Miltiadis Athanassiou
Partner, Zurich
Head of our EMEA Retail practice and senior client advisor focused on full potential transformations across the retail and consumer products industries.
About Miltiadis
Expertise
Highlights
- Head of our EMEA Retail practice
- End-to-end full potential transformation expert
- Customer-led category management and advanced retail buying specialist
- 20+ years of firm experience
Miltiadis Athanassiou is the head of our EMEA Retail practice and a leader in our Consumer Products and Performance Improvement practices, based in Zurich.
He holds deep expertise in multiple areas, including full potential transformation, business unit strategy, category management, operating model redesign and end-to-end supply chain management.
Milti has honed intensive cross-sector retail knowledge throughout more than two decades with Bain, most recently advising food service, tobacco, mass retail, and food, drug, and convenience store clients.
He has also led a diverse set of commercial due diligences in retail and consumer products areas for private equity clients.
Miltiadis holds an MBA from Columbia Business School (USA), where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He also holds an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich).
Bain Partner Miltiadis Athanassiou discusses how to turn a supply chain into a competitive advantage through three different paths.
Recent Insights
- “The Future of European Grocery Retailing: Strategy after the Lockdown Surge,” Brief, February 2021
- “Smart Shopper Marketing: The digital key to more customer proximity,” Brief, December 2018
- “Miltiadis Athanassiou: Is Your Supply Chain a True Business Partner?,” Video, June 2016
- “The Intangible Benefits of a Digital Supply Chain,” Brief, April 2016
- “Is Your Supply Chain a True Business Partner?,” Supply Chain 24/7, December 2015, Article