Ioannis Komninos is an Electronic Engineer, with studies from the University of Leeds - UK. He has also a M. Sc. degree from the same University in Radio Communications and High Frequency Engineering. From 1999 to 2006 he had worked as a RF Design and Development Engineer in the R&D wireless group of Intracom S.A. in Greece, designing hardware for wireless access telecommunications systems. In early 2006 he joined Theta Microelectronics SA as RF Lab Manager.

In parallel with his employment he has been working as a researcher for Urenio Research Unit of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece since 2000. He has also worked with Innovatia S.A. and Research Institute of Urban Environment and Human Resources of Panteion University (IAPAD) as an external consultant.

His main research interests at the Urenio Research Unit are the development of methodologies and tools for New Product Development (NPD) and the management of most of the aspects of creating new products. He has written papers, on Product Outsourcing, Product Life Cycle Management and NPD. He was also responsible in the research and in the design of the NPD Roadmaps for Invent and “NPD-Net” EU funded projects.

Publications/ Books/ Papers
He has many articles on his credit.

Articles Contributed

	Product life cycle management
	All products and services have certain life cycles. The life cycle refers to the period from the product's first launch into the market until its final withdrawal and it is split up in phases. During this period significant changes are made in the way that the product is behaving into the market i.e. its reflection in respect of sales to the company that introduced it into the market