Christopher Brellis.
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Strategic Designer of the usefully improbable.

Christopher Brellis — systemic designer & innovation leader, Senior Manager at EY Studio+. 25+ years of turning ambiguity into things people love.

currently making sense of → new experiences for FS

01 In short

I turn ambiguity into clarity.

25+ years designing services, systems and digital experiences — for banks, governments, cultural institutions and brands — connecting vision, operations and culture into strategies that deliver measurable impact.

Most recently: GenAI-enabled transformation, agentic AI and new operating models for European financial services.

Working on: systems maps, journeys, governance models, foresight and roadmaps — delivered through AI-augmented ways of working.

02 Capabilities

What I bring.

03 What I do now

Currently.

At EY Studio+ I sit where design meets the P&L — treating organisations as living systems, and leading experience transformation for financial services, government and healthcare clients across Greece, the UK, the Nordics and MENA.

A

Experience & Foresight Strategy

Customer-centric transformation with a future-facing lens: research, benchmarking, journey architecture, future-readiness planning, and the roadmaps that make them fundable.

journeys · foresight · vision-setting · roadmaps

B

Innovation & GenAI

EY AI Ambassador and resident innovation agitator. Designing and deploying AI chatbots, agentic workflows, and GenAI-enabled operating models that survive contact with compliance.

agentic AI · operating models · what’s next

C

Systemic & Service Design

Whole-system problem solving at C-suite altitude — executive alignment workshops, EY Wavespace sessions, and service blueprints connecting government bodies and private providers.

systems maps · blueprints · co-creation

D

Design Leadership & Systems

UX/UI leadership and Design System delivery for banking platforms — web, intranet, e-banking, and touchscreen branch experiences. Teams led across five countries.

design systems · UX/UI · cross-border teams

My commitment

I design the systems behind
what makes us feel.

04 The record

25+ years, abridged.

    • Cross-border delivery across the UK, Sweden, UAE and KSA, including a large-scale Employee Experience platform for a UAE government agency.
    • Led the CX-driven redesign and Sitecore re-platforming of a leading Greek bank — research, benchmarking, journey flows, UX/UI, visual language and Design System.
    • Lead designer for the same bank’s intranet transformation and foundational e-banking journeys, built around personas and prioritised flows.
    • Designed and deployed AI-powered chatbot solutions; creator and evangelist of agentic AI within EY’s AI Ambassador community.
    • Service Design lead in healthcare — collaborative solutions between government bodies and private providers.
    • Strategy engagements in the cultural sector: vision-setting, customer insight, future-readiness.
    • Led the digital transformation of the programme — full curriculum redesign and syllabi authoring, validated by the Open University, UK.
    • Ground-up AR app for leading European luxury audio/visual brands. Its pandemic-era release contributed to a 7.4% share value increase and 10.4% sales growth in Q3 2021.
    • Conceived and organised the new Department of Design Innovation Research; findings shaped new product development and competitive analysis frameworks.
    • Agile management of UX/UI design operations for a major global FMCG portal — released in over 80 languages with minimal disruption.
    • Strategic ATL/BTL conceptualisation and delivery; led the newly established local team into Leo Burnett’s global partner network.
    • Innovation design studio serving luxury, FMCG and cultural clients: Samsung, Procter & Gamble, Sony, DKNY, the New Acropolis Museum, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Onassis Foundation.
    • External design provider to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee.
    • Cultural work spanning projection mapping, environments and interactive experiences.

Education

  • MA (RCA) Design — Royal College of Art, London
  • BA (Hons) 3D Design, First Class — Ravensbourne University, London
  • Foundation studies in Art & Design — Central Saint Martins, London
  • PGDip Philosophy — Birkbeck, University of London
  • Japanese Urushi — Kyoto City University of Arts

Academic Posts

  • American University of Greece — Graphic Design, Course Leader, 2019–2022
  • University of the Aegean — Design & Innovation, 2005–10
  • Loughborough University — Product Design, 1999–01
  • Kyoto College of Art & Design — Guest Lecturer, 1998

Public Talks

  • Onassis ONX, New York — AI & Mixed Reality in Moving Image, 2025
  • British Council Athens — Circular Cultures
  • Google Culture Shift — Technology Meets Art
  • Rothschild & Co, London — Startup & Entrepreneurship

05 Contact

Let’s design what comes next.

hello@antidot.gr

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