He first met Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou as the young entrepreneur who won his first prize. Years later, they built a business together. Georgios Karavokyris shares how one opportunity can change the direction of an entrepreneurial journey—and how persistence, technology and the creator economy shaped everything that followed.

Georgios Karavokyris is a Greek entrepreneur who has spent his career in creator marketing and creator-intelligence technology. He is Founder & CEO of easyInfluencer.travel, the hospitality creator marketplace built with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyJet (1995) and easyGroup, and of Renfluence, a full SaaS content-intelligence platform for influencer marketing that uses frame-by-frame AI video analysis to reveal real content performance beyond follower counts. Georgios was named in Fortune Greece’s 40 Under 40 for 2025 and selected as a U.S. Department of State YTILI Fellow for 2025, among the 50 most innovative young entrepreneurs in Europe. He first met Sir Stelios as the 1st prize winner of the Stelios Foundation’s awards for young entrepreneurs in Greece.