Optasia
Antoine Chatzistamatiou has a strong background in technology and innovation. Antoine is currently serving as the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Optasia since January 2022. Prior to that, they held the role of CTO at Optasia from December 2015 to January 2022.
Earlier in their career, Antoine founded and served as the CEO of MobileMedia, a mobile marketing company, from December 2005 to December 2015. During this time, MobileMedia successfully managed and crafted back-end solutions for major mobile marketing campaigns worldwide, delivering over 3 billion dialogues for over 350 mobile campaigns.
Antoine also has experience as a Member of the Board of Directors at Hellenic Association of Mobile Applications Companies (HAMAC) from January 2011 to May 2013. Before that, they co-founded and served as a Director at Think Informatics ltd. from July 2004 to November 2005.
Additionally, Antoine worked as a Mobile Services Independent Consultant at Forthnet from February 2003 to June 2004.
Antoine's career began as a Post Graduate Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, from 1996 to 1999.
Antoine Chatzistamatiou completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Panepistimio Kritis from the years 1992 to 1996. Antoine then went on to pursue a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from the same institution from 1996 to 1998.
Optasia
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We deliver Optasia, the AI Platform enabling financial access for the next billion customers. Α versatile, data-driven B2B2X (business-to-business-to-customers and SMEs) financial technology platform for MNOs, mobile wallet operators and financial institutions, which provides them with accurate credit scoring for responsible financing decision-making. We support intelligent credit decisions, enable a broad range of financial services development and drive successful business models. All with ease, through our AI-led fully-automated decisioning algorithm, which allows us to efficiently make millions of decisions on financing, based on sophisticated data analysis. Thanks to our technology and network we provide powerful flywheel effects with repeatable and scalable growth levers, to help our partners grow and enable financial access to retail & SME customers across numerous markets. Operating since 2012 as Channel VAS and expanded in more than 30 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and LATAM with focus in emerging markets, Optasia Enabling credit decisions for an average of 88 million customers a month and had more than 560 million addressible subscribers in 2021, continuing to expand to new markets globally. Optasia has been chosen as an investment opportunity by top firms such as Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital in 2017, and Ethos, a leading South African investment company in late 2018. The company also obtained ISO 27001 Certification in late 2021. Founded as Channel VAS in 2012, we became Optasia in 2022, incorporating a brand identity that more broadly reflects our capabilities.