After serving as President of AIESEC International in 2003-2004. he joined DHL as the Management Assistant of the CEO of DHL in Asia Pacific. He continued his career in DP DHL until 2009. In this time he worked as the Regional Program during 4 years in Singapore and then as Regional Costumer Manager in Hong Kong, where he was responsible for commercial customer relations with some of DP DHL’s main clients in AP such as Dell, Adidas and Nike. In 2009 Pedro decided to return to his home country, Portugal, where he started his own business, a beauty spa chain. After getting that project off the ground Pedro decided to devote himself to what really inspires him, which is working in the area of people development. Currently Pedro is one of the Directors at Sintese Azul, a renowned training and consultancy firm in Portugal.
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Pedro Santos Sientese Azul Director Portugal
“One of my favourite quotes is “Success is a journey, not a destination”. For me success is to achieve the goals that were set but also to do it in the right way. It is to be happy with the now; it’s not only about looking to the future or to the past” Pedro remembers, “I try to live my life with a purpose and have a positive influence in everything I do. I have moved from a very successful corporate life to a small organization which has a focus on working with people because I feel that’s where I can have a stronger contribution. My vision in life is to help individuals to discover and develop their dreams. This is what moves me in life.”
Pedro’s motto is:
it happen.”
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Only A+ people make A+ organizations Theofilos has been a role model for a generation of AIESECers in Greece, as he has managed to overcome a climate of resistance to entrepreneurial innovation in Greece, by building his own group of successful companies. Currently Theofilos is the CEO of Group IMI, his exhibition business. He is also the VP of Strategy for CareerBuilder in Europe, Middle East and Asia, which creates new business in India, South East Asia and the Middle East. Theofilos is a true inspiration for many people, as he is also a founding member of Melampous, an NGO fighting skin cancer. He is also participating in the Millennium Promise initiative in Malawi, Africa. Theofilos is a proud Harvard Alumni, graduating from the OPM at Harvard Business School in Boston in 2010.
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Theofilos always refers to AIESEC as the single most powerful and life-changing experience in his life. “AIESEC unlocked my potential, creating a leader out of me and guiding me to see the world as my oyster! If I hadn’t set foot in the AIESEC office in October 1994, my life wouldn’t be as it is now...” In his words: “Defining success by itself is narrowing its real meaning. Paraphrasing Aristotle, success is not an achievement, it is a habit. If I could locate the characteristics of successful individuals, I would say that it is if their dreams are more important to them than their achievements. Success isn’t the sum of what you conquered in the past, but a combination of what you live through today and what you dream for yourself and the people around you in the future.”
Theofilos Vasileiadis Vice-President Strategy EMEA at Careerbuilder.com Founder- CEO of Group IMI Greece
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