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On the surface, it appears control - lable by lifestyle changes and regular checkups. But then there are the shock - ing cases of people who, on the 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans surface, have no such risk fac - tors but are killed by sudden, How does one measure success? It’s different for each per - massive heart attacks that seem son. Nevertheless, the best human minds strive to find solutions to come out of nowhere. When where there are problems, to explore new approaches to the these happen, most people sim - same old obstacles – or, in the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson ply shake their heads and con - in his poem “Ulysses,” referring to the Roman interpretation of clude there are some deaths that the great Greek hero Odysseus, “To strive, to seek, to find, and simply attack with swift, ran - not to yield.” dom cruelty. In this, our 2013 issue dedicated to the Massachusetts native George The George D. Behrakis Cardioresearch Fellows in the lab at Brigham Women’s hospital in 50 Wealthiest Greek-Americans, we high - Behrakis, the son of Greek im - Boston. From left: Michail Papafaklis (seated), Dr Peter Stone, research leader (standing), An - light those in our community who have migrants who built an im - tonios Antoniadis (seated), Yiannis Chatzizisis (standing). reached the heights of business success. mensely successful pharmaceu - They cover a wide spectrum of industries: tical career and has donated coronary research. Stone’s work cardiology research to come to while they are in the U.S., which energy, retail, finance, shipping, food ser - much of his wealth to medical focuses on examining the details Boston and work with Stone for comes to about $140,000 per vice, engineering, publishing, entertain - causes, knew there was more to of blood flow within the coro - two years, then return to Greece year per fellow. ment – to name a few. The newest it than that. And he believed he nary arteries and the presence where they can put what they “The condition is that they name on our list, John Paul DeJoria, could make a contribution. of plaque, which clogs the walls learned into practice. So far, the go back, because I don’t want is the wealthiest American of Greek descent “Being in the healthcare mar - of the arteries, and figuring out George D. Behrakis Cardiovas - the brain drain from there,” and the only one to have made his fortune ket, I knew that the grant fund - how to detect this while the per - cular Research Fellowship has Behrakis said. in the beauty industry with hair care prod - ing was slowly diminishing, at son is still alive, to prevent mas - sponsored four Greek cardiolo - And Stone confirms that ucts and later, with tequila. These people a very accelerated rate, and I sive heart attacks from occur - gists: Yiannis Chatzizisis, 36, there is indeed immense scien - have enriched themselves, but in so doing, felt that the private sector ring. Kostas Koskinas (who has re - tific brainpower in Greece. also enriched their communities by pro - needed to come forward and “My parents came here from turned to Greece), Antonios An - Chatzizisis, Antoniadis, and Pa - viding jobs, business opportunities and buy - fund some of the research,” he Greece; I have a lot of relatives toniadis, 36, (all from the Aris - pafaklis all told TNH they look ing power to others. In that spirit, we attempt to list the number said in a video he filmed re - in Greece who are physicians. totle University Medical School forward to dividing their time of employees for each individual, to show the free enterprise cently for the development of - Peter Stone brought up the fact of Thessaloniki under the men - among research, teaching, and system at work. fice of Brigham & Women’s Hos - that he wanted some Greek torship of cardiologist George working directly with patients We at TNH also believe that of those to whom much is pital in Boston, one of the physicians to come here, to train D. Giannoglou), and Michael when they return. given, much is expected. The most successful among us are teaching hospitals affiliated with them in research in the cardiol - Papafaklis, 35 (from the Univer - “It’s an incredible opportu - also the most willing to use their wealth to make a better world Harvard Medical School. “I ogy lab,” Behrakis said. “I’ve sity of Ioannina, who worked nity that he has provided to by freely giving out of compassion for those less fortunate. The picked Brigham & Women’s be - been in the pharmaceutical busi - with Dr. Lambros Michalis). these young scientists,” said wisest of them know “there, but for the grace of God, go I.” cause I’ve known these people ness for many years, and I’m a They were chosen based on Stone, who described his Greek (Note that the numbers listed are not always drawn from for 25, 30 years,” as part of his firm believer that the Greeks in their mentors’ recommendation researchers as having “mind- the individuals themselves, but estimated figures, mostly drawn long pharmaceutical career. America that have been success - and upon review of the research boggling productivity. It’s been from public sources. We use the same ranking method as Forbes; After spending some time on ful should do something for and publications they had pre - a wonderful collaboration; the i.e., rather than listing them 1 through 50, we rank them ac - the advisory board of the Har - Greece, for our parents and viously done. Greek fellows have been ex - cording to their estimated wealth. That is why, for example, vard School of Public Health, he grandparents’ home.” Stone said Behrakis’ contri - tremely talented and have a you will find that the three people on our list each worth $40 met Brigham & Women's cardi - For the past five years, butions cover the fellows’ very intense background in the million, are all ranked as 35th.) ologist Peter H. Stone, who has Behrakis has been sponsoring salaries, travel, academic and devoted the last 25 years to young Greek doctors trained in professional research expenses Continued on page 4 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans 3 4 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 Metropoulos approved as lead bidder for Hostess Behrakis Brings Greece By Dawn McCarty Bloomberg News and Sophia Stratakis Huling, and Harvard TNH Staff Together C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. won court approval on Feb 13 to be the among the stalking- Continued from page 2 horse, or lead, bidders for most of Hostess’s cake and bread things we do. The work they do brands, setting the thresholds under the sponsorship of Mr. other suitors will have to ex - Behrakis has been published in ceed. the most prestigious journals in U.S. Bankruptcy Judge the world as the first author.” Robert Drain in White Plains, Stone learned that sudden N.Y. approved Metropoulos heart attacks like those that fa - along with Flower Foods Inc., mously killed television journal - McKee Foods Corp., United ist Tim Russert actually do not States Bakery Inc., Apollo occur randomly, but in specific Global Management LLC. A sale areas of the coronary arteries hearing to approve the highest which develop atherosclerosis, and best bids is set for March or hardening of the arteries, 19. with the build-up of plaque de - Apollo and Metropoulos of - posits. Doctors can find those fered as much as $410 million deposits if they are blocking the for the Hostess snack-cake busi - blood flow inside the arteries by ness, which includes Dolly a procedure called an an - Madison brands, five bakeries giogram. The angiogram exam - and equipment. Leon Black’s ines the inside of the artery Apollo, based in New York, man - where the blood is flowing, and aged $109.7 billion in assets as TNH ARCHIVES can find any obstructions. In of Sept. 30. C. Dean Metropoulos (standing), is chairman and CEO of many cases, however, the de - Metropoulos, based in Metropoulos & Co., which was recently approved as the lead posits are inside the artery Greenwich, Connecticut, is the bidder for the cakes business of bankrupt Twinkies maker walls, where the atherosclerosis private-equity firm that owns Hostess Brands Inc. that builds is most dangerous Pabst Brewing Co. The company because it is invisible. has built a reputation in busi - lead bid for Hostess’s Wonder, union retirees already receiving Stone used the image of a ness circles for turning around Butternut, Home Pride, Merita benefits through May 31. donut hole to illustrate the failing consumer brands, includ - and Nature’s Pride brands, 20 artery. Blood flows through the ing Pabst and Premier Foods, bread plants, 38 depots and rETIrEE ClAIMS hole, while the solid part of the the U.K.’s largest food company. other assets. The union retirees, collec - donut, surrounding the hole, is In January, Daren Metropou - Flowers offered $360 mil - tively, will have a pre-bank - the artery wall. los, a principal at C. Dean lion, plus $30 million for the ruptcy unsecured claim against “If that plaque becomes Metropoulos & Co. and son of Beefsteak brand. An auction is the bankruptcy estate in the highly inflamed, which it typi - Dean Metropoulos, was quoted set for Feb. 28. amount of $7.4 million, accord - cally does -- it’s like a pimple, in Bloomberg as saying, “It Flowers, established in 1919, ing to court papers filed today. quite literally,” Stone said. “If would be a tremendous oppor - produces and markets packaged That claim will be divided that pimple in the artery wall tunity to resurrect these leg - baked goods for retail and food- among the unions. A hearing pops, a blood clot forms in an endary brands and bring them service customers. The com - was held on Feb. 21 to approve instant, and you die with a mas - back to the consumer.” pany’s top brands are Nature’s the accord. sive heart attack. And you can’t Hostess, founded in 1930, is Own and Tastykake. The Interstate Brands Corp.