Our
Team
Adrianus (Arie) van Spreeuwel
Chief Executive Officer
Arie van Spreeuwel is co-founder and CEO of Phisana Digital Health Technologies. Born in the Netherlands, he started his career in the City of London with Sun Life Assurance followed by the broker firm Hoare Govett. Arie then moved to investment banking and worked for the Dutch bank F. Van Lanschot before moving to Frankfurt am Main, where he worked for Salomon Brothers AG.
Arie’s career in the iGaming industry started at the Mansion Group in 2010. He also worked for betting giants bet365 and bwin (Entain). In 2019 he launched his own casino and sportsbook, Bet4Pride.
With over a decade of experience in iGaming, Arie will drive the development of high quality business strategies and products for the iGaming industry. He will oversee all operations and business activities to ensure they produce the desired results and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission of the Company.
Konstantinos Tsiavdaridis
Co-Founder
Konstantinos Tsiavdaridis is co-founder of Phisana Digital Health Technologies.
Kontantinos completed his degrees at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and took a course on Mining Investment and Financial Modelling at Imperial College, London.
Before devoting himself to Phisana, he served as a COO in the Construction and Mining Industry for more than 10 years. The last years he worked on a Bio-Engineering project linked to Dystonia disease.
Thomas Bikias
Chief Technical Officer & Product Lead
Thomas Bikias is co-founder at Phisana Health Technologies and acts as a Chief Technical Officer & Product Lead. He obtained his MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki specialising in AI and Healthcare applications. With experience in the Tech and Pharma industry and in managing Health-Tech startups, Thomas is responsible for the development of Phisana’s main product and technology adoption inside the company.
In recent years, Thomas has worked for Accenture, as a Software Engineer. He is an ex-Microsoft fellow and an European Institute of Technology (EIT) Health alumnus.
Professor Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Chief Scientific Advisor
Prof. Hadjileontiadis is working on signal processing in the fields of biomedical engineering (bioacoustics, ECG data compression, high density EEG-based 3D vector field tomography) affective computing (EEG-based emotion recognition), educational data analytics (blended-, affective-, collaborative-learning modeling), non-destructive testing data analysis (crack detection in beams and plates), behavioral modeling (swarm-based decomposition/transform) at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Khalifa University. He is also a Professor in composition at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.
To date, Prof. Hadjileontiadis has supervised six PhD Students and three post-doctoral researchers, while his publication record includes over 85 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, over 140 papers in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings, six books, 24 book chapters, three patents, and edited two books. He has also acted as guest editor in special issues editions and served as chair/co-chair/keynote speaker in many international conferences. Prof. Hadjileontiadis is the recipient of many international awards, such as the Faculty Champion Award 2012 from Microsoft. In 2016, after a highly competitive process, Prof. Hadjileontiadis’ EUR 4 million grant proposal about Parkinson’s Disease early prognosis and intervention (namely i-PROGNOSIS) was accepted and signed by the European Commission-Horizon 2020 Research Framework.
Currently, Prof. Hadjileontiadis is the Coordinator/Scientific Responsible for three EU FP7/H2020 projects with a total budget of up to EUR 10 million. He also has strong collaborations with international research networks/centers (e.g., Karolinska Institutet, Fraunhofer Institute, Kings College London, Harvard/MIT, Winnipeg University). He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of the IEEE, of the Higher-Order Statistics Society, of the International Lung Sounds Association, of the American College of Chest Physicians, and of the Greek Composers’ Union (Vice-president). Prof. Hadjileontiadis is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Andrew Tait
Chief Legal Officer
Andrew has over 20 years experience working in-house in technology, media and gaming businesses with expertise in Intellectual Property, Commercial Contracts and Technology Licencing, Compliance and Regulatory Law. As a UK and Irish qualified solicitor (also currently seeking admission in Gibraltar) he has held senior legal posts in London, Dublin, Paris and Gibraltar – where he spent 10 years as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at the Mansion Group, an international online gambling operator.
He has for the past 4 years been a partner at Ince Group PLC – an international legal and business services provider, where he specialises and leads a team of professionals focusing on both UK Gambling Law and global gambling regulation, compliance and risk strategy. He is an active member of International Masters of Gaming Law, frequently speaking at conferences and publishing articles on all aspects of gambling law. In 2020 he was recognised as a leading gaming professional by the Legal500.
Anastasia Ntracha
R&D Lead
Anastasia is a PhD student and a graduate (Meng & BSc) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focus on digital diagnostic biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases using explainable artificial intelligence, while she contributes in various health-tech related research programs and projects. In parallel, she has co-founded, iCry2Talk, an internationally awarded startup, that uses AI to translate the baby’s cry. She is passionate about bioengineering, science communication, innovation for the SDGs and an active advocate for women’s empowerment and was thus selected by McKinsey within the “Next Generation Women Leaders” cohort.