Haris Neophytou
Haris Neophytou is the founder and Managing Director of IF being responsible for shaping the company's overall corporate strategy and technology agenda while overseeing the company's R&D core function. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus and an MBA from the Cyprus International Institute of Management. He is responsible for delivering high-value consulting, implementation and project management services to the company’s clientele. He drives the international expansion of the company by increasing the network of both R&D partners and clients. He performs both scheduling and controlling of company’s resource allocation across projects and business activities in order to ensure maximum efficiency while maintaining the quality standards of the company in delivering optimal business results. In his previous job assignment he was leading the R&D efforts of a prestigious telco, PrimeTel Plc. Within PrimeTel he was responsible for the funded Research Projects of the company and was involved in many R&D projects such as FP7-ICT, CIP projects were he undertook successfully various roles spanning from project coordinator to workpackage and task leader. Indicatively he was involed with FP7-ICT projects SmoothIT and MIMAX, CIP-IST-PSP project T-SENIORITY, EUREKA Celtic projects R2D2 Networks and MOTSWAN, EUREKA EUROSTARS project ASPIS, Research Promotion Foundation projects IPTV Commerce, VCNM, WDM-PON and POLY-BIO. Areas of expertise include large critical infrastructures, e-inclusion, e-government, IPTV, overlay networks, fuzzy cognitive maps and medical informatics.