- see it often until it ruptures and liquidating after failing to reach McKee, maker of Little Deb - International Brotherhood of causes a blood clot and it kills an agreement with striking bak - bie snacks, agreed to pay $27.5 Teamsters National Negotiating you.” ers on concessions to help the million for Drake’s. United Committee will have a claim of Stone said half of the people company emerge from its sec - States Bakery offered to buy the $1.8 million; the Bakery, Con - lIFE INSurANCE ceive medical benefits and about with coronary artery atheroscle - ond bankruptcy. Initial bids for Sweetheart, Eddy’s, Standish fectionery, Tobacco Workers and In a separate accord with the 1,104 receive post-retirement rosis are not even aware they assets total about $858 million Farms and Grandma Emilie’s Grain Millers International official committee of retired em - life insurance, according to court have it until they have a heart with about $100 million more bread brands, four bakeries and Union will have a claim of ployees, Hostess will continue to documents. attack; and half of those people for sale, Chief Executive Officer 14 depots, plus certain equip - $50,680; the International provide life insurance benefits Previously known as Inter - die on the spot and never even Greg Rayburn said Jan. 31. ment, for $28.9 million. A Union, United Automobile, to the same retirees currently re - state Bakeries Corp., Hostess left make it to the hospital. That was A spokeswoman for March 15 auction date for Aerospace and Agricultural Im - ceiving life insurance benefits an earlier bankruptcy in 2009 precisely what happened to Metropoulos told TNH the com - Drake’s and the four bread plement Workers of America through the end of this month. under the control of buyout firm Russert and continues to happen pany is “still going thorough” brands has been set. UAW will have a claim of $5.4 Hostess will also provide retiree Ripplewood Holdings LLC and to millions of others around the the bidding process, and that Heather Lennox, a lawyer for million; and the United Steel, medical benefits through the lenders. The company, based in world. Metropoulos is not giving any Hostess, told Drain that an Paper and Forestry, Rubber, end of May. Irving, Texas, entered bank - “Russert was known to have interviews about the matter. agreement on retiree benefits Manufacturing, Energy, Allied The retirees, collectively, will ruptcy again in January 2012. coronary disease; it was thought was reached with four unions Industrial and Service Workers have a pre-bankruptcy unse - The case is In re Hostess to be under control, but it was HOME PrIDE covering 233 former employees. International Union will have a cured claim in the amount of Brands Inc., 12-22052, U.S. not under control,” said Stone. Flowers, based in Hostess will continue to provide claim of $102,409, according to $10.5 million, according to court Bankruptcy Court, Southern Dis - Thomasville, Georgia, made the retiree benefits to the same court papers. papers. About 244 retirees re - trict of New York (White Plains). Continued on page 8 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans 5

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JOHN PAUL million. Dolphin Award from The Malibu Ari Haseotes and his wife Ashley primarily in western Pennsylva - 1. DEJORIA In 1989, after his partner Times. John Paul was also hon - also founded the One Mission nia and Western New York. His $4 BIllION HAIr CArE Paul Mitchell died, DeJoria ored with the Sustainability (www.onemission.org) child - most recent projects include sev - PrODuCTS, SPIrITS found another partner and Award for his dedication to en - hood cancer foundation. eral residential development Born the son of an Italian im - launched Patron, a premium vironmental preservation at www.cumberlandfarms.com projects in Brooklyn, and invest - migrant father and a Greek im - tequila, something unheard-of Fashion Group International’s ing in health-related companies. migrant mother who divorced at that time. His friend Clint 25th annual Night of Stars JOHN A. Catsimatidis is a licensed pi - by the time he was 2, DeJoria, Eastwood put it in his film “In event, and was inducted as a 3. CATSIMATIDIS lot, though eye surgery has 69, has known poverty repeat - the Line of Fire,” celebrity chef lifetime member into the Hora - $3 BIllION OIl, rEAl grounded him over the past few edly: first during his childhood Wolfgang Puck endorsed it, and tio Alger Association of Distin - ESTATE, SuPErMArKETS years. He has helped raise mil - being raised by a single mother DeJoria gave it away at Paul guished Americans in honor of Ranked 132nd among the lions for Alzheimer’s, Parkin - in Los Angeles, and two periods Mitchell events. Today Patron his journey to overcome humble Forbes 400, John Catsimatidis, son’s, and Juvenile Diabetes re - of homelessness as an adult. To - Spirits sells the world’s ultra-pre - beginnings to achieve success. 64, is chairman & CEO of the search. He served as day, Forbes counts him 92nd on mium tequila, with more than 2 He and his third wife, the for - Red Apple Group. Ranked 97th co-chairman and founder of the its 400 Richest Americans, 276th million cases sold in 2011, as mer Eloise Brady, are based in among the country’s largest pri - Brooklyn Tech Endowment among the World’s Billionaires, well as rum and vodka. Austin, Texas. He has four chil - vately held companies by Forbes, Foundation. The $10 million and one of America’s Richest Liv - DeJoria has been quoted say - dren. with 8,000 employees and esti - fund is the largest gift to a sec - ing Veterans. His John Paul ing the key to success it to be www.paulmitchell.com, mated annual revenues of $4 bil - ondary school in the United Mitchell hair products and Pa - prepared for rejection. As a life - www.cnn.com, www.entrepre - Farms, Exxon, and Gulf names. lion, Red Apple has holdings in States. Since 1988 he has tron Spirits are each worth at long salesman, he has faced neur.com Its Gulf Oil arm sells gasoline to oil refining, retail petroleum funded scholarships at the NYU least $1 billion. Paul Mitchell more than his share. Remember - franchised service stations. The products, convenience stores, su - School of Business. He is also products are available in more ing his three-year stint selling HASEOTES company first added a gas sta - permarkets and real estate. With the publisher of the Hellenic than 100,000 salons in the U.S. Collier’s Encyclopedias door-to- 2. FAMILY tion to one of its stores in 1971 a major focus on energy, Catsi - Times. He is married and the fa - door, he said, “Doors literally $3.8 BIllION DAIrY, and expanded greatly in the matidis’ fortune accelerated with ther of two children. His wife slam in your face – maybe 30, CONVENIENCE STOrES, wake of the 1973-74 Arab oil rising oil prices. Margo runs his company’s in- 40 doors before the first cus - PETrOlEuM PrODuCTS embargo. By 1975 Cumberland house advertising agency. Their tomer will actually talk to you.” Vasilios and Aphrodite Farms opened its 1,000th store. Hellenic Times Scholarship But, he advised would-be entre - Haseotes emigrated from The following year, it opened a Fund, which has awarded hun - preneurs, no matter how many Greece’s Macedonia and Epirus 560,000-square-foot bakery and dreds of thousands in scholar - rejections you get, go to the next regions to the U.S., buying a warehouse in Westborough, ships to Greek American stu - door with the same enthusiasm one-cow dairy farm in Cumber - Mass, and purchased more than dents, celebrated its 20th as you had at the first, with a land, R.I. for $84 in 1938. Cum - 500 Gulf and Chevron service Anniversary last May. Catsima - smile on your face. berland Farms (incorporated in stations and related assets in 11 tidis, who first considered run - He has also been quoted 1957) eventually grew to be - Northeastern states. The trans - ning for mayor of New York in telling a story that when he was come the largest dairy farm op - action included contracts to sup - 2009, officially announced his 5, his mother didn’t have enough eration in Massachusetts. In ply gasoline to about 1,700 Gulf candidacy in January 2013. “I money to buy her sons Christ - 1956, the company opened a dealers and 2,000 stations, mak - care about making New York mas presents. As they walked jug-milk store in Bellingham, ing Cumberland Farms the better,” he said at his candidacy through downtown Los Angeles, Mass. Few convenience food largest independent seller of announcement, and for people his mother pointed to a woman stores offering dawn-to- mid - gasoline in America. In 2010, to say when he was done: “You wearing a navy blue suit ringing night service every day of the Gulf Oil L.P., a subsidiary of know something, you did a great a bell. “Boys,” his mother said, week existed in the North in the Cumberland Farms, announced job.” He was among the leading His first job, at 9 years old, “I’m giving you a dime. See