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AWARDS
LOUCAS MARANGOS
CEO, TFI Markets(Silver Sponsor)CHRYSSES
DEMETRIADESPartner, Chrysses
Demetriades& Co. LLC.
THIERRY NOYERGeneral
Manager, CarrefourCyprus
Marinopoulos SA
JAFFAR AGHA-JAFFAR
Managing Director, Prime Licensing
and Group Executive, TSYS
VASSILIS PETRIDES
CEO, Laiko
Cosmos(Silver
Sponsor)
SUNIL KAPOORDirector & General
Manager, FML Ship
Management Ltd
BJØRN TORE LARSENFounder,
OSM Group
MAXIM SAFONOV
Head of Global Markets,
ManagingDirector,
Sberbank CIB
Photo by Jo MichaelidesThe award winners, sponsors and organisers
were photographed at the Presidential Palace.
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8 | GOLD | The Business Magazine of Cyprus
T H E B U S I N E S S M A G A Z I N E O F C Y P R U S
I S S U E 5 2 J U L Y 1 4 - A U G U S T 1 3 , 2 0 1 5
C O N T E N T S10 | EDITORIAL
14 | BUSINESS BRIEFINGEconomic & Business Highlights of the past month 18 | MY WAY
19 | FIVE MINUTES WITH… Nikolaos Georgikopoulos
22 | THEY SAID WHAT?A selection of memorable recent quotes
24 | Cyprus Banking System – The Aftermath
56 | No Class Act
28 | A Passion for Innovation
Microsoft Central and Eastern European region
32 | Standing Out from the Crowd
34 | Taxing Issues
36 | Ecological Disaster and Reputational Damage
54 | Taxation of Upstream Oil & Gas Activities
58 | Don’t Panic!
84 | 15 Years On
86 | Exciting Times Ahead
88 | Quorum Needed!
90 | Overlooked and Unloved
92 | Committed to Excellence
business
95 | BOOKSHELF
96 | IN GOOD COMPANY
100 | LUNCH WITH GOLD
103 | BUSINESS CLASS
104 | WHAT’S ON
106 | A DAY IN THE LIFE
COVER STORY38 | 4th CIPA International
Investment AwardsPhotos from the event, profiles of the winners,
comments from the sponsors
SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL
FEATURE61 | Banking
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Going beyond the data: Achieving actionable business
insights with data and analytics
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about how to gain the lost insight from it. In short, how to turn data
into insights, and insights into real business advantage. Data is
everywhere, telling us everything. But do companies really know
where to look? The reality is that turning mountains of data into
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10 | GOLD | The Business Magazine of Cyprus
| EDITORIAL |
John Vickers,Chief Editor
Fourth Time Around
hen Gold magazine was launched more than 4 years ago, we approached the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA), which is the official body entrusted with the task of attracting
foreign investment to Cyprus, and proposed the creation of an award that would recognize the contribution of foreign companies and investors to the economy. The idea was wel-comed by CIPA and since 2012, a total of 36 CIPA International Investment Awards have been presented to companies, organisations and individuals as a tribute and a “thank you” for helping Cyprus gain a reputation for excellence as an International Business Centre.
Every year we have hosted the annual CIPA International Investment Awards at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia and devoted our cover story to a presentation of the event and the award winners. This year is no exception, though, as regular readers may have re-alised, for the past two years this special issue has been published in September. This year we decided to hold the event two months earlier for the simple reason that, after worries about the weather in 2014 (the award ceremony and gala dinner are held outdoors in the Presidential Palace gardens), we thought it safer to organise the awards in July when the likelihood of rain was much smaller. It proved to be the right decision.
I am pleased and proud to note that the CIPA International Investment Awards have become established as the most prestigious in Cyprus, with the annual ceremony seen as a genuine celebration of the successful collaboration between Cyprus and those who have demonstrated their confidence in the island and its economy in a tangible manner. You can see and read about the event in our coverage starting on page 38.
Another major event in Cyprus during the past month was the inauguration of the Microsoft Innovation Center at European University Cyprus and we have an interview with Don Grantham, President of the Microsoft Central and Eastern European region, who visited the island to attend the ceremony (page 28). Other recent visitors to the is-land were Michael Izza, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), who spoke to us about tax issues (page 34), and Ian Cox, the author of the bestseller Disrupt IT, who gave the keynote presentation at last month’s MTN con-ference entitled Integration of Telecoms with IT: Enabling and Inspiring Growth and spoke to Gold about the themes of his address and his book (page 58).
