Senior Management
Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Member
Tassos Kazinos
Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Member
Mr. Tassos Kazinos serves as the Chief Executive Officer, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the Chairman of the Investment Committee of Trastor REIC.
He has more than 30 years of professional experience in the UK, USA, and Greece during which he has successfully assumed senior management positions. Before joining Trastor he worked for Piraeus Bank SA as Head of Real Estate Investments, focusing on debt restructurings and the development of a divestment strategy for the bank’s REO portfolio. He also worked for Argo Capital Management, in the UK, specializing in emerging markets, private equity investments, and the acquisition, development, and management of real estate assets. He has served as an Executive Board Member of the Albert Abela Corporation, a private foodservice management company and hotel group with $1.4 billion in sales, and was responsible for the acquisition, repositioning and administration of hotels, the management and development of in-flight catering facilities, and the sale of non-core subsidiaries. He also worked for Bain & Company, a strategy consultancy company, based in Boston.
Mr. Kazinos holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School and graduated with First Class honors from the London School of Economics with a degree in Industrial and Business Economics.
Chief Investment Officer
George Filopoulos
Chief Investment Officer
George Filopoulos is the Chief Investment Officer of the Company. He manages the investment strategy and the optimal growth of the company’s property portfolio by originating, analyzing, and executing various types of property acquisitions.
He holds 21 years of professional experience and specialization in the real estate sector, implementing a series of investments in Greece and SE Europe. Since 2008, he has been a senior executive at Piraeus Bank Group, providing advisory services to both private and public entities for complex real estate transactions, while acting also as Head of investment management of the private equity fund Trieris Real Estate Ltd. In 2014, he joined the Piraeus Bank Task Force Merchant Banking Division with key responsibilities the strategic exploitation of the Group’s property holdings to unlock capital from effective management of non-performing loans and exposures. In the past, he worked also as a Senior Investment Broker at Cushman Wakefield.
George is a graduate of the Department of Economics and Regional Development of Panteion University, holds a Master’s degree in Real Estate Economics & Finance from the London School of Economics and Executive Certificates in Real Estate Finance & Capital Markets from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Head of Asset and Portfolio Management
George Theodoropoulos
Head of Asset and Portfolio Management
George Theodoropoulos is in charge of the Portfolio and Asset Management of the Company. His main responsibilities are the supervision of the Asset-Portfolio Management Division, as well as, the Technical Division.
He is an executive with specialization in the Real Estate sector with over 20 years of experience in the UK and Greece. He worked in Virgin Group (UK) as Head of Property in Virgin Ware, specialized mainly in retail real estate. He was a founding member of the Real Estate Division of Marfin Bank (thereafter Marfin Egnatia Bank) in 2007, and member of the founding team of MIG Real Estate REIC the same year. He remained in the Real Estate Division of Marfin Bank till 2013. In 2013 he joined Piraeus Real Estate SA, member of Piraeus Bank Group, focusing mainly on corporate and commercial real estate valuations. In 2014 he took over the position of Assistant Manager, in Task Force Merchant Banking Division, at Piraeus Bank, mainly focusing on real estate investment banking and large NPL/NPE re-structuring projects, as well as, active management of the Bank’s REO Portfolio. In 2016 he became Risk & Compliance Officer for Trastor REIC.
George is a member of the Sustainability Council of ULI Greece & Cyprus. He also served the same Organization under the positions of member of the Executive Board and Chair of Young Leaders. He is a graduate of Cass Business School in London, in Management and Systems.
Head of Legal and Compliance Officer
Dimitris Polychronopoulos
Head of Legal and Compliance Officer
Dimitris Polychronopoulos is Head of Legal Department and Compliance Officer of Trastor REIC. He joined the management team in March 2017. As Head of Legal he is responsible for all legal and judicial affairs, the closing of new properties acquisitions by the Company, the support of the existing portfolio management, the corporate governance as well as for the identification and assessment of legal risks that may affect the implementation of the Company’s business planning. At the same time, he serves as Secretary to the Board of Directors.
He has been a lawyer since 2000 and has a broad corporate, business, tax and regulatory framework practice. Before joining the Company, he worked as head of Legal in companies in the telecoms, travel & tourism and real estate sector, serving also as a member of Board of Directors.
Dimitris holds an LLB from the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, an LLM in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick (UK) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Greek Tax Law from the Research Centre of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Finance Manager
Ioannis Letsios
Finance Manager
Mr. Ioannis Letsios is the Finance Manager of Trastor REIC. He joined the Company in 2019, while serving as the Company’s Accounting Manager since 2015, as an external partner.
Mr. Ioannis Letsios has served for more than 40 years as Finance Manager, Certified Auditor, and Chief Accountant in numerous companies in Greece. During the last 20 years, he held the position of Finance Manager in several subsidiaries of Piraeus Bank, including Piraeus Asset Management Mutual funds S.A., Piraeus Securities S.A., Piraeus Wealth Management Securities S.A. Previously he worked as Certified Auditor in SOL S.A. and as Chief Accountant in ELPEN S.A., a pharmaceutical company.
He is a graduate of the Higher Industrial School of Piraeus (current University of Piraeus), Department of Business Administration, and he holds a Class A accounting professional ID from the Economic Chamber of Greece, of which he is a member since 1984.