Ioanna Elena Markou is General Manager and Vice-President of the Board for Cityscape S.A., an investment and property services company she founded in 1999 which today ranks amongst one of the most influential and dynamic firms in the real estate industry with a considerable client base.

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Ioanna Elena Markou is General Manager and Vice-President of the Board for Cityscape S.A., an investment and property services company she founded in 1999 which today ranks amongst one of the most influential and dynamic firms in the real estate industry with a considerable client base.

Ioanna Elena’s real estate expertise includes up-market corporate and commercial leases and sales in Athens and Thessaloniki. Major achievements include tenant-mix development and 100% pre-lets for Greece’s then first shopping malls in addition to the successful management of property portfolios on behalf of institutional and private clients.

In 2001, Ioanna Elena co-founded LAMDA Hellix S.A., Greece’s only neutral mission critical facilities and only operating example of “Wired Real Estate” in Greece and currently serves as the company’s Vice President.

Prior to CITYSCAPE, Ioanna Elena worked at a local boutique firm and spearheaded high-profile real estate transactions and nationwide retail expansion projects for multinational clients in addition to tenant-mix advisory.

Although born in the United States, Ioanna Elena has lived and worked in Europe for most of her life. She has earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and English Literature from Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland with subsequent professional experience at The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Lugano, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Vorres Museum and The Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.

In 1991, Ioanna Elena co-founded Zephyr Publications S.A. and co-published Odyssey magazine, an upscale, English-language bi-monthly magazine that is the leading international magazine about Greece and Greeks around the world. From 1991 until 2000, she served on the board as Vice President and subsequently sold her participation to a leading publishing house, remaining as an honorary founder on the masthead. Presently, nearly 30 years after its inception, Odyssey still claims a 35,000-strong global subscriber base. Since early 1996 until late 1997, she simultaneously held an International Clients Magazine Production Director position at General Press Publications S.A.

CONTACT

For further information, contact Ioanna Elena Markou on:
Tel: +30 210 6801143 – 44
Fax: +30 210 68 35 175
iemarkou@cityscape.gr