that 1950’s. it had acquired all rights, title Greek-Americans actively in - was selling greeting cards door- lady ringing the bell? Put this in But by 1967, there were and interest to the “Gulf” brand volved in Republican fundraising to-door. He and his brother had her bucket.” DeJoria didn’t un - some 8,000. With some 400 in the U.S. In 2012, Cumberland His parents came to America for the 2012 presidential race. paper routes through their derstand; 10 cents was a lot for stores, Cumberland Farms was Gulf Group announced that it is with him from the island of Nisy - school years. After high school a kid who didn’t have much in among the industry leaders. By entering the electricity business ros while he was a child. He GEORGE P. and two years in the U.S. Navy, 1950. Why did he have to give the early 1990’s, Cumberland in Connecticut. grew up in New York City on 4. MITCHELL DeJoria did whatever it took to it away? “That’s the Salvation Farms ranked third among the At one point Cumberland Manhattan’s west side. He at - $2 BIllION (ENErGY, rEAl make ends meet—from selling Army. They need it more than country’s convenience store Farms had 1,200 stores, about tended New York University, but ESTATE) encyclopedias and working as a we do,” was her reply. From that chains, and was also a leader in half of which were selling gas. dropped out before completing Ranked 239th among Forbes’ janitor to pumping gasoline. experience, he learned that “suc - both the retail and wholesale Now a company of over 1,000 his degree requirements because “400 Richest Americans” and During his first homeless period, cess unshared is failure.” distribution of petroleum prod - retail stores and stations and of business demands. He opened 578th among Forbes’ “World's after he and his then-wife sepa - The vast list of charities sup - ucts. 6,500 employees, Forbes ranked his first grocery store in 1969, Billionaires”, Mr. Mitchell is rated, he collected bottles to stay ported by John Paul Mitchell A closely held family-owned Cumberland Farms the 30th and owned ten stores by the age chairman of GPM Inc., and is afloat, all while caring for his 2- Systems includes the Boys & company since its inception, largest privately held company of 24, making $25 million a year now 93 years of age. year-old son. Eventually, he took Girls Clubs of America, the Cumberland Farms has since in the U.S. in 2012 (up from in revenue. He plowed $5 mil - The son of a Greek immigrant his talents to several hair care American Cancer Society, grown to become a multi-billion- 37th the previous year). Bentas lion into Manhattan real estate goatherd, he grew up in Galve - and cosmetic companies before Food4Africa, Grow Appalachia, dollar corporation. Lily told TNH their annual sales are in 1977; that property was ston, Texas – in the same build - becoming an independent con - and Chrysalis, a nonprofit group (Haseotes) Bentas, daughter of now at $15 billion. worth $100 million just five ing where his father’s dry clean - sultant. In 1980, he teamed up that helps homeless and low-in - Vasilios and Aphrodite Haseotes, Bentas added the company years later. ing shop was located. A 1940 with his friend Paul Mitchell to come people get back on their is chairman of the board of di - continues to grow and improve. Today, Red Apple reportedly graduate of Texas A&M Univer - launch John Paul Mitchell Sys - feet and find the path to self- rectors. Her nephew, Ari “The company is continuing to owns $500 million worth of sity with a degree in petroleum tems, a line of high-end hair care sufficiency. DeJoria is also a pa - Haseotes, is the president. upgrade its locations and offer property and the Gristedes su - engineering, he served in the products. The partners began tron of Mineseeker, a non-profit Company headquarters are in more prepared foods. We are permarket chain. He stumbled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with $700, DeJoria living in his organization dedicated to seek - Framingham, Mass. Cumberland constantly updating our sites.” upon the Chapter 11 proceed - during World War II before car at the time. He said he ing solutions to the worldwide Farms owns and operates con - Cumberland Farms has given ings of United Refining in War - founding Roxoil Drilling, which knocked on salon doors until he problem of landmines. In 2006, venience stores and gas stations millions in cash and products to ren, Pa. and purchased the oil eventually became Mitchell En - got 12 orders and checks. After he was appointed Admiral by throughout New England, New benefit young people, from its refiner’s stock for $7.5 million. ergy & Development Corp, with two years of hand-to-mouth the governor of Texas, and he York, the Mid-Atlantic States and Believe and Achieve Scholarship Today, the firm owns 375 gas work, the company grossed $1 received the Citizen of the Year Florida under the Cumberland program to hunger relief efforts. outlets and convenience stores, Continued on page 8 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans 7

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Continued from page 4 therefore change public health.” Continued from page 6 the Alaska wildlife refuge, and He noted that what is needed has funded a $10 million Na - “It was too inflamed and the for Greece’s recovery is not nec - his brother Johnny in 1946. tional Academies study on sus - pimple in his artery wall popped essarily money, but an environ - He made his fortune by wild - tainable development and pop - right on the screen and he died ment of “hope and creativity.” catting (i.e., searching for, and ulation growth. on the set. It’s the exact same “We need to find a way to finding, reserves) in North Texas In November 2011, he was – process. Mr. Behrakis’ friend’s bring and to attract young doc - and Southern Louisiana oil and along with Terry Englender and son at the age of 42 had the ex - tors and young scientists from gas fields, and then selling most Gary Lash -- named one of For - act same thing happen a num - all around the world, and to of his company’s interests to De - eign Policy magazine’s Top 100 ber of months ago. It’s ex - transfer all this research and von Energy for $3.5 billion in Global Thinkers “for upending tremely common and extremely clinical experience that they ac - 2001. He invested the proceeds the politics of energy” with his terrifying.” quire to Greece, and integrate of the sale in real estate: e.g., investment, three decades ear - Stone said for the past 20 that into the Greek medical re - Bald Head Island, North Car - lier, in tapping underground nat - years or so, a technology called search and clinical environment olina. He also owns more than ural gas reserves. Last Novem - intra-vascular ultrasound, an ul - and create conditions for a re - 20 hotels and private buildings. ber, the Cynthia and George trasound image of the inside of covery,” said Chatzizisis. “The His son Todd is a major share - Mitchell Foundation commited an artery has been able to detect George D. Behrakis Fellowship holder in Alta Resources, a com - a $20 million gift to benefit the plaque deposits inside the artery has been a great paradigm to - pany developing shale assets. Mitchell Institute for Fundamen - wall. But only 5 percent of those George Behrakis ward this direction.” tal Physics and Astronomy at inner-wall deposits ever become Stone said the vast majority Texas A&M University. The gift’s inflamed enough to cause a lanta, Ga. While attending a car - and good quality of everyday of people over 45 or so who die intent is to help transform Texas heart attack, he said. Those 5 diology conference in Chicago practice and try to help people. suddenly almost always die A&M into a world leader in fun - percent become stimulated and with his co-researcher Charles From my perspective, this is def - from this sudden rupture of a damental physics and astron - inflamed by an abnormal blood L. Feldman, Stone met Papafak - initely the most rewarding mis - plaque deposit hiding within omy. This gift solidifies Mitchell's flow pattern in the artery. By lis, who was presenting his PhD sion that a doctor can accom - their coronary artery wall. The position as the university’s most measuring the friction (the sci - paper on computing shear plish,” Antoniadis said. With hope of researchers is if the dan - generous donor, with a com - entific term is “shear stress”) of stress. regard to splitting his time be - gerous deposit is detected, they bined giving total exceeding $95 the blood flow in the artery, re - “We saw Michail and said, tween patient care and teach - can prevent it from rupturing by million. searchers can find the abnormal ‘Wow, that’s incredible that ing, he said, “It is the duty of implanting a stent, or a tube or disturbed blood flow, which you’re doing this; that’s what we every doctor, in fact, to transfer that will hold the artery open MICHAEL points to the location of a do as well,’” said Stone. knowledge to younger col - and allow the blood to flow 5. JAHARIS plaque deposit inside the artery Papafaklis, who arrived in leagues. So we have to teach ju - more smoothly. Stents are com - $1.9 BIllION wall. That abnormal blood flow Boston in 2010, described it as nior doctors and medical stu - monly used when the blockage PHArMACEuTICAlS stimulates the plaque and “quite fantastic” that two estab - dents whatever we know, and in the artery can be seen, but Ranked 250th among the causes it to