Konstantinos Ioannou studied Business Administration at the Manchester School of Management UMIST in the UK and earned an MBA in Hotel Management from Cornell University as a Fulbright scholar. He has been a founder, consultant, and Board Member of IMH since 1997, and was CEO and Board Member of Real Time Hospitality Intelligence, USA (1996–2001). In 2006, he founded C.C. Coffee Company Ltd, which holds the Cyprus rights for Gloria Jean’s Coffees, and served on the Retail Food Group Advisory Group for Europe. He was Minister of Health (2018–2021), appointed by President Nicos Anastasiades, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Nicosia in 2022 for his role in implementing the GHS.