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ENTREPRENEUR SPOTLIGHT NETWORK GREECE Endeavor Greece supports 10 entrepreneurs from 6 companies. Emilios Markou & Alexis Pantazis company Hellas Direct selected December 2012 industry Insurance employees at selection 23 ENDEAVOR MAIN OFFICE ATHENS (2012) revenue 2012 $200,000 revenue growth since selection 260% The Endeavor Greece team in their office in Athens. news Within its first six months of operations, Endeavor Greece welcomed over 100 people from 15 countries to Athens for an International Selection Panel, at which 18 candidates were selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs. 51 Endeavor Co-Founder & CEO Linda Rottenberg appeared on CNBC's SquawkBox to announce the launch of Endeavor Greece. Endeavor Greece has partnered with three Greek universities and Junior Achievement to bring entrepreneurship education to high school and university students. Entrepreneurs Emilios Markou and Alexis Pantazis are jump‐starting the car insurance industry in Greece. By cutting out sales commissions, their company Hellas Direct—the first direct‐to‐consumer online car insurance agency in the country— is able to offer safe driver policies that are 15‐35% cheaper than comparable coverage options. And in these trying times for the Greek economy, drivers are speeding towards savings: Just three months after launching, Hellas Direct had already given out 7,000 quotes. Former bankers who met while working for Goldman Sachs in London, Emilios and Alexis are now creating jobs in an economy that badly needs them—and they are setting powerful examples of entrepreneurial success that they hope will help reverse the damaging "brain drain" trend in their home country. Alexis and Hellas Direct were recently highlighted in a Financial Times article on the revival of the Greek economy.