Panos Papazoglou is the CMP since July 2010 and effective January 2011 he holds the role of the CSE South Cluster Leader (responsible for Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, FYROM, Albania, Cyprus, Malta, Moldova, Kosovo). He has served as Head of Assurance in Ernst & Young SRL - Assurance Services Romania for two years and focused on the energy and technology sectors. He has also served as CMP and Head of Assurance in Bulgaria for three years. Panos joined Ernst & Young in 1988 and is based in the Athens office. He holds an MA in Economics and an MBA. Besides, Panos is a Qualified Accountant in Greece and Romania. He has sound management experience and supervisory skills gained over the 25 years of being involved in the accounting and audit profession.

Skills
Financial audits in the energy and technology industries in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria. EY partner since 2000 with executive responsibilities within the organisation as well as audit engagements responsibilities.

Professional experience
His extensive exposure to the international environment and in managing cross-cultural teams, in a number of sizeable assurance and advisory projects. He was the leader in a project for the privatisation of twenty (20) companies in Romania. The project involved the execution of financial and operational due diligence on all companies, the development of five (5) years business plan, valuation of the companies, commercialisation of the companies, as well as training of the key executives on financial performance issues. The teams involved were from Romania, Greece, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.

Financial audits on a number of European Commission funded projects in Greece, Romania, Albania and Bosnia. Mr. Papazoglou was leading these financial audits executed in a number of public and non-public sector companies.