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PAA MENTOR PROGRAM

Welcome to our PAA Mentor Page where you can connect with individuals who have volunteered their time and their knowledge to help PYA members as they decide which road to travel.  Continuing PAA values through mentoring The PAA Mentor Program is designed to support PYA and PAA members through connections with effective corporate executives, business owners and professionals for a rigorous mentorship experience to help them further their knowledge, experience, and understanding of career related skills and resources in order to become more successful. The main goal of the program is to connect Mentors with Mentees through a mentorship experience in order to support Mentees with performance or career exploration. Mentors are recruited professionals and include corporate executives, small business owners & professionals from a variety of occupations. Mentees will be high school or college students or aspiring professionals that are current and paid PYA/PAA members. In addition, we offer monthly PAA Online Mentor Talks and we hope you will visit this page often to hear about upcoming programs.  


Our previous mentor guests are listed below as well as our mentors. Information about our online programs are always emailed out to our membership database (this is a member benefit) and through our bi-monthly newsletter. Please make sure to have your email in our database system and follow us on all of social media sites (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn).  

If you would like more information on the mentor program, contact us nkastrinakis@pancretan.org and we will connect you with the appropriate person.  

Mentors 2023-2025

Business  & Management


Andreas Batakis

  • Mindset
  • Leadership
  • Business Growth
  • Management

Kostas Katsohirakis

  • Financial Analysis
  • Negotiations
  • Career Development
  • International Expertise
  • Presentation Skills

Demetri Koston

  • Commercial Real
  • Estate Finance
  • Financial Analysis
  • Business Development


Erasmia Novotny 
  • Entrepreneurial Skills
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Jewelry Sales
  • Teambuilding
  • Leadership



Helen Ranney

  • Marketing
  • Team Building
  • Communications
  • Incentive & Recognition Programs
 

Engineering & Technology



Peter Marangoudakis
  • Engineering & Quality
  • Leadership
  • Team Building
  • Project Management
  • Presentations
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Nikos Kastrinakis
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Corporate Change Management
  • Inclusion
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership
  • Engineering Management
  • Software Development
  • Agile
  • AI & Cloud Computing


Tom Jouvanis
  • Engineering & Quality
  • Leadership
  • Team Building
  • Project Management
  • Presentations



George Thanopoulos
  • Mechanical Engineering 
  • Management
  • Leadership 
  • Philanthropy

Nick Vlahakis
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Aerospace/Defense Contractor
  • Vlahakis Recording Studio/Carnegie Mellon
  • MBA University of Utah


Michali Bletsas
  • Computer Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Network Computing Systems
  • Research

Humanities & Social Sciences


Jane Voros
  • International Affairs
  • Nonprofit Management
  • Publishing/Editing/Writing
  • Communications/Public Affairs
  • French Language and Culture

Architecture & Design


Christ Kamages
  • Architecture
  • Project Management
  • Byzantine History & Design

Healthcare


Dr. Peter Kouretas
  • Professor of Surgery, UCSF
  • Surgical Director
  • Pediatric Heart Transplantation
  • Research 

Dr. Elias Taxakis

  • Medicine
  • Leadership
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Personal Finance


Physics & Science



Dr. Stella Kafka
  • Astronomy
  • Physics
  • Geophysical Science
  • Research
  • Management