If advertising and research need a little bit of “cooking”, then cooking definitely needs biology and marketing. This is how Chef stories …emerged.
Chef stories was founded as a boutique catering company. Thanks to specific catering needs, the first two Greek chutneys emerged. Soonafter, the company concentrates in the production and development of its handmade jams and chutneys from vegetables and fruits of the greek land and another handmade product, fresh lemonade, produced in the traditional way.
Chef stories has also developed the activity of Consulting in gastronomy. The knowledge and experience gained throughout the years, from the catering services on the one hand and the production process on the other, in conjunction with the scientific knowledge leads Chef stories to a new phase of services, those of organisation of gastronomic events and excursions, gastronomic Festivals and other.
Eleni Koumedaki, biologist, with a theoretical background and practical experience in laboratories, test tubes and microscopes, finally decides to get professionally involved with her big love, cooking.
Sylvia Koumedaki, an advertising and media executive, decides to use her knowledge and experience, to organize and promote, her sisters’ cooking art.
Managing Director & Events organizer
Sylvia – Ioanna Koumedaki
Sylvia Ioanna Koumentaki started her studies and career in advertising management and marketing. She has worked as an executive in advertising agencies, media shops, a wine production industry, an event organizing company, and in managerial positions in SMEs.
Together with her sister Eleni, founded Chef Stories in 2007, initially focusing on boutique catering services. Soon after, they expanded into a range of gourmet products. In 2011, they began consulting on marketing and development issues, as well as organizing events in the gastronomy sector.
Along the way, she pursued studies in Consulting (IEK DOMI), Project Management (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), and her beloved wine (Wine & Spirit Education Trust, Level 1, 2 & 3 HESTIA).
She is a member of the management team of the Marketing Club of Thessaloniki and responsible for the communication team.
Communication consultant
Lia Boudioukou
Lia Boudioukou studied German Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. An M.A. in Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester, UK followed thereafter.
In the rise of the private television in Greece, in 1989-90 she was one of the first executives of Antenna TV in Athens and later on in the Thessaloniki Branch as a Managing Director, where she remained for a decade. She has worked in several management positions in the media and advertising sector, in multinational enterprises and local media group of companies
In 2007 she created her own full service advertising agency, ombrella communication.
She has also worked as a columnist in magazines, she has taught advertising and media and she has lectured in several seminars and congresses of private and public institutions.
Since 2018 she works as an independent business and communication consultant and as an organizer of gastronomic events in co-operation with Chef stories. She also works as an independent copywriter and content creator.
Business Development & Marketing Consultant
Nana Zygoura
Nana Zigoura is a business development and marketing consultant.
With studies in Marketing, communication and culture she has undergone a long way as a management professional in Marketing and communication, client service and new business.
Today she is an independent professional working as a consultant and coach in companies and institutions, designing and executing plans of local, innovative and youth enterpreneurship.
Find more about Nana Zygoura in: www.zygoura.gr
Project manager
Τάνια Γεωργιάδου
Tania Georgiadou has studied Tourism Business Administration and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising from West Herts College in England. She has worked as an executive in businesses in the tourism, communication, and advertising sectors.
For ten years, she actively participated in the Research & Development department of a large company, traveling within and outside of Europe at regular intervals, monitoring and learning about the production process of various products.
She has been involved in wholesale and retail trade in a company specializing in children’s products, with an emphasis on online sales.
Since 2021, she has been working as a Project Manager at Chef Stories.
Project assistant
Ελισάβετ Τσουμάνη
Elisavet Tsoumani, a graduate of the Department of German Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, furthered her knowledge with a second degree in Business Management specializing in Marketing.
With a good command of computer usage and excellent knowledge in both English and German, she has worked in a company trading office machinery, focusing on communication and order management with international clients.
In recent years, she has been working as a Project Assistant at Chef Stories.
Ανάλογα με τις ανάγκες του κάθε project συνεργαζόμαστε με επιλεγμένους επαγγελματίες που έχουν υψηλή εξειδίκευση και αξιοσημείωτη εμπειρία – συμβούλους marketing, επικοινωνίας και εκπαίδευσης, γεωπόνους, πιστοποιημένους γευσιγνώστες (λαδιού, κρασιού, καφέ, μπύρας), chefs, διατροφολόγους, τεχνολόγους τροφίμων, εταιρείες ερευνών – και που αποτελούν την εγγύηση για ένα απολαυστικό και ουσιαστικό ταξίδι στον κόσμο της ελληνικής γαστρονομίας.