Our next guest has a passion for exploring the barriers to AI implementation. As a startup founder, and an advisor, but also as an investor.

Dimitrios Skaltsas is the co-founder and Executive Director of Intelligencia. A company that helps pharma and biotech companies reduce risks in drug development and bring new drugs to market faster.

Dimitrios has an MBA from INSEAD and he has been an executive resident there. And he has also led the Big Data and AI department at McKinsey New Ventures.

Dimitris lives in New York, but you can meet him often in Athens. Intelligentsia’s headquarters is across the ocean, but Athens is the R&D powerhouse of the company.

In his conversation with Irina, Dimitris shares lessons learned from:

🥧 His first entrepreneurial venture, selling traditional Greek cheese pies in New York;

📏 Measuring success in a sophisticated industry like drug development;

🧠 Thinking both fast and slow to grow and accelerate a startup;