Marieke Martin received her Bachelors of Science in BioScience and Technology from the University of New Hampshire, and her Masters in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. Currently, she is working toward completing her Ph.D. dissertation in International Business Strategy, from Southern of New Hampshire University. Her area of research focused, under the tutelage of the former chief economist for OPEC, on Emerging Capital Markets, (specifically Eastern European Market nations such as Russia and Turkey), innovation and international new ventures. Ms. Martin has worked in the private sector participating in many government funded research projects focused both in finance and biotechnology. Prior to her recruitment at CitiGroup as a Wealth Manager, she worked as the Northeast Technical Specialist for the German biotech firm Machery-Nagel, a worldwide maker of medical research chemicals and filters, where she worked on corporate and government research project implementation and management, and U.S. and international business development.

Stergios Papageorgiou holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, from the University of Scranton, USA and a Bachelor of Business Administration, from the American College of Greece (Deree), Athens, Greece. He has close to thirty years of professional experience, beginning in NY with a major bank in the areas of Project Finance and Commercial Real Estate, before expanding his career predominantly to the shipping industry. Upon his return to Greece, he has joined Barclays Bank Shipping unit as a Relationship Manager, and following, as a Shipping Manager for a smaller Greek Bank. Subsequently, Mr. Papageorgiou is engaged as a consultant for several shipping debt restructuring projects and serves a container liner company as their Business and Finance Manager. In parallel to his professional career, he has held several teaching positions with several highly esteemed educational organizations, such as the American College of Greece, the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, the Cyprus International Institute of Management and more. Mr. Papageorgiou is an adjunct faculty member and teaches in the BSBA program.

Panagiotis Kalozoumis holds a Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), specializing in theoretical physics and applied mathematics. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher for international and Greek research centers and Universities, including the Center of Optical and Quantum Technologies - Hamburg University (Germany), the Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (France), the Physics Department of the NKUA (Greece) and the Department of Material Science at the University of Patras (Greece). He is author/co-author of 22 publications in high-impact factor, peer-reviewed journals, while his work has been presented in more than 15 international conferences and workshops. At the Hellenic American University, Dr. Kalozoumis serves as the Director of Information Technology and Engineering Programs.