Catherine Karanikola has joined the YNV Group as Chief Legal Officer in Greece.
Prior to her move, Karanikola worked for Microsoft as a Softomotive Integration Legal Counsel between July 2020 and September 2021, having served as Softomotive's Group General Counsel & VP of Operations between 2019 and 2020. Before Softomotive, she was the General Legal Counsel, Compliance & Data Protection Officer of Velti, a company she first joined in 2009 as a Senior Legal Counsel.
Before moving in-house, she was a Senior Associate with SFSP Law between 2006 and 2019 and an Associate with Karatzas & Partners between 2002 and 2006.
"YNV is a group of companies with diverse business lines spanning from premium support services to Blue Chip tech giants to real estate commercial exploitation in sites all over the world," commented Karanikola. "I was primarily attracted by this diversity in business and the vision and mission of the group to offer world-class services from primarily immersing markets such as Costa Rica, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Vietnam, Greece. The group has an amazing high-growth culture that makes anyone feel like home from day one. I have been entrusted to run a global legal team of high caliber legal professionals and will be contributing towards creating a forward-looking legal department providing world-class legal services and participating actively in the digital transformation of the YNV group which is currently driving for itself and its customers."
