Mrs Kourkoumeli has 27 years of experience in the banking sector, with extensive involvement in the NPE market, as well as in strategic planning, risk management, and project management. She has also taken on leadership roles in large-scale projects at Piraeus Bank aimed at the bank’s transformation.
Specifically, Mrs Kourkoumeli has worked as Assistant Credit Analyst in CITIBANK N.A. – Greece (1997-1999), and as Settlement Associate in Morgan Stanley (2000-2004) in the team for convertible bonds, GDR’ s και warrants, and evolved to Supervisor referring directly to the senior management.
Since 2004, she has joint Piraeus Bank, while she, over the years, has consecutively taken on the below position, namely, Supervisory of the Retail Reporting Unit (2004-2008), Head of Special Issues Servicing Unit (SISU) (2009-2014), Head of Corporate RBU Strategy (Recovery Banking Unti) (2014-2019), Head of NPE Strategy, Planning & Monitoring (Non-Performing Management Unit) (2019-2022), while today, holds the position of the Head of NPEMU – Securitizations & Participations, in which she is responsible for the overall management of the NPE portfolio across Piraeus Bank’s Group, including the development and implementation of the NPE and REO strategy.
Moreover today, she is Vice Chairwoman in the Board of Directors of the companies SIRRUS SINGLE MEMBER S.A., SEVTHIS SINGLE MEMBER S.A. and INTRUM BTB SINGLE MEMBER S.A., while she is also Non-Executive Member in the Board of Directors of the companies INTRUM HELLAS REO SOLUTIONS S.A., STRIX AMC and STRIX GP.
Mrs Kourkoumeli is holder of an MSc in International Banking and Financial Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and of an Honours degree in Economic Sciences from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Department of Economics.