Vassilis Noussias
BSc
Chief Executive Officer
Vassilis Noussias is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Finmatek, an innovative RegTech firm that provides technologically sophisticated solutions to investment firms and banks. Our reporting platform assists such firms in fulfilling their regulatory reporting requirements.
Prior to joining Finmatek, Vassilis was employed at Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Ltd for 11 years where he held various roles across Regulatory Reporting and Operations while serving as a subject matter expert in the field of Derivatives. Vassilis was instrumental in planning & implementing a wide range of regulatory reporting regimes and managed the implementation for EMIR Reporting for the Group in 2014. At Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Ltd Vassilis also held the position of Clients’ Assets Oversight Officer and was responsible for the Safeguarding of the firm’s Clients’ Assets. Previously, Vassilis was located in London where he managed the OTC Derivatives Valuations Department for Bank of America / Merrill Lynch. At Bank of America / Merrill Lynch, Vassilis, supervised the upgrading of the bank’s automated client valuation system for equity linked derivatives and structured products. Prior to London, Vassilis was located in Athens, Greece where he traded equities and was based on the trading floor of the Athens Stock Exchange.
Vassilis received his BSc in Accounting & Finance from the American College of Greece. Vassilis holds the CySEC Advanced Exam and the A2 Certificate of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission. Vassilis is also a Certified Project Manager and holds the PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner certification.
Minas Patsalides
BSc, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Minas Patsalides is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Finmatek. Minas received his BSc and PhD degree from the University of Cyprus. He graduated with the highest mark for his year from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His Ph.D research and his efforts in communicating the production results to the electricity industry and related authorities assisted in the early adoption of regulations for installing Photovoltaic Systems in Cyprus electricity network.
Prior to joining Finmatek, Minas worked as a Software Developer for 8 years developing web, mobile and IoT/Smart applications using a variety of programming languages/technologies including AngularJS, React, Angular 2, Ionic, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, .Net, Sharepoint etc. He also specializes in data analysis of big datasets using statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and other tools to create predictive models and analytics. Previously he worked as a researcher at the FOSS Research Center/PV Technology Laboratory (University of Cyprus), and as a lecturer/certified Instructor at universities/academies/governmental entities including University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, School of Certified Professionals, Cyprus Productivity Center and Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus. Minas has published more than 30 scientific articles in journals, conference proceedings, and has also co-authored 1 book chapter.
Demetris A. Tsingis
BSc, FCA, BFP, MBA, Ch. MCSI, CF
Non-Executive Director
Demetris founded FINCAP Advisers in late 2016 as its Managing Partner, previously serving as a Partner heading the Financial Regulation & Advisory departments, the London Office and the Executive Academy departments of one of the leading advisory firms of Cyprus.
Specialised in Private Equity while at Arthur Andersen/Deloitte London, in M&A in BNP Paribas New York and in Private Banking and wealth management at Bank of Cyprus he has a wealth of experience in the financial services industry for over 21 years now. He was worked with many regulators inclusive of FCA, CBC and CySEC helping companies get authorized and manage their regulatory reporting requirements over various service lines inclusive the control functions (compliance support, risk management and internal audit) as well as in regulatory reporting and accounting/audit requests. Furthermore, he specialized in corporate finance advisory work for the financial services industry participating in various transactions inclusive of ECM, DCM and M&A in the space.
Demetris has further served as a local Councillor of Strovolos Municipality (2007-2016), a board member of the Nicosia Sewerage Board (2012-2016) and as President of Strovolos COOP Bank in 2014. In 2018-2019 he served as a board member of the National Betting Authority and in 2019 he was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) Board, the only remaining state-owned bank in Cyprus and in 2021 appointed Chairman of the Board until he resigned end of 2022. He is further serving since 2018 as the first Honorary Consul of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to Cyprus.
Demetris holds a BSc in Government & Economics (LSE) with 1st Class Honours and an MBA with Honours (top 20% of the class) in Finance, Entrepreneurial Management and Private Equity & Venture Capital (Wharton Business School) with a Fulbright Scholarship.
He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), a practicing member of the ICPAC Cyprus and of the ICAEW UK, a CYSEC advanced/AML examination holder, a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments (Ch. MCSI), a Corporate Finance qualification holder from ICAEW, an approved HRDA External Trainer, an Insolvency Practitioner, an Insurance Advisor and a licensed Mediator amongst other qualifications. He further is a part-time PhD candidate in Entrepreneurship with Warwick Business School (ESRC Scholarship) researching on platform strategy.