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Georgios Serafimides

Insurance Broker

Managing Director
“Sigma Insurance Brokers SA” – Athens

Profile Summary

Born in Athens – Greece (1973). Entered the insurance profession in 1996 as an insurance agent following a family tradition since 1938 (3rd generation). Since 2005, works as a certified insurance broker, with specialty in corporate and health risk insurance, with registration record in two countries Greece and Bulgaria. Tasks: Risk management – Risk placement (selection of insurance companies in the local and international market) – Claim management.

Educational Background

1998 – Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) with Double Major Marketing & Finance from the American College of Greece – DEREE
1999 – Executive Insurance Certificate (HIIS – Hellenic Institute of Insurance Studies – Annual curriculum)
2005 – Financial Adviser Certificate (HIIS/CII)
2006 – Risk management & Risk survey seminars (HIIS)
2023 – Renewable energy risk & insurance – 18 hour – seminar (HIIS)
Languages: Greek native – English fluent

Experience

Working in almost all lines of insurance business since 1996, primarily with international health schemes and industrial/commercial risks, with a rich archive of preparatory and placement work files, indicative of more than 13,000 hours work, on more than 60 large and SME accounts. Over the last 20+ years, he has serviced a portfolio of corporate risks located in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Ukraine.
2004 – Engaged in direct cooperation with International Health Insurers like AXAPPP (first intermediary agreement in the Greek market) and BUPA.
2007 – Became Open Market Correspondent (OMC) having the authority to cooperate with Lloyd’s Brokers in the London insurance market.
2008 – Elected in the BoD of the Hellenic Insurance Brokers Association (HIBA) where he administrated a project for a standard property & business interruption policy wording, completed and presented publicly in 2010.
2008 – Registered as an insurance broker in Sofia-Bulgaria establishing “Sigma & Partners Ltd”.
2013 – Engaged in an effort to combine medical insurance with medical tourism cooperating with selected health providers, primarily in Bulgaria and Greece.
2020 – Engaged in the provision of risk management consulting services as a primary task towards corporate accounts.

Activities

Sports – Active from young age in basketball, volleyball and primarily water polo where he competed for 9 years in B/C division championship level till 2005.
Writing – He has produced several tutorial and informative articles on insurance matters, with some of them published in the Greek press.
Horology – Developing his own projects on assembling customized watches as a primary hobby, and establishing for this scope “Filenios” entity in 2013.