Panayiotis is a Board Member and Head of Banking at KPMG in Cyprus as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the firm. He is also the Chairman of the KPMG Cyprus Audit Committee Institute.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Accounting & Economics from Lancaster University and is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, as well as a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus. He has been the Chairman of the Listed Entities and PIE Auditors Committee of ICPAC for the past three years. Panayiotis joined KPMG in 1993 and became a Partner in 2005.

He is a technical expert on IFRS requirements with more than 30 years of experience. As the leader of KPMG’s Department of Professional Practice-Accounting team, he provides technical support and specialist advice on applying the IFRS framework to both in-house staff and external stakeholders. He is also the co-head of the Accounting Advisory Services which specialises in IFRS, IPSAS and other frameworks’ interpretation and implementation for external clients, with a focus on grey areas and complex transactions.

His extensive audit portfolio includes multinational clients in industries such as banking, investment firms, insurance, tourism, real estate, and media.

Panayiotis is certified by the Human Resource Development Authority as a “Trainer of Vocational Training”.