Since many of you will be taking some summer leave, we have recommended more than just business books for some holiday reading (page 96) and recommended a variety of cultural events, ranging from ancient Greek drama to a DJ set by Snoop Dogg. I believe that you will find plenty of interest in this month’s issue and, as always, I look forward to your comments and feedback.
MANAGING DIRECTOR George Michail
GENERAL MANAGER Daphne Roditou Tang
MEDIA MANAGERElena Leontiou
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF John Vickers
JOURNALISTSEffy Pafitis, Artemis Constantinidou
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Tonia Antoniou, Olga Chervinskaya,
Glen Richards, Savvas Savouri.Special thanks to Bo Concept for the furni-
ture used in this month’s cover photo
ART DIRECTION Anna Theodosiou
SENIOR DESIGNERAlexia Petrou
PHOTOGRAPHY Jo Michaelides
MARKETING EXECUTIVE Kevi Chishios
SALES & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
Stavros EpifaniouADVERTISING EXECUTIVES
Irene Georgiou, Christopher ConstantinouOPERATIONS MANAGER
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hen Gold magazine was launched more than 4 ydW
SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
14 | GOLD | The Business Magazine of Cyprus
Microsoft Innovation Center Launch
CIM Becomes Full Member of ACUBritish High Commissioner Ric Todd hosted a cocktail reception at his residence earlier this month to mark the full membership of the Cyprus Institute of Market-ing (CIM) to the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). The event was attended by guests from Government and the Education and Business Sectors. The ACU is the world’s first and oldest international university network, promoting and supporting excellence. It has a distinguished reputation for managing prestigious and inter-nationally renowned scholarship schemes.
BUSINESSBRIEFING
IN THE NEWS
LARNACA HOSTS MASS CIVIL WEDDING CEREMONYA total of 66 couples from Israel were married in a mass civil ceremony in Larnaca, with the town’s mediaeval castle as a backdrop. The couples, mainly from Israel and Russia, had travelled with friends and relatives on a cruise ship from Haifa to Larnaca. The ceremony was conducted by Deputy Mayor Petros Christodoulou. It was the
has hosted mass civil weddings, in cooperation with the Larnaca Tourism Development and Promotion Company.
EDUCATION
MARIOS CLERIDES
STAVROS PANTZARIS
ANTIGONE KORFIOTI
JAMEEL AHMAD
CHANGES
WEDDINGS
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BIRTHDAY
Cytamobile-Vodafone Launches Russian Number Service
Cytamobile-Voda-fone has an-nounced the introduction of a
new service entitled Russian Number, which allows both pay monthly and Soeasy cus-tomers who receive frequent calls from Russia to obtain a Russian phone number in addition to their existing one. In this way, all phone calls to Russia will be charged local Russian call rates, as opposed to steep internation-al rates for Cyprus.
PostCy Introduces New VPN Packages
PostyCy Data Centre has re-leased a series of new packages
offering its premium Vir-tual Private Networking (VPN) solutions. “In a world where people travel more frequently for a vari-ety of reasons, the age-old concept of completing work from a home or office computer device is now invalid,” PostCy ex-plained. PostCy’s solution offers an uninterrupted VPN service, while the company is manned by a strong team of technicians dedicated to the resolution of any unexpected techni-cal errors, thus ensuring a smoother VPN experi-ence.
ANDREY & JULIA DASHIN’S FOUNDATION DONATION
APHILANTHROPY
LIMASSOL MARINA Celebrates First Year
L imassol Marina, the first – and only – luxury marina development on the island, marked its first year of op-erations on 19 June, exactly 12 months since President Nicos Anastasiades officially opened it. Since opening its gates to the public, it has
been attracting an average of 3,000 visitors daily. One year on, the waterfront development has also delivered its first villas with private berths or direct access to the beach, welcomed some of the world’s most distin-guished superyachts, established a thriving commu-nity at its spa and fitness club, all while extending its shop offering with world-renowned brands like Graff Diamonds, Halcyon Gallery, Vilebrequin and Shiraz.
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