Yannis Papachristou

Yannis Papachristou

Deputy CEO, Chipita Foods, Greece

Deputy CEO-Commercial & member of BOD Chipita S.A Sep 2020 – Present 1 year 7 months Mr. Yannis Papachristou is from July 2016 the General Manager of Greece-Cyprus of Coca-Cola Hellenic. Previously he held the position of Commercial Director for Russia in the Coca-Cola Hellenic Group, having responsibility for Russia’s trade organization with about 5,000 people in 6 regions. He started his career at Johnson & Johnson and continued to L’Oréal as Marketing Director for Greece afterwards in L’Oréal International (Europe Zone 10) and later in Consumer Division General Manager for Hungary, Greece and Cyprus, Russia. He is a Board Member of ECR Hellas, Brain Regain and Advisory Board of CEO Club. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MBA from the High School of Economics in Geneva, specializing in strategic planning. He is married and has two children.