burst. lished researchers would come demonstrate how to transfer not for patients who have Forbes Richest 400 Americans “For the 5 percent (of plaque to hear his presentation. this knowledge to patient-ori - plaque within the artery walls. with an estimated net worth of deposits) that get worse and “They suggested I should ented outcomes.” “If we are successful with $1.9 billion Michael Jaharis, 84, worse and then kill us, our hy - consider the possibility of com - Chatzizisis first arrived in these efforts, we will save mil - Mitchell resides in The Wood - founded Kos Pharmaceuticals. pothesis is that we can figure ing to work with them in Boston in 2005, on his own ini - lions of lives, heart attacks, dis - lands, an environmentally Jaharis, the son of Greek im - out which are those 5 percent Boston. Saying that now, after tiative and with his own money, rupted families, lost productiv - friendly region he founded in migrants, is a native of Chicago; by looking at the local blood almost five years, I really still after hearing of Stone’s work ity,” he said. “That’s why this 1974. His wife, Cynthia, passed he earned his bachelor’s degree flow patterns on a microscopic get the chills when I remember through his mentor, Giannoglou, has been like a religion to us.” away in 2009. They have ten from Carroll University in Wis - level,” he said. “This is what that,” he said. “Enriched with in Thessaloniki. He worked with But reaching the point of children and 28 grandchildren. consin. He served in the U.S. we’re experimenting with.” this experience, we can go back Stone for two years, but finally providing preventive treatment The Mitchells have been one Army Medical Corps during the Stone and his colleagues to Greece and really enrich our could no longer manage finan - for these hidden plaque deposits of A&M’s largest private bene - Korean War and later attended have confirmed these findings Greek society with this experi - cially. At that time, he and Stone is an entirely different project: factors. Their gifts in support of night school at DePaul Univer - by doing research on pigs, and ence, and hopefully we will try presented Behrakis with their re - convincing a drug or stent com - the University’s Physics depart - sity to earn his law degree while also some limited clinical trials and make a better place for search of the past two years, and pany to fund a major clinical ment include $35 million for working as a sales representative on humans. medical practice and for re - Behrakis agreed to generously trial costing tens of millions of two new facilities which opened for Miles Laboratories. In 1972, The shear stress is calculated search in the Greek community.” fund their continuing work, set - dollars, said Stone. “We need in 2009. Mitchell had reportedly Jaharis and partner Phillip Frost by creating three-dimensional All institutions of higher ting the foundation for the first of al to convince a company contributed $159 million to ed - acquired Key Pharmaceuticals representations of the coronary learning are state-sponsored in group’s great scientific achieve - that the money is worth invest - ucational institutions by 2011. and transformed the tiny pro - arteries “based on angiogram Greece and together with pub - ments. Chatzizisis went back to ing in this kind of trial, because Major interests have included ducer of cough and cold reme - and intra-vascular ultrasound licly funded hospitals they are Greece in 2008 to finish his car - it can be so much more effec - historic preservation, including dies into a powerhouse company data and then simulate blood no doubt experiencing budget diology training, and returned tive. And companies will only helping to rejuvenate Galve - with newly developed top-sell - flow using sophisticated com - cuts as a result of the country’s to Boston as a Behrakis Fellow do that if it’s very, very clear that ston’s historic Strand District and ing asthma and cardiovascular puter algorithms,” or software, fiscal calamity. That in turn in 2012. they’re going to win,” he said. helped revitalize the city’s mid- drugs. Under his leadership, said Antoniadis, who began his means more patients seeking Chatzizisis especially praised Stone said he and his current winter Mardi Gras celebration. Key’s sales increased 100-fold fellowship in Boston in 2011. care at public hospitals rather Behrakis for his “investment trio of Greek researchers re - Mitchell still goes to his office before the company’s $836 mil - Stone said there are no more than private practices. But An - that he did in science, which cently presented Behrakis with almost every day, and still travels lion merger with Schering- than half a dozen institutions in toniadis still hopes to find a po - paid back substantial contribu - a 200-page book summarizing regularly for business purposes. Plough in 1986. Two years later, the world doing this research, sition at a public hospital. tion to medicine, translated into their work. He is a major benefactor of the Jaharis launched Kos Pharma - including the universities in “Even though the conditions the clinical setting, and we’re “It’s been a fairy tale and a Houston-Galveston area’s hospi - ceuticals, which pioneered the Thessaloniki, Ioannina, and sometimes are tough, I think now at the point to start believ - dream come true for them, and tals. He is also a nature enthusi - HDL cholesterol market with its Athens; Erasmus University in this is the most important aspect ing that we have a tool that can extraordinarily satisfying for all ast, and a believer in environ - good cholesterol-raising drug Ni - Rotterdam, the Netherlands; I can focus on, work in a public change the management of the right reasons for Mr. mental and energy conservation. aspan, before being sold to Ab - and Emory University in At - hospital and do evidence-based coronary artery disease, and Behrakis,” Stone said. He is opposed to oil drilling in bott Laboratories in 2006 for

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identity." Chapman’s School of Business PETER G. awareness of the nature and ur - The Jaharises reside in New and Economics was renamed in 6. PETERSON gency of key fiscal challenges York. They have two children his honor in 1999. He has served $1.2 BIllION, INVESTMENT threatening America's long-term and five grandchildren. on the board of trustees for sev - In 2012 he was ranked 360th future, and to accelerating ac - eral community organizations, on the Forbes 400 and 1,153rd tion on them. The Foundation GEORGE L. including the California Institute on Forbes’ World's Billionaires. works with leading thinkers, pol - 5. ARGYROS of Technology, the Beckman Peter G. Peterson, 86, has moved icy experts, elected officials and $1.9 BIllION rEAl ESTATE, Foundation, the Horatio Alger down in these lists as his dona - the public to build support for INVESTMENTS Association, and Chapman Uni - tions have gone up. He made his efforts to put America on a fis - Ranked 250th on Forbes 400 versity. He owned baseball’s fortune as the co-founder and cally sustainable path. with an estimated net worth of Seattle Mariners between 1980 former chairman of the Black - He’s among the U.S. billion - $1.9 billion, George Argyros, 75, and 1989. In January 2012, he stone Group, one of the world’s aires who decided to take the made his fortune in grocery became a member of the Board largest investment firms with 24 Giving Pledge in 2010 to give stores and real estate. of Regents of the Orange County offices around the world. much of their wealth to charity. He earned his bachelor’s de - Council Boy Scouts of America. Peterson co-founded Black - The Giving Pledge was initiated gree at Chapman University. A In April 2011, he and his wife stone with Stephen Schwarzman by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates second-generation American of made a $5 million gift to an am - in 1985 with $400,000; the Jr. He is also chairman emeritus Greek descent, he was born in bulatory surgery center at the firm’s private equity funds own of the Council on Foreign Rela - $4.2 billion. Today, Jaharis is Detroit, Mich. and raised in University of California. He is an terWorks acquired from French or have interests in 80 compa - tions and founding chairman of founder and director of Arisaph Pasadena, Ca. He went into real Archon of the Ecumenical Patri - Vivendi and subsequently sold nies. The company went public the Peterson Institute for Inter - Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately estate in 1962, selling land at archate’s Order of St. Andrew to Home Depot, it is best known in June 2007 at $31 a share. Pe - national Economics. held drug discovery and bio-tech busy intersections to gas sta - the Apostle. Argyros and his as the #1 acquirer and reviver terson retired from the company Peterson now resides in New company, and a founder of Vat - tions. Today, his privately held wife, Julia, have three children of hundreds of iconic consumer in late 2008, receiving $1.85 bil - York. He is married to Joan Ganz era Healthcare Partners LLC, a Arnel & Affiliates owns and and seven grandchildren. brands; a few of which include: lion in cash upon exiting, before Cooney, founder and former venture capital firm focusing on manages 5,500 apartments and www.arnel.com Chef Boyardee, PAM, Bumble taxes and meeting several trust chairman of Children’s Televi - the healthcare industry. 