
Glafkos Persianis
Glafkos Persianis joined Inchcape in March 2020 as CEO Europe. Following a regional restructure, Glafkos became CEO Europe and Africa in October 2022. Prior to Inchcape, Glafkos worked in Telecommunications. He was most recently at Vodafone UK, where he was the CEO of Vodafone UK Consumer Business Unit (Euro 4 billion turnover business) and the Head of all Vodafone UK Commercial operations (digital, brand, telesales, call centres). Before the UK position at Vodafone, Glafkos was the CEO of Vodafone in Greece (Euro 900 million turnover telco operator in mobile, broadband, fixed telephony and TV). Prior to Vodafone, Glafkos worked in various positions across Europe for Pepsico. His last position at Pepsico was General Manager for Pepsico Central Europe region (Poland, Baltics, Czech, Hungary and Slovakia), covering both the Food and Beverage business.
Glafkos is an Executive with extensive CEO and Commercial experience, across multiple geographies in Europe, in Telecommunications, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Food and Automotive. He has a track record of delivering step change growth and business turnarounds, driven by defining successful business and commercial strategies, creating winning teams, driving brand repositioning and re-defining and implementing new operating models. During his career at Vodafone and Pepsico he has successfully initiated and integrated two scale business acquisitions. He is based in the UK.