Antonis Semelides was born in Cyprus. He graduated from University of Florida as a mechanical engineer. He obtained Masters of Science from University of Florida. From 1988 until 1990 he worked as Consulting Engineer with ICM Consultants, Florida, USA. From 1990 until 1991 he was a Chief Engineer at Sanotel Hotel Chain in Cyprus. In the period 1991-1996 he was Retail Stations and Terminal Engineer, BP Cyprus while from 2001 until 2003 he was a Supply and Logistics Manager. Mr. Semelides was a Supply and Operations Manager at Hellenic Petroleum in Cyprus from 2003 until 2014 while from 2014 until 2016 he was Operations Director. In 2016 he was also Retail Network Development Director in EKO, Bulgaria. Since 2016 he has covering a position of CEO of Jugopetrol AD.