2 million square feet of commer - Bee, Jiffy Pop, Gulden’s, Vlasic, and charitable obligations. sion Workshop (“Sesame His wife, Mary, attended cial space. Argyros founded the C. DEAN Swanson, Duncan Hines, Aunt The son of Greek immigrants, Street”), and is the father of five Northwestern University and private equity firm Westar Capi - 6. METROPOULOS Jemima, etc. The list also in - Mr. Peterson grew up in Ne - and grandfather of nine. graduated from the Art Institute tal in 1987. He is a board mem - $1.2 BIllION - cludes many European brands braska. He studied at Northwest - of Chicago. ber and the leading investor, MANAGEMENT, like Mumm and Perrier Jouet ern University, where he gradu - ALEX G. SPANOS Proud supporters of Hel - with a reported 20 percent, in ACQuISITIONS champagnes and numerous U.K. ated summa cum laude, and 7. & FAMILY lenism, the Jaharises are major software development firm DST Dean Metropoulos, 66, is brands that were part of Hills - earned his MBA from the Uni - $1.1 BIllION rEAl ESTATE, benefactors of the New York Systems (NYSE:DST) whose very well known in the private down Holdings, an $8 billion versity of Chicago with honors. PrOFESSIONAl FOOTBAll Metropolitan Museum of Art, market capitalization is about equity, investment banking and holding company that He was CEO of Bell and Howell Alex G. Spanos, 89, owns the the Art Institute of Chicago and $2.15 billion. financial community, having Metropoulos restructured and from 1963 to 1971. He served National Football League’s San many cultural, religious, higher spent the past two decades ac - repositioned and took the food as Secretary of Commerce under Diego Chargers. His family is education, and healthcare insti - quiring, restructuring and grow - company public in 2004. Today, ranked 375th on Forbes’ 400 tutions though the Jaharis Fam - ing numerous businesses in the Premier Foods is the U.K.’s Richest Americans list. His for - ily Foundation, Inc. In October U.S., Mexico and Europe. Many largest food company. tune increased since 2004, and 2010, the Mary Jaharis Center of these were subsequently Other well-known businesses then dropped some with the re - for Byzantine Art and Culture taken public or sold to strategic Metropoulos & Co. have owned, cent plunge in the real estate was inaugurated at Hellenic Col - corporations. include Stella Foods, the Morn - market. The rising value of the lege/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Metropoulos is Chairman and ingstar Group, Ghirardelli Chargers – now worth $936 mil - Theological Seminary, which CEO of Metropoulos & Co., a Chocolate Company and Del lion (purchased for $70 million will serve as a premier interna - boutique buyout and manage - Monte Mexico. in 1984) - has offset the real es - tional research center. ment firm. His sons, (Evan, 32 Most recently Metropoulos & tate losses. In 2008, Forbes listed Jaharis also serves as Trustee and Daren, 29) are and have Co. was approved as the lead A.G. Spanos Companies as the Emeritus of Tufts University in been an integral part of the turn - bidder for the iconic brand Host - 403rd largest privately held firm Boston, Mass., Chairman of the around of the acquired compa - ess (Twinkies, Dolly Madison, in the country, with estimated Board of Overseers for the nies. The brothers purchased the etc.). revenues of $1.13 billion. School of Medicine at Tufts Uni - historic Pabst Brewing Company Born in Greece, his family The son of Greek immigrants, versity, Member of the Columbia in 2010. Pabst is today’s fasting moved to America when he was Spanos received his bachelor’s University Medical Center Board growing U.S. brand. nine years of age. His parents, degree at the University of the of Visitors, and Member of the Metropoulos & Co. focuses on typical of many immigrants, Pacific. He began his career as a Board of Overseers of the Weill Former President George W. the acquisition and operation of worked hard and encouraged baker, but then in 1951 he used Cornell Medical College and Bush appointed him U.S. ambas - companies with consumer brand their children to pursue their President Nixon, and became an $800 loan to purchase a Graduate School of Medical Sci - sador to Spain in 2001, after products, and has been involved dreams. Dean is ever mindful chairman of Lehman Brothers in panel truck and began selling ences. leading GOP fundraising efforts in more than 76 acquisitions in - and very grateful for their sacri - 1973. He also chaired the Fed - sandwiches to farm workers. He He is the Vice Chairman of in California in 2000. He hosted volving over $12 billion in in - fices and commitment. eral Reserve Bank of New York then used his profits to invest in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese a $25,000-per-couple dinner for vested capital since 1990. Metropoulos went to college from 2000 to 2004. He is the au - real estate, and by 1960, he had of America’s Archdiocesan Coun - U.S. Senator and then-presiden - Dean Metropoulos says: “I on a scholarship, and after grad - thor of several books, including an incorporated business. Today, cil’s Executive Committee and is tial hopeful John McCain (R-Ari - love finding opportunities, ne - uate school at Babson College a 2009 memoir "The Education his firm is one of America’s one of the Original Founders of zona) at his home in 2008. Ar - gotiating the deals, and reposi - and a year and a half towards of an American Dreamer: How largest housing developers, and Leadership 100 and FAITH: An gyros also served on the Federal tioning the companies into vi - his doctorate at Columbia, he a Son of Greek Immigrants is one of the largest family- Endowment for Hellenism and Home Loan Mortgage Corpora - brant, growing businesses.... If went to work for the GTE Cor - Learned His Way from a Ne - owned construction and prop - Orthodoxy. tion (FreddieMac) under Presi - we’re proud of anything, it is our poration, which is now Verizon. braska Diner to Washington, erty management company in He states, “It is particularly dent George H.W. Bush. commitment to integrity and the After graduate school Metropou - Wall Street, and Beyond" and the United States. It has built important to Mary and me to Argyros resides on Harbor Is - fact that we have never lost los joined GTE International and speaks frequently about issues more than 100,000 units in 19 give back to institutions which land in Newport Bay, Ca. He is a money with any of our acquisi - became its youngest senior vice of fiscal responsibility. Peterson states. have truly inspired us and may recognized business leader and tions in which we have averaged president responsible for their now dedicates his time to his Spanos was inducted into the help open doors for young peo - philanthropist. He was the 1993 44 percent returns over a twenty international business in 62 foundation and other charitable California Building Industry Hall ple and the community. We be - recipient of the Horatio Alger five year period.” Although countries. activities. Established in 2008, of Fame in 2005. He bought 60 lieve that our Hellenic culture Award of Distinguished Ameri - Metropoulos & Co. has partici - Dean Metropoulos and his the Peter G. Peterson Foundation percent of the Chargers from and Orthodox faith provided the cans, and a 2001 recipient of the pated in several industrial acqui - wife Marianne live in Green - is a nonpartisan organization foundation for our values and Ellis Island Medal of Honor. sitions including National Wa - wich, Connecticut. dedicated to increasing public Continued on page 12

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Continued from page 9 and is interviewed regularly by have invested in the biofuels in the company. Forbes tallied CNBC and Bloomberg TV. market. Their Greenwood En - his earnings at $21 million in then-majority owner Eugene Calamos was the first mem - ergy is based in Greenbay, Wisc. just a week in 2011, noting that Klein in 1984. Over the next ten ber in his family to graduate The list of group subsidiaries he held some $655 million of years, he bought out the shares from college. He served in the includes travel writer/TV host the stock – and his brother, “a of several small co-owners, U.S. Air Force, flying the B-52 Leon Logothetis’ Principal Me - mere $389 million worth of Fos - bringing his control of the team Bomber, as a combat pilot in dia, which has provided TV pro - sil stock.” to 97 percent. His son Dean now Vietnam and as a Forward Air gramming since 2005. Other di - Founded by Tom Kartsotis in manages the team. Spanos, one Controller. He later spent twelve versified investments include an 1984, Fossil is a designer and of the largest single private con - years in the USAF Reserves fly - interest in a London-based finan - manufacturer of clothing and ac - tributors to the Republican Party ing the A-37 jet fighter and earn - cial services company and Chios cessories, primarily watches and during Presidential election ing the rank of Major. He keeps Heritage mastic tree farm invest - jewelry, but also sunglasses and years, helped to raise over $2 his aviation skills honed by fly - ments. Libra Capital is the in- wallets. Its brands include Fossil, million for Sen. John McCain’s ing his Marchetti SF260 War - house investment management Relic, Abacus, Michele Watch 2008 Presidential bid. President bird. He credits his Air Force company and Libra Group Ser - and Zodiac. Fossil watches are Bush appointed Spanos to the time for sharpening his risk as - vices, the