{"id":47322,"date":"2025-08-11T16:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oeb.org.cy\/open-executive-boardroom-podcast-3-7-2025-episode-8\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:33:51","slug":"open-executive-boardroom-podcast-3-7-2025-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeb.org.cy\/en\/open-executive-boardroom-podcast-3-7-2025-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Open Executive Boardroom&#8221; Podcast (3\/7\/2025), Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Podcast \u201cOpen Executive Boardroom\u201d (3\/7\/2025),<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Episode 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Open Executive Boardroom is home to a personality who has left and continues to leave her own imprint on the business world. Dimitris Aletraris describes himself as a restless spirit and opens his cards to Nestor Vassiliou. He describes his exciting career, which begins in his childhood in the Belgian Congo, where he spoke Swahili and French, and reaches the important positions he held in large companies and the responsibility of managing investments of \u20ac10 billion.  <\/p>\n<p>The CEO of EMMA Capital explains how he had created the largest fund in Cyprus and how the Czechs came into his life, who were to determine his professional career. The establishment of EMMA Capital Ltd brings its first major investment of \u20ac1 billion. with the acquisition of 34% of OPAP Greece. 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