Iraklis Gkritsis is a management consultant and entrepreneur. He is currently pursuing an MBA at Columbia Business School with a concentration in finance. Iraklis was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he worked extensively in banking, energy and public sector projects including helping a European government tackle the economic impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that he worked in the technology sector developing software for European institutions for a major enterprise software company and as a founder of two tech startups in the news aggregation and face animation spaces.
He studied philosophy at University College London and the University of Warwick in the UK. His master’s thesis focused on the contradictions of the concept of time leveraging the work of Immanuel Kant and John M. E. McTaggart. He has been active in political and debating forums since high school and he represented Greece in the European Youth Parliament.
Outside his professional and academic pursuits Iraklis is an avid mountaineer, having climbed over fifty mountains in 6 countries over the past decade and an aspiring author having recently completed his first philosophical novel, “The Birth of Man”.
