Former Executive Vice President Delhaize Group & CEO of Southeastern Europe and Asia
Konstantinos Macheras studied Business Administration at the University of Piraeus and holds an MBA from the Roosevelt University of Chicago, USA. He started his professional career in the Retail sector in the U.S. as a Purchasing Manager in the Quality Super Market company in Chicago.
Between 1997 and 2016 Mr. Macheras was Executive Vice President of Delhaize Group and CEO of Southeast Europe (AB Vassilopoulos). Prior to this he held executive positions for over 14 years in the Mars Inc. Group in Europe and in Greece, including being the General Manager in Greece and Italy. He has also served as General Manager of Chipita International. He was a member of the Board of Directors at EASE (Association of Greek Executive Officers), of SEET (Association of Greek Food Enterprises), and is a member of the Future Leaders Development Program in Greece.
In 2005 Konstantinos Macheras was named Officer in the order of King Leopold II by the King of Belgium Albert II. And in 2009 he was nominated “Manager of the Year 2008” by the Hellenic Management Association. In 2009 he was nominated as “Retailer of the Year” and in 2010 as the First CEO on CSR issues. In 2010 he was also awarded as the “Retailer of the Decade”.
Between 2016 and 2022 he was president of IELKA, the Hellenic Research Institute of Retail Consumer Goods, and since 2019 he is President of Lion & Turtle, a real estate and retail specialist firm.
