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Here are the nine recipients of the CBN Young Dragon Awards

The first ever CBN Young Dragon Awards, recognising and awarding professionals under the age of 40 for their accomplishments in a range of sectors, have wrapped with great success at the Municipal Theatre in Nicosia.

The invitation-only ceremony saw nine professionals under the age of 40 recognised and awarded for their accomplishments in a range of sectors.

The recipients of the 1st CBN Young Dragon Awards are:

Tourism, Hotel, Leisure, Food and Beverage

  • Nikolaos Arvanitis | Manager, Events & Entertainment | Melco Resorts & Entertainment
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Construction and Real Estate

  • Elena Narbuts | VP of Sales & Marketing | Marfields Group
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Trading and Manufacturing (retail trade, wholesale trade, manufacturing)

  • Michalis Petrou | Commercial Manager | Alambra - Petrou Bros Dairy Products
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Technology (technology companies, software, hardware, telcos, etc.)

  • Theodoros Mantis | Head of Payroll & Migration | BrainRocket
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Services (Education, Health, Media, Communications, Advertising, Supply Chain and Logistics)

  • Artemis Pnevmatikou | Head of PR & Communications | TechIsland
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Financial Services (Banking, Investing, Insurance, other financial services)

  • Christos M. Ioannou | Head Private & Affluent Banking | Bank of Cyprus
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Shipping

  • Vassilis Malikides | Chief Investment Officer | OSM Thome
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Professional Services (law, accounting, consulting)

  • Constantina Ioannou | Manager | PwC
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Young Entrepreneur

  • Nearchos Petrides | CEO | Ellinas Finance
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Three finalists in each award category were selected and announced by the expert Awards Committee while a public vote shaped the final result, contributing to and decisively determining the selection of each category's awardee. This is because the public's vote counted on a 50%-50% scale with the Award Committee's vote.

The CBN Young Dragon Awards are presented by Cyta Business, the Gold Sponsor of the Awards is Punin Group, the Young Dragon Champion Sponsor is Ecommbx and Nespresso is the Awards Sponsor.

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