in-house legal and ad - common in middle-income retail Kennedy Center board in 2004. sessment skills. ministrative and corporate sup - stores, as well as at most depart - Spanos has also contributed mil - He is a member of the Invest - port company service to ment stores. Fossil also branched lions to schools, hospitals and for the stock market as a ment Analysts Society of he became its CEO. Under his companies within the group into the sale of leather goods charity. He received the Medal teenager after investing his par - Chicago and is on the board of leadership, Lomar expanded the based in the U.K. and other accessories in the of the Commander of the Order ents’ $5,000 nest egg. directors of Chicago’s new Na - numbers of ships they owned Logothetis and his wife Nitzia 1990’s. Fossil also designs, man - of Honor from Greek President After earning his MBA, he be - tional Hellenic Museum, of many times over. Then Lomar (formerly Nitzia Embiricos) are ufactures and distributes with Karolos Papoulias in 2008. came an early authority on con - which he is a major benefactor sold 67 of them between 2004 based in New York City and have Burberry, DKNY, Emporio Ar - vertible securities, and launched and Chairman of the Board. He and 2006, investing the profits two sons. George and Nitzia mani, Columbia Sportswear, Calamos Asset Management in says of the museum: “We have in many non-shipping sectors. founded Seleni Institute in 2011 1977. His money management built a national institution to Finally, in 2009, Lomar acquired with the aim of addressing firm serves institutional clients honor our parents and grand - Allocean Group for $325 million, women’s reproductive and ma - and manages mutual funds. The parents, to honor our rich Hel - a buy considered a bargain. Lo - ternal mental health through re - company offers strategies lenic history.” mar has recently started order - search of support and advocacy. through separately managed www.calamos.com ing nearly 20 new fuel-efficient Also in 2011, the group created portfolios, mutual funds, closed- Ultramax and container ships an International Internship Pro - end funds, private funds and GEORGE M. made in China. gram in collaboration with The UCITS funds. Clients include 8. LOGOTHETIS & The group followed a similar American College of Greece in major corporations, pension FAMILY patter with its aircraft leasing Athens and the U.S.-based Greek Diesel, Michael Kors, Marc Ja - funds, endowments, foundations $1 BIllION business, Dublin, Ireland-based America Foundation, giving 30 cobs and Adidas. Fossil also pro - and individuals. Headquartered SHIPPING/AVIATION/rEAl Lease Corporation International young people per annum the op - duces collectibles, some of which in Chicago metropolitan area, ESTATE/ENErGY/HOSPITAlI (LCI). The company was portunity to work at the group’s are based on popular films or the firm also has offices in Lon - TY launched in 2004, only to sell key locations around the world. pop culture characters. It made don and New York. The com - George M. Logothetis, 38, is its entire 21 aircraft fleet in 2007 In November 2012, Libra news in 2011 by acquiring com - pany went public in 2004. the founding Chairman and CEO for $1 billion. The company then committed €5 million toward petitor Skagen Designs. Calamos is chairman, CEO of Libra Group, consisting of 30 invested in a new fleet of some funding the Hellenic Entrepre - The company now offers and Global Co-CIO of Calamos subsidiaries with companies op - 35 aircraft leased to companies neurship Award, a new annual smart watches that would link Spanos has turned the reins Investments, which he runs erating out of 25 offices world - including Singapore Airlines, award program launched by the to phones via Bluetooth. of the company over to his two along with his son John and wide. British Airways and Air France. Hellenic Initiative founded by Tom Kartsotis also owns the sons and prefers to play cards Gary Black, who replaced He founded the privately In early 2012, LCI signed a $400 Andrew Liveris, who is also on Texas company Bedrock Brands. with his friends. “What the heck Calamos' nephew Nicholas P. owned group with his brother million order with AgustaWest - this list. Logothetis serves on the www.fossil.com I’m 85 years old, and my kids Calamos. Nephew Nicholas re - Constantine M. Logothetis in land helicopters. The company’s executive committee along with are doing a good job. It’s their signed from that position last 2003. Today George Logothetis aviation leasing division has ac - Liveris. The Hellenic Initiative’s GEORGE D. turn now,” he told TNH in 2009. August, although he still remains is based in New York, while his quired aircraft valued at $5 bil - aim is to create opportunity and 9. BEHRAKIS In 2002, Spanos published his on the Calamos board. Black's brother, the Executive Vice lion since its formation. employment in Greece by $930 MIllION autobiography entitled “Sharing appointment secured Calamos Chairman of the Group, is based Libra Group’s real estate port - awarding business start-up PHArMACEuTICAlS the Wealth: My Story.” He and Investments' acquisition of Black in London. folio spans much of the planet, funds of between €100,000 and George D. Behrakis, 78, is his wife, Faye, with whom he Capital LLC, which Black The diversified group was with properties and offices in the €500,000 to budding Greek en - founder and chairman of celebrated 63 years of marriage founded in 2009. built upon the decades of work North and South America, Asia trepreneurs. Mythos, LLC, a private invest - in 2011, have four children, 15 A recognized expert in risk- of their father, shipowner and Europe. Libra Group owns www.libra.com ment company based in Lexing - grandchildren and three great managed investing, Calamos Michalis G. Logothetis, who is and runs a total of some 40 ho - ton, Mass. He is also chairman grandsons. was worth $2.7 billion a few on the Libra Group’s board and tels and restaurants, including KOSTA & TOM of Gainesborough Investments, years ago, according to Forbes. is a senior advisor. A series of 10 hotels under development. 8. KARTSOTIS launched in 1998. A 1957 grad - THE CALAMOS Though the 2008 financial crisis strategic steps by the younger The group’s Grace Hotels brand, $1 BIllION WATCHES uate of Northeastern University 8. FAMILY was challenging, the firm is re - generation allowed them to ex - which began on Greek islands, lEATHEr ACCESSOrIES in Boston, Behrakis also studied $1 BIllION MuTuAl FuNDS covering nicely with $30.6 bil - tend into new areas at a time is now found world-wide: in - Kosta Kartsotis, 60, is CEO & at Boston University, and is a rec - John P. Calamos, Sr., 72, lion under management at the when many shipping companies cluding the new Vanderbilt Chairman of Fossil Inc., and Tom ognized leader in the pharma - earned both his bachelor’s de - end of 2012. Calamos also has a were strained. Grace Hotel, in a historic man - Kartsotis, 53, former chairman ceutical industry. He became gree in economics and his MBA private real estate arm, Calamos George M. Logothetis sion in Newport, R.I. and an - and CEO of the company. Fossil best known, perhaps, for his tal - from the Illinois Institute of Real Estate LLC, which includes launched his career at the family other in Beijing, plus a hotel spa is based in Richardson, Texas. It ent in solubilizing previously in - Technology. A son of Greek im - Hotel Arista, CityGate Centre business in London in 1993, planned for Kennebunkport, Me. sells products in 120 countries soluble chemicals and making migrants, he is a product of and other entities that surround when he joined Lomar Shipping, In Greece, Romania and around the world. In 2010 stock them stable for medical use. Chicago public schools, and the investment company’s head - the group’s U.K.-based shipown - Latvia, Libra Group’s EuroEn - prices more than doubled for the After completing his military grew up above his family’s gro - quarters in Naperville, IL. He has ing and management group, ergy has invested in solar energy company, with a 40 percent in - service, Behrakis began his ca - cery store on Chicago’s west written two books, writes for in - which at the time had just two parks, wind farms and biogas crease in global sales. Kosta Kart - side. He developed his passion vestment industry publications ships. 