The Yasmo Live Team

Management Team | External Partners

Management Team

Areti Kampyli, Founder & CEO

Areti Kampyli, Founder & CEO: At the age of 23 Areti left Athens, Greece to do her Master's in Media and Communications at the 'London School of Economics'. Graduating from the LSE, her life in London started with a most promising career at the 'Ogilvy Group' as a Corporate Advertising Manager, specialising in B2B advertising and producing global marketing campaigns for clients like Delta Air Lines and British Telecom. After a few utterly educational years with Ogilvy, Areti founded Yasmo Live, managing to gather a development team of exceptional people who developed a groundbreaking product, experiencing together a most rewarding roller coaster that every company set-up proudly involves. Areti is responsible for the establishment of affiliations between Yasmo Live and its partners and she is the person to talk to if you wish to use Yasmo Live at your venue or forthcoming event.

Michael Lekkas, Co-Founder & CTO

Michael Lekkas, Co-Founder & CTO: Michael is the person who sculptured the idea behind Yasmo Live. He is the creator of a technically unparalleled onsite conference networking system and a most thorough software developer, to whom Yasmo Live owes its technological uniqueness in the conference and event circuit. He holds an MSc in Software engineering from the University of Abertay Dundee in Scotland and excels at bringing database applications and services to the mobile space. Michael is the one to talk to about your technical requirements.

External Partners

Amit Thakrar, Senior Web Developer

Amit Thakrar, Senior Web Developer: With web-based integration for high-profile companies and individuals, Yasmo Live enlisted the services of Amit from WebMotionUK. As an experienced developer and project manager with a strong interest in usability and design, he has helped us to bridge the gap between our front end design and back end database. Amit holds a BEng in Computer Science from City University in London, and has been in the Web development industry for the last 9 years. He is able to offer not only a design service but also the solutions that make up the backbone of our website in interactivity and functionality.

Heidi Houzet, Senior Graphic Designer

Heidi Houzet, Senior Graphic Designer: Yasmo Live acquired its distinguishable brand identity in the hands of Heidi, who excels at brand development for innovative products and services. She formulates designs from concept through to artwork and she has assigned and directed design teams for large organisations in the UK. In 2003 she won the Best Merit award for Most Effective Long Term Communication Campaign and a Gold Construction Marketing Award for Best Use of Advertising.

Stefanos Papadatos, Animation Developer

Stefanos Papadatos, Animation Developer: Stefanos takes all the credit for the idea generation and creation of the Yasmo Live video. With a BA in architecture from the University of Thessalia in Greece he demonstrates great talent in interior design for commercial spaces. Having always been fascinated by both architectural design and animated technology he developed a great skill in 2D and 3D animation using a variety of creative media including sound and video editing. He has produced commercial animations for some of the biggest brands in Greece among which 'Frulite' for which he won the 2009 'Mad4Video' award for the best animated advertising spot.

Jennifer Hicks, Public Relations Director

Jennifer Hicks, Public Relations Director: Starting out her career in politics with US Senator Sam Nunn from Georgia and as a media spokesperson for the Department of Energy, Jennifer knows how to tell a story. A 20 year veteran of the tech industry from mainframe computers to web 2.0 technologies, she's logged a lot of time as an attendee at conferences and events. In 2001, she founded the global public relations firm of ink Communications and bGrand Group. Jennifer broke new ground with ink as a virtual agency pioneer, operating across borders to help clients from North America to EMEA to Asia Pacific translate their publicity efforts into a competitive advantage.

Sharona Meushar, Social Media Director

Sharona Meushar, Social Media Director: Sharona is a both an old school and new media guru. She is an accomplished marketing and media consultant working with the international boutique PR firm ink Communications. She has worked in the competitive technology industry for over a decade. Her experience enables her to bring a unique blend of strategic marketing talent to all fields of business, including content development, event management, and web 2.0. Sharona graduated from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University with her Bachelors degree and completed her studies with an MBA from Kiryat Ono Academic College.