Board Member

George Appios started his career in London in 1988 at an accounting and auditing firm and then in 1992 in the Finance Department of a civil engineering multi-national company specialized in studies and designs of big construction projects, also in London. In 1995, he joined the Hellenic Bank in Cyprus as Head of the Organization and Methods Department. In 2000, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Group and later Senior Manager and Member of the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Bank Group. In January 2008, he took over the duties of General Manager at Piraeus Bank (Cyprus) Ltd, where he led the International Banking Unit, Payments, Credit, Finance, Treasury Back Office, Organization and Methods, and Technical Services. He was appointed as CEO of the Pireus Bank (Cyprus) and of its successor, Astrobank in February 2013. With the appointment of a new Managing Director at Astrobank in 2019, he continued as Executive Director in the position of Deputy Managing Director until December 2020. He is president of the Cyprus Institute of Financial Services and until recently he served as member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Cyprus Banks, Artemis Credit Scoring Systems as well as of the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB). He holds a BSc and MSc in Structural Engineering from City University of London. He is a Chartered Accountant, member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.