Aikaterini Beritsi
Member
Mrs. Aikaterini Beritsi was appointed as Non-Executive Director of National Bank of Greece in July 2019. In July 2021, Mrs. Beritsi was appointed Independent Non-Executive Member of the NBG Board.
Mrs. Beritsi has substantial experience in the Greek Banking sector by holding senior positions at major Greek banks and their subsidiaries, among which Managing Director of EMPORIKI VENTURE CAPITAL and EMPORIKI ASSET MANAGEMENT. Throughout the years 2004-2007 she was Head of EMPORIKI BANK’s Group, supervising and restructuring through Mergers, Acquisitions and Winding-up 46 domestic subsidiaries and 9 international banks.
In addition, she is an expert in corporate governance, following her directorships in three other Greek banks (two of them systemic), where she had a leading role in introducing best practices and addressing significant internal control issues.
In the past, she had served as Member of the Board of Directors and all statutory committees of Piraeus Bank and Eurobank, Chair of the Board of Directors of New Proton Bank and of Proton Bank S.A., as well as Member of the Board of Directors of Credit Agricole Group/Emporiki Bank’s subsidiaries in South Eastern Europe.
Until 2023, she was serving as an Independent Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors and as the Chair of the Audit Committee and of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee of E.Y.D.A.P. S.A.
She is a graduate of the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she has completed the program Modern Governance in Banking at INSEAD, while she has participated in multiple financial seminars and managerial training programs.