Athanasios Zarkalis
Independent Non-Executive Member
Mr. Athanasios Zarkalis was elected as Independent Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece in July 2022.
Mr. Zarkalis possesses significant professional experience and capabilities, having held several senior positions in the private sector and having diverse managerial experience with an emphasis on Commercial, Retail and Strategy experience.
With more than thirty (30) years in diverse and highly competitive business environments, twenty (20) of which in the telecommunications sector, Mr. Zarkalis possesses extensive experience having served in positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in his most recent role as Chair & Chief Executive Officer at WIND Hellas Telecommunications S.A. (2009-2022). Mr. Zarkalis started his career in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector (Procter & Gamble, Tasty Goods, Fort James Corporation), where he remained until 1999, when he moved to the telecommunications industry. In his 20-year career in telecommunications, he has assumed positions of increasing responsibility, initially in the commercial sector of Vodafone Greece, and subsequently (2007) at Hellas Online (HOL) as Chief Executive Officer.
Since 1 October 2023, Mr. Zarkalis has been serving as Non-Executive Chair of the Board of Ethniki Insurance.
Mr. Zarkalis holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (Greece), as well as a Master of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware (USA) and an MBA from Henley Business School (UK).