Mr. Christodoulos Protopapas has been Chief Executive Officer of HellasSat, the first satellite operator in Greece and Cyprus since 2001. He is also Chairman of The Board Of Directors of the Hellenic Space Agency and is a Member of the Board of Directors of ESOA, the EMEA Satellite Operators Association.

Christodoulos has been involved in the satellite business since August 1994, when the Government of Cyprus appointed him to the Cyprus Space Committee to represent Cyprus at International Meetings and Conferences. He has participated in many professional seminars, presentations and visits regarding Satellite Business, Communications and Informatics.

In 1985 he was appointed Head of the Computer Department of the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece. From February 1989 to November 1989 he was employed by Electricity Authority of Cyprus as Assistant Engineer. Between the years 1990 and 1996 he worked as Technical Advisor to the Archbishopric of Cyprus, where he was responsible for the Design, Building and Installation of the “O Logos” Radio and TV Station. In 1995 has established “Logos Net” which was the First Internet Service Provider in Cyprus. From August 1996 till August 1999 he was appointed Director General of “O Logos” Radio and TV Channel. From October 1999 to January 2000 he was employed as Technical Advisor to Alpha TV Group in Greece until he left to assume the role of MD of HellasSat Consortium.

Christodoulos was born in 1961 in Limassol Cyprus. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of the “National Technical University of Athens” with Honors (9.73/10). He is the author of a number of international academic publications in Intelligent Systems and he has participated in a number of Seminars and Lectures in Cyprus and abroad presenting new technologies in Communications and Information Systems. He is married to Dr. Panayiota Constantinou and has three children.