Yanni Paniaras

Yanni Paniaras

Executive Director Europe

TITAN CEMENT GROUP, Greece

Yanni Paniaras studied Civil Engineering at Imperial College (BSc, MSc) and Business Administration at INSEAD (MBA). He started his career at Knight Piésold, an international mining and engineering consultancy headquartered in London. Between 1998 and 2015, he held senior management positions in Greece and Germany in S&B Industrial Minerals Group and – in 2015 – in its new parent company, Imerys. He concluded his term there as Vice President of the former S&B Division and Managing Director of S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. In January 2016, Yanni Paniaras joined the management of TITAN Group, where he has led, since 2020, its European business as well as Group Sustainability. From 2016 to 2021 he served as Chairman of the Business Council for Sustainable Development of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). Since 2022, Yanni is serving on the Board of Quest Holdings S.A. as an independent non-executive Director and Chair of its Board sustainability committee.