Vassilis Kassimatis – Resume

Business Growth Advisor | Executive Trainer | VK365™

Vassilis Kassimatis is a Business Growth Advisor with 34 years of professional experience, including the past 14 years in business advisory. He supports business owners, management teams and organizations in making critical decisions related to growth, organizational development and strategy.

Today, he works primarily with businesses undergoing growth, restructuring, financing or strategic repositioning, as well as with business owners seeking an experienced external perspective to evaluate their options, make better-informed decisions and turn those decisions into action.

His approach is practical, structured and results-oriented, with a strong emphasis not only on strategy development but also on execution, follow-through and measurable progress.

His work is centred around three core areas — Strategy, Coaching and Leadership — and includes:

• business diagnostics and growth roadmap development,
• growth strategy and organizational improvement,
• financing and investment readiness,
• commercial strategy and complex B2B sales,
• business coaching and mentoring for owners and management teams,
• leadership and management development.

His experience and methodologies have been systematized through VK365™, the Business Growth Advisory framework he created to help business owners and management teams gain greater clarity about their businesses, make better decisions and translate strategy into actionable initiatives and measurable progress.

He has maintained a long-standing presence as a Business Advisor on Dragons’ Den Greece, having been selected for the role across consecutive seasons of the programme on both ANT1 and SKAI ΤV. In this capacity, he contributes to the evaluation of business ideas, business plans and investment proposals.

Prior to his advisory career, Vassilis held senior commercial and management positions in major organizations, including COSMOTE (Deutsche Telekom Group) and IDEAL GROUP, with responsibilities spanning commercial strategy, sales development, team leadership and the management of complex B2B projects.

Alongside his advisory work, he has extensive experience as an Executive Trainer, with more than 7,450 participants across training projects and seminars. He designs and delivers programmes in entrepreneurship, leadership, strategic thinking, sales, negotiations and executive development for businesses, institutions and academic organizations in Greece and internationally.

He has an ongoing training collaboration with ALBA Graduate Business School, participating, among others, in consecutive cycles of entrepreneurship programmes such as EQUALL, focused on women’s entrepreneurship. His training collaborations also include organizations and businesses such as OTE GROUP, LafargeHolcim, the University of Cyprus, Personal Security S.A. and Dataphoria.

As part of his work with entrepreneurship and innovation organizations, he also provides mentoring and coaching to emerging business teams. Among them, TLScope, which he coached as part of the SkyImpact Challenge in collaboration with Bizrupt, won first place in the innovation and entrepreneurship competition of the New Heraklion International Airport.

His training approach is grounded in real business data and case studies, bridging strategic thinking with practical application in the day-to-day realities of businesses and organizations.

He holds an MBA from ALBA Graduate Business School, is a certified business mentor, and delivers entrepreneurship and professional development programmes in Greece and internationally.

A phrase that sums up his philosophy:

Because you have to want to be saved, tooς

Consulting can provide clarity, knowledge, tools and guidance. But it cannot replace the willingness to change and take personal responsibility!