Chrysostomos Philippou
Tax & Corporate Consultant
Chrysostomos has graduated from the LSE in 1984 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) in London with Touche Ross & Co. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and of the Institute of Public Certified Accountants of Cyprus. He returned back to Cyprus and was the Chief Financial Officer of the Archbishopric of Cyprus for 20 years, in the meantime making it one of the most, if not the most, financially robust organisations in Cyprus. He has directed and overseen the financing, construction or purchase and lease of 8 hotels in Cyprus, restructured a loss-making plastic factory into a profitable one, was involved in the creation of a new innovative plastic factory from inception to a smoothly profitable unit, co-headed the television station Logos (then Mega Channel, and now TVOne) and supervised all of the businesses and subsidiaries and real estate dealings of Archbishopric of Cyprus. He also served on the Board of Directors of many private and public companies.
In 2013 Chrysostomos joined the firm and helped expand the firm’s offering to tax structuring. He is responsible for the administration of companies including those that have a substantive presence in Cyprus.