial Analyst and subsequently he was promoted to the position of Financial Controller. Afterwards, he followed a different path in his career and in 2007 he was assigned the job of Special Consultant in the Human Resources Division of the National Bank of Greece, aiming at the timely notification and support of the Management at the decision-making. In 2010, he became a member of the multinational pharmaceutical company “Sanofi”, originally at the position of HR Business Partner and afterwards at the position of Talent Management Head responsible for the countries of Middle-Eastern Europe. In 2019 he participated in the Management Team of doValue as head of the Human Resources Unit aiming at the formation and implementation of the Company’s Human Resources Strategy.
He has served as a member of the Management Team of the Hellenic Human Resources Management Institute (HIHR-ΙΜΑD) of the Hellenic Management Association (HMA-EEDE) and as Mentor of postgraduate students of the University of Manchester (Gold Mentor Program).
Education:
ΜΑ Finance, University of Manchester, UK, graduation year 2000
Bachelor in Management & Business Administration, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece graduation year 1998
Professional Certifications:
Certificate, University of Cambridge, UK, 2022: People Analytics, Transforming HR Strategy with data science.
Certificate, SDA Bocconi, Italy, 2021: Leadership Program