From 1984 to 1986 Apostolos Tamvakakis worked at Mobil Oil Hellas. Between 1986 and 1989 he worked at Hellenic Investment Bank as, successively, accounts officer, officer in charge of stock market issuance/underwriting, officer in charge of M&As, finally becoming Manager of Corporate Finance. In 1990, he was appointed Manager of Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance and Trading at ABN AMRO Bank and, from 1993 onwards, as the Bank’s Deputy General Manager, Greece.
From 1996 to 1998 he served as Deputy Governor of National Mortgage Bank and from 1998 to 2004 as Vice Chairman of NBG. In 2004, he became Executive Chairman and CEO of Lamda Development. From March through December 2009 he served on the management team of the Geneva-based Latsis Group, where he was Head of Strategy and Business Development. Mr. Tamvakakis has served as Vice-President of HELEX (Hellenic Exchanges SA), Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, Chairman of Ethnocard (National Management & Organization Co), National Securities SA and ETEVA (National Investment Bank for Industrial Development), President of the Southeastern European Board of the Europay Mastercard group, and as a member of various other boards and committees.
Mr Tamvakakis is a graduate of the Economics University of Athens (1979) and holds an MA in Economics from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1981).