Chrysanthos Chrysanthou General Information

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An engineer by trade, completed BSc in Computer Science at UC San Diego, then moved to Silicon Valley and worked for Cisco for 4+ years in various tech and ops roles before moving to England for an MBA at Cambridge University. Following that, returned to Cisco for 5 more years where he focused on investments and acquisitions for Cisco's Software and Services division, based out of London, but lived in India for almost a year and completed transactions in the US.Following Cisco worked in a startup in Europe, specifically in Portugal, as COO and also started doing angel investing globally (Sweden, Portugal, Greece and US), as well as being a mentor at a few of the best accelerator programs, Seedcamp, TechStars London and StartupBootcamp.Last role was with Amazon and specifically in Amazon's Web Services division as the Startup Business Development lead for EMEA to manage relationships with VC firms, Accelerators/Incubators and the rest of the startup ecosystem in the region. Currently as Venture Capitalist at Accel Partners in London.Based out of London, travels extensively to Tel Aviv, Berlin, Scandinavia, Paris etc, all the major tech and startup hubs.