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Continued from page 12 thorities, and commercial and After graduating from high ing member of the National As - industrial customers. school in Greece, Sakellaris ar - sociation of Energy Service Com - reer at McNeil Laboratories (a One of its notable projects in - rived in Bangor, Maine, as a col - panies (NAESCO). He is a for - division of Johnson & Johnson). clude the recently completed De - lege exchange student in 1965 mer President of NAESCO and In 1968, he founded Dooner partment of Energy Savannah to go to college. He spoke little still an active member. In 2005, Laboratories which developed River Site Biomass Cogeneration English when he first enrolled he was invited to join the Clin - and manufactured a leading Project in Aiken, S.C., which at at the University of Maine- ton Climate Initiative, launched asthma medication, Slophyllin $795 million is the largest re - Orono, but worked his way by former President Bill Clinton. and Slobid. He sold the company newable energy savings perfor - through college and earned a He is also a registered Profes - to Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (now mance contract in the United B.S.E.E. degree, driven by a love sional Engineer in Massachu - Aventis) and purchased oph - States. Ameresco also recently of mathematics and the sciences. setts. A committed outdoors - thalmic firm Muro Pharmaceu - announced the completion of a His parents arrived in the U.S. man, he has run in five Boston ticals in 1978. Behrakis sold his $21.1 million energy savings in 1969 and the family settled Marathons; Sakellaris also com - eye care products to Bausch and performance contract with the in Boston. He then worked at lo - petes in sailing, with his Mini- Lomb and searched for new City of Lowell, Mass., in addition cal utility New England Electri - Max boat Shockwave frequently products, including pharmaceu - to their start of construction on cal Systems (NEES), earning an placing in sailing regattas. He ticals for asthma and allergies. a 1.5 megawatt ground- M.B.A. and M.S.E.E. from North - lives in Milton, Mass., with his Behrakis sold the firm to Asta- mounted photovoltaic system at eastern University along the way. wife, Cathy, and children, Medica AG, a division of German Health study on smoking in the City’s capped-landfill site. Then, Sakellaris explains, “in Christina and Peter. and affordable housing proper - conglomerate Degussa, retiring Greece. He has also given to the Ameresco prides itself in go - 1979, while working for New ties in New York and New Jersey as president & CEO in 1998. academy of Athens to continue ing beyond just conservation to England Electric, NEES Manage - EFSTATHIOS as well as over 5 million square Behrakis is the son of Greek studying the effects of study. In address its customers’ entire en - ment wanted to establish a com - 10. (STEVE) feet of commercial property. He immigrants. He and his wife 2011, the 50-year-member of ergy system, including supply pany to promote energy effi - VALIOTIS is committed to investing and Margo have established chairs AHEPA was honored with the or - and demand, energy efficiency ciency to avoid the need to build $750 MIllION rEAl ESTATE improving communities by pro - and scholarships at various uni - ganization’s Archbishop Iakovos and renewable energy. new generation plants. They Efstathios Valiotis, 66, is pres - viding safe and well-maintained versities and medical centers. In Humanitarian Award in Orange, asked me to lead that initiative ident and founder of the Asto - residential and commercial de - 2003 Northeastern University Cοnn. and I welcomed the challenge.” ria-based Alma Realty Corpora - velopments. Valiotis established and Medical Center opened the Behrakis, a former president The subsidiary he launched tion, one of the largest real his construction company, Vor - Behrakis Health Science Build - of the Holy Trinity Greek Ortho - was called NEES Energy. Then estate firms in the New York donia Construction Corporation, ing and also created the Center dox Church in Lowell, Mass., is in 1990, Mr. Sakellaris pur - metropolitan area. He was born in 1988, which serves as the for Drug Discovery. a member of the Archdiocesan chased NEES Energy and it be - in Vordonia, Greece, near general contractor for the ma - A recipient of many awards Council’s Executive Committee, came the energy conservation Sparta, and immigrated to the jority of his projects. Vordonia for his contributions to business, and an Archon of the Ecumeni - company he re-named United States in 1972. He Contracting and Supplies Corp. science, the arts and the Greek cal Patriarchate. He is Chairman NORESCO. In 1997, he sold that worked in the food industry and, is another subsidiary of Alma. Orthodox Church, he sits on the Emeritus of Leadership 100. industry-leading independent within two years, purchased a In 1989, Valiotis, along with board of The Boston Symphony Behrakis also publishes the Hel - energy services company to Eq - newsstand and a food mart fol - several other investors, formed Orchestra and is emeritus chair - lenic Voice. He and his wife uitable Resources (EQT), a For - lowed by a pizzeria. His next Marathon National Bank. He man of Northeastern University. Margo have been married for 50 tune 500 company. Sakellaris venture was establishing a cus - served as chairman of the bank’s He has served on many boards years and have four children and continued to lead NORESCO tom-made furniture business, board of directors and as a mem - of both public and private com - nine grandchildren. and was appointed as a Senior Knossos Inc., in Astoria in 1976. ber for ten years. Marathon was panies. He is on the advisory www.thehellenicvoice.com Vice President of Equitable Re - Within two years, the business acquired by Piraeus National board of the Harvard School of sources. In January 2000, he left expanded to include two retail Bank of Greece in 1999. In 2007, Public Health. GEORGE EQT and three months later display stores on Manhattan’s he formed Alma Bank, in which Perhaps no institution has re - 10. SAKELLARIS founded Ameresco. Park Avenue and Sixth Avenue he is a majority shareholder. He ceived as much from Behrakis $750 MIllION ENErGY, Sakellaris has this to say Sakellaris is a Distinguished and a furniture-manufacturing serves as Chairman of the Advi - as the Boston Museum of Fine ENVIrONMENT about his sustainability business: Member Inductee of the Frances factory in Queens. Valiotis sory Board. The bank, created Arts. His relationship with the Born in Vassara in Laconia, “We have a sharp focus on our Crowe Society at the University owned and actively managed with the highest capital invest - museum dates back to his high Greece, George Sakellaris, 66, customers’ needs for compre - of Maine, which gave him the Knossos until 1994. ment in a New York State com - school days, when his uncle, heads one of the largest energy hensive energy efficiency ser - Edward T. Bryand Distinguished In 1978 he began his highly mercial bank, is rapidly expand - John Zaroulis, took him to see solutions companies in North vices and budget-neutral solu - Engineer Award in 2007. His successful career investing in ing, with ten branches and the galleries. Later, Behrakis America. His company tions, particularly in today’s awards include winning an Ernst real estate. Since then, Valiotis’ several more branches to come. would host parties at the Mu - Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), environment of aging infrastruc - & Young Entrepreneur of The expertise in acquisition and de - The bank started with $50 mil - seum. He became a member in which is based in Framingham, ture and budgetary constraints. Year 2011 New England award, velopment has included the pur - lion in capital and in four years 1989, a patron in 1996, and an Mass., specializes in providing As an entrepreneurial, technol - and most recently Business chase, sale, construction and has grown to $750 million in overseer in 1998. Then, one day energy efficiency, infrastructure ogy-agnostic company, Leader of the Year 2012 for management of both residential gross assets. in 2001, Behrakis showed up for upgrades, renewable energy, and Ameresco is in the best position Large Business by the Worcester and commercial properties. In Valiotis earned his degree in lunch with MFA Director Mal - energy information manage - to offer our customers the opti - Business Journal. 1983, Valiotis founded his own Theology from the University of colm Rogers and handed him a ment solutions. George Sakel - mum solutions to suit their re - Among his support for nu - firm, known as Alma Realty Cor - Athens. He is a major supporter sealed envelope. Inside was a laris, President and CEO as well quirements.” He continues, “Be - merous educational institutions poration. Alma serves as the ves - of the St. Demetrios Cathedral check for $2 million to endow as Chairman of the Board of Di - ing in the service business 'you in Massachusetts and Maine is sel through which Valiotis devel - and School in Astoria. Valiotis is Christine Kondoleon’s position rectors of Ameresco, founded are as good as your people.' We establishing an endowment at ops, builds, manages and a big benefactor too of the Holy as curator of Greek & Roman the company in 2000. Today it always strive to hire and retain UMass Lowell in memory of his acquires real estate. He has built Cross Greek Orthodox Church, Art. He has given $25 million to has 63 offices in 34 states and the best in our field.” mentor, the late Senator Paul a diverse portfolio over the last School and Community Center the museum since 2006 and the five Canadian provinces and em - The company’s revenues con - Tsongas. He is a member of the three decades including multi- in Whitestone; the church’s Efs - museum now has the new ploys more than 900 profession - tinued to climb in 2011. In No - Faith Endowment and Leader - family residential buildings, tathios and Stamatiki Valiotis George D. and Margo Behrakis als. “Green. Clean. Sustainable” vember, they announced that ship 100, an Archon of the Order commercial buildings, ground- Greek American School was Wing, which houses Greek, Ro - is the motto of the company that their total revenues for 2011, of St. Andrew and a major bene - up construction of residential named after him and his wife. man and Egyptian Galleries. increases energy efficiency for $728.2 million, were up 17.8 factor of his local church, Saint and commercial buildings and a Mr. Valiotis never forgot his In 2010, Mr. Behrakis gave a federal, state and local govern - percent over the previous year’s, Catherine Greek Orthodox retail shopping center. Alma Re - roots and hometown and he fi - $1.8 million grant to a Harvard ments, healthcare and educa - with a net income improvement Church. alty also owns and manages over University School of Public tional institutions, housing au - of 21 percent year-over-year. Sakellaris served as a found - 10,000 apartments of market Continued on page 16

