Anastasios N. Kyriakides is President and CEO of NET TALK.COM, INC. (
www.netTALK.com). Mr. Kyriakides received a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Florida International University in 1975; in 1977, he received a degree in investment banking from the American Institute of Banking. From 1979 to the present, Mr. Kyriakides has consulted for numerous companies in the areas of shipping, travel, banking, and electronics. His cruise ship career started with Carnival Cruise line out of the Port of Miami, and continued to a successful start up with Tropicana Cruises; one of the first gaming ships out of the Port of Miami. In 1994, Mr. Kyriakides became the Chairman of Montgomery Ward Travel, a company created to provide full travel services to eight million Montgomery Ward customers and credit card holders; he served in this capacity from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Kyriakides had previously organized the successful start-up of Seawind Cruise Line in 1990; there, he was the founder, and later, the Chairman, CEO, and Secretary until 1994. In 1984 Mr. Kyriakides founded Regency Cruise Line, the world’s first publicly traded company in passenger shipping, and served as its Chairman and Secretary until 1987. In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides founded the Mylex Corporation to develop and produce the world’s first hand-held optical scanner and VGA card for personal computers. As the President and Chairman, Mr. Kyriakides guided Mylex from its beginning as a private company to its becoming a public company traded on the NASDAQ under the stock symbol MYLX until it was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM (NYSE: IBM). In 1983, Mr. Kyriakides was the founder and Chairman of Tower Bank NA, a full service commercial bank, with three offices, headquartered in Dade County, Florida.
In 1980, Mr. Kyriakides, was the founder of Delcor Idustries of Hollywood, Florida, an electronics manufacturing facility, assembling OEM products for various electronics companies including IBM mainframe and gable division employing over 150 skilled employees. In 1979, he was the founder and Chairman of Lexicon Corporation, the worlds first hand held electronic language translator the LK3000 that translated into 12 different languages. This company, publicly traded on the NASDAQ, under the symbol LEXI, was ultimately acquired by Nixdorf Computers of Germany.
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