Harris Antoniou
Founder & Managing Director 
Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd

Harris is the Founder and Managing Director of Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd, a company established to transform the maritime finance space, and provide access to funding for the fleet renewal required to decarbonize the global merchant fleet.

Harris is also the founder of Codrus Capital AG, a company focusing on transformative investments and advice in high impact technologies and real assets. 

Currently an Investor and Board member of Natech SA, a rapidly growing financial software firm that builds and operates 360º Financial Software Solutions Serving Banks, Fintechs, E-money Institutions & Companies. 

Harris was instrumental in the set-up of Snappi, the first fully digital bank in Greece and is a member of its Board of Directors.

Over the past 25 years Harris has held various C-Suite executive and management positions in leading institutions in the financial and investment sectors, focusing on Energy, Commodities and Transportation, debt and equity investments, as well as in investment banking.

He is passionate about technology, education and digital transformation. He was one of the first signatories of the Poseidon Principles, a supporter of United World Colleges in the Netherlands, and member of Abundance 360. Under his guidance NML joined as an associate member Helmepa and United Nations Global Compact. 

Since May 2023 Harris is a board member and treasurer of “Komvos-Node, Networks of Global Hellenism”, a non-profit organization that was established in 2021 in Greece by prominent Greek scholars, scientists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers of Greece and the Hellenic diaspora. KOMVOS aims at promoting dialogue and initiatives related to scientific, technological and societal growth. He is also vice chairman of the Zug Commodity Association.

Harris holds an MSc in Business Administration and Management from the University of Piraeus, Greece, and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University), the Netherlands. He also successfully completed the General Management Program of Harvard Business School.