Mihalis Boutaris

Mihalis Boutaris serves as an independent Director of the Company, as a member of our Audit Committee, and as a member of our Compensation Committee as of the 2022 annual meeting of shareholders. As a 5th-generation winemaker, he is the vice-president of Kir-Yianni and the secretary of the Yiannis Boutaris Foundation. He has worked for wineries in California, Chile, France, and Greece. In 2006 Mihalis joined BCG as an associate and grew his track record by managing clean-tech joint ventures including eco-friendly biopesticides, hydroelectric energy, and a pilot project of Motor Oil Hellas in concentrated solar power. In 2011 he moved to Shanghai to establish XiGu, a pioneering fine wine estate in Northwest China, while growing Greek exports in Asia Pacific. In 2019 he became an advisor to the Innovation Office of NCSR “Demokritos” in Athens. A year later he also founded Athroa, a venture studio backed by private investors & BigPi, one of the leading deep-tech VCs in Greece, that commercialized several patents by inventors in Greece and beyond. He graduated from Harvard with a BA in philosophy and from UCDavis with a MSc in horticulture. He has served in the Greek Marine Corps and co-founded Arcturos, a wildlife NGO.