2017 Annual Gala Ball - Press Release

19 Jun

Written By HBA

Dear Members & friends,

We would like to thank you all for your participation in our Annual Gala Ball and making this event another success!

Our thanks to the HBA corporate supporters and affiliates.

We hope to see you again in our forthcoming events. Stay tuned!Kind regardsHBA UK Executive Committeehttp://www.hellenicbankers.org.uk/new-member-registration/

Chairman's Speech

Your Excellencies, esteemed guests that flew over from the United States and Greece, our past Chairmen Christo Megalou and Strato Chatzigiannis for honouring us again today, ladies and gentlemen

Today we celebrate what we have achieved in these last 18 months

Led and participated over 20 events
Added over a hundred new members to our HBA network
Reached out to more than 12,000 followers globally via our internet interaction
Established a regular dialogue and found ways to work together with all associations of hellenic interest in the U.K.
A Very successful Ambassadors scheme - people who wish to contribute more and equally to Executive members of board

What are the two pillars of the future

Mentoring and Networking
Content and being platform of communication between the UK, Europe, Greece and Cyprus

Our task is simple

We do the right thing for our members, giving real value for their time spent - it is a luxury and we thank them for that

We aim to give value back to our homeland, with our first event in Athens in H2 2017, a close cooperation with Lovegreece and the British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce - Looking to establish more ways to work in Cyprus

Aspire to be a home for excellence and a platform for communication of what's Best of Greece and Cyprus

It requires focus and commitment, and for this I can only but thank the HBA Executive Committee

Stratos Chatzigiannis

Louis Loizou

Viki Fotopoulou

Emmanuel Androulakis

Thanos Karagiannidis

George Ercan

and more importantly our 'new' mothers who we miss today, Georgia Galouzidi and Maria Irene Alexandraki.

Special thanks to Piraeus Bank for their long term support, Shearman & Stirling, Critical Publics, Loizou & Co, Filos Dynotech RS , Delta Executive Search, The Hellenic American Bankers Association, The Hellenic Hope, Reload Greece, GPWN, The Hellenic Engineers and the Hellenic teams from HSBC and Morgan Stanley as well as our committed HBA Ambassadors: Kelly, Korina, Margarita, Marina, Vassilis, Panos and Konstantinos.

Thanks to Maltby&Greek for the fantastic wine selection and Nannuka for tonight's nanny service.

A great thank you to all, of you for coming here today.

Press links: http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2017/06/11/hbuk-banking-on-charitys-success/

HBA