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Shipping CEO Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou builds international business from Cyprus
March 9, 2021
“Businesses in Cyprus support each other. It’s a real community,” comments Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO at Tototheo Maritime & President at WISTA International in an interview with the Cyprus Mail.
Thanks to her long experience in shipping, , brings a great deal to the table in her work at WISTA, at the Commonwealth Business Forum, and at her own company.
“I come from a Cypriot family and I grew up in an environment that was in shipping because my father, my godfather, my family was in the shipping industry. Now the shipping industry works 24/7, and, initially, I wanted to have a more balanced life. So I went and studied economics for my first degree and then thought I would go into banking. This, however, I just hated and gave up after three months. I just walked out the door and said this is not for me,” Theodosiou recalls.