New member in OTE's BoD

NEW MEMBER IN OTE's BOD

ATHENS, Greece - July 19, 2012 - Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (ASE: HTO, OTC MARKET: HLTOY), the Greek full-service telecommunications provider, announces that its executive BoD member Mr. Kevin Copp has submitted his resignation. Following the submitted resignation, OTE's Board of Directors, elected Mr. Charalambos Mazarakis, as new member (executive) of the BoD, in replacement of Mr Kevin Copp, for the rest of the latter's tenure, namely until the date of the Ordinary Shareholders' General Meeting of the year 2015.

CV of Mr Charalambos Mazarakis

Mr. C. Mazarakis, 47 years old, has 20 years of professional experience, chiefly in senior management positions in Greece and abroad.

Before joining OTE Group, on July 1st, 2012, as OTE Group Chief Financial Officer, Mr Mazarakis was Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the National Bank of Greece, which is listed on the Athens and New York Stock Exchanges and from 2008 until 2010 he was Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Member of the Group Executive Committee of TITAN Cement Company, which is listed on the Athens Stock Exchange.

From 1999 to 2008 Mr Mazarakis served in various executive positions in Vodafone Group. Initially, he was Group CFO and Member of the BoD in Greece (1999-2006), then Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Hungary (2006-2007) and in 2007 he returned to Greece as COO and Vice-Chairman of the BoD.

During the period 1997-1999 he held the position of Finance Director and Member of the BoD at Georgia Pacific-Delica in Greece, while from 1992 until 1997 he worked as Financial Analysis Group Manager at Procter & Gamble, first in Athens and then in the European Headquarters in Brussels.

Mr Mazarakis holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus (with distinction) and an MBA from the Ohio State University, The Fischer School of Business (with Wielder Scholar), where he was Teaching Assistant in Finance. He has been listed among the 30 most distinguished CFOs in Europe below 40 years old (2002, CFO Europe magazine).

OTE Group is Greece's leading telecommunications organization and one of the pre-eminent players in Southeastern Europe, providing top-quality products and services to its customers.

Apart from serving as a full service telecommunications group in the Greek telecoms market, OTE Group has also expanded during the last decade its geographical footprint throughout South East Europe, having acquired a stake in the incumbent telecommunications company of Romania and establishing mobile operations in Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. At present, companies in which OTE Group has an equity interest employ about 28,900 people in four countries, and our portfolio of solutions ranges from fixed and mobile telephony to Internet applications, satellite, maritime communications and consultancy services.

Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, the company trades under the ticker HTO. Following OTE's delisting from NYSE, OTE ADSs (American Depositary Shares) trade in the OTC (Over The Counter) market under the ticker HLTOY.

Additional Information is also available on:

http://www.ote.gr/portal/page/portal/InvestorRelation/InvestorRelation

Contacts:

OTE: Dimitris Tzelepis - Head of Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1574, Email: dtzelepis@ote.gr 

Maria Kountouri - Assistant to the Head of Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 5381, Email: mkountouri@ote.gr 

Kostas Maselis - Senior Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7593, Email: kmaselis@ote.gr

Sofia Ziavra - Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 8190, Email: sziavra@ote.gr

Christina Hadjigeorgiou - Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1428, Email: cchatzigeo@ote.gr

Daria Kozanoglou - Senior Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer,

Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1121, Email: nkozanoglou@ote.gr

Eftychia Tourna - Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7236, Email:etourna@ote.gr

Eleni Agoglossaki - Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7880, Email: eagoglossak@ote.gr