Board of Directors & Scientific Committee

Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, member of the Ornithological Society since 1985, member of the editorial board of the journal New Ecology, founding member of the Hellenic Centre for Wildlife Care, founding member of ANIMA, with 30 years of experience in the hospitalization and rehabilitation of wild animals.

Fokion Potamianos is a partner at Sylvina Capital, a family office based in San Francisco. Previously he was a Partner at Francisco Partners, a Private Equity Fund specializing in technology investments, and he worked at UBS as Head of Semiconductor Banking and as an institutional investor and a Wall Street Journal award-winning analyst at Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette. Mr. Potamianos also serves on many other boards, including those of the Hellenic Society, the Knightsbridge International School, the American School of Classical Studies/Gennadius Library, the American Institute of Archaeology and the New York-based Sonnabend Collection Foundation.

Until recently, Mr. Potamianos was Chair of the Advisory Board of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography Marine Archaeology program. Mr. Potamianos’ interest in environmental, educational and research projects drives him to contribute to projects such as the construction of ANIMA’s predator rehabilitation center at the Athens Botanical Garden, the Sonnabend retrospective collection at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Venice, the Bronze Age marine excavation at Tel Dor harbour by the University of Haifa, the analysis of marine sediments and cores in the Gulf of Corinth by the University of Patras, and the Greek Paths of Culture project on the islands of Patmos, Sikinos, and Sifnos.

Degree : Forestry and Natural Environment
School of Geotechnical Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Master’s degree : Biodiversity Management (Master en conservacion de Biodiversidad)
Facultat de Biologia, Univesitat de Barcelona

Veterinary nurse. Graduate of Bell Mead training school in Old Windsor, England. She has worked at the veterinary clinic and later at the offices of the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Animals from 1981 to 1992 and as an employee and volunteer at ANIMA since 2011.

Veterinarian’s degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specialized in exotic animals, collaborator and responsible veterinarian of ANIMA since 2004, member of the scientific committee of ANIMA. He has performed hundreds of surgical procedures on wild animals, mainly birds, and is one of the most experienced veterinarians in the care and treatment of wild animals in Greece.

Lawyer. She studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany and did her postgraduate studies in Graz, Austria. She is a member of the Athens Bar Association and the Dusseldorf Bar Association in Germany. She has worked as a legal advisor at the International Development Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission Office in Turkey and has participated in development assistance projects abroad. In 2006 she founded the Hellenic Society for the Law of Antiquities. Founding member of ANIMA.

Forester