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<\/p>\nAt the Athens Riviera Luxury Awards, most guests will speak about architecture, yachting, investments, and hospitality. On the microphone, however, will be someone who comes from none of these fields. Maria Themeli is a journalist by training, a communications executive during the banking crisis, and today a Strategic Advisor to CEOs with her own company, Themeli Communications. She is also a Business Consultancy Advisor for the Municipality of Palaio Faliro, where she lives and works daily.<\/p>\n
“Behind every professional step I take, there is always a deep love for people and a need to genuinely connect with business stories. I never saw my path as just a simple career. My tenure at Marfin Egnatia Bank and the MIG group was the ultimate baptism by fire. There, through major events, mergers, and frontline crisis management, I learned in practice what it means to protect corporate reputation when the pressure is at critical levels. When I decided to take the next step and found Themeli Communications, I did so with a very specific manifesto: to prove that strategic communication is not an impersonal privilege reserved for large corporations, but the living fuel that small and medium-sized enterprises need to grow. Today, as a Business Consultancy Advisor and Strategic Advisor to CEOs, I operate as a Market Maker, helping leaders unlock their outward orientation and turn their brand into measurable business value.”<\/p>\n
Before all of this, there was journalism, studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business, a communications position at the B&M Theocharakis Foundation, and a detail few people know: Themeli was the person who first brought the global professional networking organization BNI to Greece, changing a business relationship culture that until then relied on informal acquaintances and favors, rather than on an organized methodology.<\/p>\n
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“Palaio Faliro is my home and the headquarters of my business. I experience the market of the Southern Suburbs of Athens every day. From my position as Business Consultancy Advisor alongside Mayor Giannis Fostiropoulos, I view the Riviera as the most dynamic economic ecosystem in the country right now. However, architectural models and foreign investments worth millions are only half the picture. Our main priority and strategic direction is to build the necessary bridges so that this massive development does not bypass small and medium-sized businesses, but instead returns as value to society and to the daily life of citizens. The Riviera will succeed only if its growth is inclusive and benefits the local market as a whole.”<\/p>\n