Andreas Antonopoulos is the Rector of the University of New York in Prague  and a Partner at Venture Growth Partners , an investment fund focusing on early stage ventures.

Andreas has over 30 years of an academic, entrepreneurial, investment and corporate background blend.

He was Co-Founder of Working Knowledge, a leading telecoms advisory firm in London which he exited in 2007, he has also co-founded Viva Credit, a fintech market leader in micro-lending in Romania which has also expanded to Spain and Czech Republic and to a 9 digit valuation. Andreas has been an Angel investor in more than a dozen other failed, alive or thriving ventures.

In the past, Andreas has held senior management appointments in the Telecoms Sector sector and has worked and/or lived, for short or longer periods, in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Philippines, Romania, Spain, the UK and the US. He speaks speaks 8 languages at various degrees of proficiency.

Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from University College London, UK and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.