Mandate of PPC CEO set to be extended
Greece is poised to renew the term of the chief executive of its biggest power utility Public Power Corp (PPC) for another three years after no other candidates came forward.
Manolis Panagiotakis has been CEO of PPC since 2015 and his term, which ended in April, has been extended until a shareholders meeting due to take place on Thursday.
PPC said on Monday that Panagiotakis was the sole nomination for the post.
The country’s state assets fund, Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations, is in charge of nominating PPC’s CEO as the state holds a 51 percent stake in the utility.
Panagiotakis, a mechanical engineer, has held several senior posts at PPC in the last 20 years and had a key role in concluding the spin-off of the country’s power grid last year, a condition of Greece’s latest international bailout.
PPC has also launched a series of payment schemes in a bid to collect bills of more than 2.5 billion euros left unpaid by Greeks hit by years of austerity and a protracted recession.
[Reuters]
