askmarkets UnLtd was founded in 2007 by George Tziralis and Efthimios Mpothos. The company is located in Athens, Greece.

George Tziralis

A fertile 5-year course on mechanical and industrial engineering from NTUA concluded with a thesis on attempting to forecast stock prices; as algorithms and the challenge of making accurate predictions captured his heart, the decision to undertake PhD research on the field of forecasting was a logical choice. His early "affair" in data mining and artificial intelligence ended abruptly when he got to know the concept of prediction markets better. That was back in September 2005. Since then, prediction markets had to endure his workaholic attitude, providing a suitable outlet for his creativity and passion (argentine tango and other fitness activities still have to wait). Resulting from this, the creation of askmarkets was predestined to happen: a natural outcome of his research findings, as long as his upbeat attitude.

Efthimios Mpothos

Efthimios holds a 5-year bachelor in electrical and computer engineering from NTUA and wrote his thesis on mobile and personal communications. The move to engineering at Siemens, which took place immediately after graduation, finally proved not to be compatible with his creativity, passion and open mind for ideas. A refreshing switch back to research was highly needed and happened a couple of years ago. Since then, first an MSc on engineering-economic systems and then a PhD on innovation and ideas evaluation systems using prediction markets have kept him busy at days, while at nights his ideas, entrepreneurial attitude and developing skills find an outlet at askmarkets - with the result... of him only sleeping during the day.