Michael Tsamaz is

OTE Group OTE is the national telecommunications provider of Greece. OTE may also refer to: * Ocean thermal energy conversion, a renewable energy source * Oda of Haldensleben (978–1023), daughter of the Margrave of the North March, Theoderich * On- ...

(Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A.) Chairman & CEO since November 3, 2010. He joined OTE Group in 2001 and became Head of

COSMOTE COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS S.A. ( el, COSMOTE ΚΙΝΗΤΕΣ ΤΗΛΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΕΣ Α.Ε.) known as just Cosmote is the largest mobile network operator in Greece. The company is headquartered in Athens and is a fully owned subsidi ...

in 2007. Since 2001, Michael Tsamaz held several senior roles within OTE, overseeing the course of its international subsidiaries. He has served as BoD member for a number of OTE & COSMOTE international subsidiaries. He also served as BoD member of EE, UK. Michael Tsamaz is also Chairman of the Board of Telekom Romania Communications S.A. He is a MoB of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) since July 2016 and chairs the Digital Economy Committee since November 2016. Prior to his tenure at OTE Group, he held high ranking positions in Marketing, Sales & General Management for multinational companies such as Vodafone and Philip Morris. On September 27, 2013 Global Telecoms Business ranked Michael Tsamaz in the 84th place among 100 most powerful businesspersons in telecommunications sector globally.

Biography

Michael Tsamaz was born in 1959 in Kaissariani, Athens and was grown up in Aghios Dimitrios.“When television makes history”.
Ekathimerini.com. 11.04.2018 His father worked as an engineer in a quarry. His father's origin was from Philadelphia, Asia Minor, while his mother’ roots were in Chania,

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cypru ...

. Michael Tsamaz holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick,

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...

and after the completion of his studies he returned in

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wit ...

. He is a father of two.

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