Στέλιος Πανάρετος

Results driven IT Manager with more than 35 years of experience guiding and leading teams, in more than 18 countries, to exploit their greatest potential. Always bringing forth the leadership skills necessary to foster growth in dynamic environments.

Expert in cultivating strong relationships with business partners, internal and external customers, resulting in innovative solutions,
maximizing opportunities for potential market differentiation and growth. Proven ability to motivate teams and keep them on-task to
meet demanding deadlines.

Highly skilled business process transformation expert with innovative thinking and excellent ability to transpose vision to digital reality. Handling of multi-million € budgets, with high level stakeholder engagement, change-delivery-programme-IT management all in the most complex of environments.

Extensive experience from a variety of leading global roles mainly in Austria, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Indonesia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Philippines, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK. Current role as IT Retail Manager includes handling of multi million contracts required for the day to day business of almost 600 Retail gas stations spread over several companies in Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, North Macedonia, Croatia.

As a professional he has been privileged with awards such as SAP Quality Award (excellence winner), e-volution Award (silver &
bronze), FuturEdge Award (global winner) and Manager of the Year all of them with a clear focus on digital transformation. Keynote speaker in the areas of Retail sites digital transformation and Oil & Gas digital journeys focusing on the Retail site of the future and Linkedin article writer in change management, innovation and transformation areas