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Continued from page 14 Toyota Motor Manufacturing, ident of Equity Dynamics and grants to support ethnic, disad - Verizon, and Xerox. Intensely Pappajohn Capital Resources, of vantaged, and/or minority stu - nanced and built a T.E.I. (tech - private, Payiavlas runs the com - which he is also sole proprietor. dents over the past 10 years. nical college) in his hometown pany as chairman of the board, Equity Dynamics is a financial In September 2009, the Des of Sparta, which also bears his while his son Anthony is Presi - consulting entity; Pappajohn Moines Pappajohn Sculpture name and currently enrolls dent and CEO and his daughter Capital Resources is a venture Park opened, featuring $40 mil - 2,000 students. A firm believer Patrice (Patsy) serves as Vice capital firm. Both are located in lion of the avid collector cou - in education, he supports vari - Chairman. Based in Warren, AVI Des Moines, Iowa. ple’s outdoor sculptures from ous educational institutions. He has more than 50 branch offices He serves as director on the their personal collection. In De - is married to Stamatiki in the Midwestern and Eastern boards of two publicly traded cember 2010 the Pappajohns Kousoulas and they have three United States, and makes $2 bil - companies: Conmed Healthcare pledged $26.4 million towards children, Sophia, Katerina, and lion in sales annually. The com - Management Inc., American a new University of Iowa bio - George, and one grandchild. pany expanded into Georgia in CareSource Inc., and CNS Re - medical research building. The www.almarealty.com, 2010, and broke ground on an sponse, Inc., a company which couple have gifted over $100 www.almabank.com 84-room hotel in California, Pa. uses EEG-generated biomarkers million in various philan - in 2011. In 2012, AVI introduced for use in personalized medicine thropies. JOHN Market C, a turn-key conve - in psychiatry. Mr. Pappajohn has He has demonstrated a great 11. PAYIAVLAS nience store offering fresh selec - served as Director in over 40 love for the fine arts: he was $650 MIllION FOOD tions 24 hours a day, accessed investigating Enron Corpora - public companies. named by Art News Magazine TED J. INDuSTrY through an account card. tion. In 2001, predicting the Pappajohn emigrated from as one of the top 200 collectors 13. LEONSIS John Payiavlas is chairman of Payiavlas and his wife company’s financial problems, Evia, Greece to the United in the world from 1997-2012. $590 MIllION INTErNET, AVI Foodsystems, the country’s Marissa were honored in 2006 he became Enron’s short seller. States when he was just nine He was appointed to the advi - VENTurE CAPITAl, largest independent, family- with the Cleveland Clinic’s Dis - By the time the Enron scandal months old. His father died sory board of the John F. PrOFESSIONAl SPOrTS owned and operated contract tinguished Fellow Award. In was public, Kynikos Associates when he was 16 years of age, Kennedy Center for the Perform - Ted J. Leonsis, 56, is vice food service company, providing 2000, he was inducted into the profited greatly. Financial mag - and he had to work to pay his ing Arts in Washington, D.C. by chairman emeritus of America vending, institutional dining and Business Hall of Fame of North - azine Barron’s mentioned his way through college. He gradu - Presidents Ronald Reagan and Online. Leonsis is also the coffee service operations. east Ohio's Inside Business Mag - early prediction of Enron’s fall ated from the University of George Bush. founder, chairman and majority Payiavlas, the son of Greek azine (ibmag.com). Payiavlas as “the market call of the Iowa’s College of Business Ad - He currently serves on the owner of Monumental Sports immigrants, traces his com - traces his origins to the island decade, if not the past fifty ministration in 1952. Through - National Committee of the Per - and Entertainment, formed in of Chios. He is a Life-Time Chair - years.” Later on, he successfully forming Arts for the Kennedy June 2010, as he merged his man of the Archbishop Iakovos predicted Sotheby’s stock drop– Center. He also serves as a mem - Lincoln Holdings LLC (including Leadership 100 Endowment it plummeted in November ber of the Trustees Council of the National Hockey League’s Fund and an Archon of the Ecu - 2007 from $57 to $10. In 2011, the National Gallery of Art as Washington Capitals, worth an menical Patriarchate. he began shorting computer well as serving on their Collec - estimated $225 million, up by www.avifoodsystems.com manufacturer Hewlett Packard, tors Committee (formerly Chair - $28 million over last year, and when it acquired British soft - man). He is a member of the the WNBA’s Washington Mys - JAMES S. ware company Autonomy. Since board of Trustees of the Hirsh - tics) and Washington Sports & 12. CHANOS that time, HP’s stock price has horn Museum in Washington, Entertainment Limited Partner - $600 MIllION INVESTMENT fallen 22.5 percent, and last D.C. and National Committee ship. To create the new com - James S. Chanos, 55, is the September HP announced it with the Whitney Museum in pany, Leonsis purchased the re - founder and president of would eliminate 29,000 jobs New York City, and Honorary Di - maining 56% of Washington Kynikos Associates, the world’s through the end of its 2014 fis - rector at the Des Moines Art Sports & Entertainment that he biggest short-selling hedge fund. cal year. Center. didn’t own, giving him full own - A second-generation Greek- In March 2006, Chanos cre - Pappajohn’s church activities ership over the National Basket - American, Chanos grew up in ated the Coalition of Private In - include the Greek Orthodox ball Association’s Washington Milwaukee, Wisc. His father vestment Companies, an orga - Archdiocese of America Arch - Wizards, the Verizon Center and owned a chain of dry cleaners nization aiming at promoting diocesan Council and former ex - the Baltimore-Washington Tick - in Milwaukee and his mother hedge funds in Washington. Re - ecutive committee, and Leader - etmaster franchise. Monumental pany’s beginning to purchasing worked as an office manager at cently, the lobbying group has out his career as a venture cap - ship 100 board of directors. He Sports and Entertainment also a few vending machines for the a steel company. He founded shifted its attention to Europe. italist, he has been an early received the title of Archon from operates Kettler Capitals Iceplex family’s Village Café in his Kynikos Associates (in Greek, He appears regularly in the investor in over 100 companies, the Ecumenical Patriarch of and George Mason University hometown of Warren, Ohio. kynikos means cynic) in 1985 American media giving financial most of which are dedicated to Constantinople in 2000. Patriot Center. Founded in 1960, AVI currently after a Wall Street career as a advices and predictions. He has biomedical and biotechnology Pappajohn is the recipient of After surviving an airplane employs thousands, serves mil - financial analyst with Paine long been considered a “media industries. many prestigious awards, in - crash landing in 1983, he lions of consumers daily, and Webber, Gilford Securities and operator” with a strong relation - He and his wife Mary have cluding the Horatio Alger Award drafted a list of 101 things to serves some of the most presti - Deutsche Bank. Jim Levitas, his ship with journalists that respect partnered in philanthropic en - (1995), the Ellis Island Medal do in life, and has completed 82 gious institutions in America, in - former boss, partnered with and promote his ideas. He con - deavors, which have provided of Honor (2000) and the of the tasks; his $1 billion net cluding industrial centers, cor - Chanos to launch Kynikos Asso - tinues to regularly declare that millions for scholarships, busi - Woodrow Wilson International worth aim may be realized in a porate headquarters complexes, ciates with $16 million. A year China’s economy will crash. ness opportunities and commu - Center Award for Corporate Cit - few years. (See the list at universities, school systems and later, Levitas, unable to endure Chanos is a graduate of Yale nity enhancements. His charita - izenship (2007). He is the first www.tedstake.com.) healthcare facilities throughout the stress of short selling, left University, where he studied ble donations include the John Iowan and the second Greek Few people have roots as the Midwestern and eastern the company. The company’s as - economics and political science. & Mary Pappajohn Clinical Can - American (Pete Peterson was deep in the computer industry, United States. Their clients in - sets under management are cur - He was divorced in 2006 and cer Center, and Pappajohn En - the first) to receive the or as much knowledge and ex - clude Carnegie Mellon Univer - rently $6 billion. Kynikos has of - lives in New York City with his trepreneurial Centers at five Woodrow Wilson Award. He has perience of its history and po - sity, Eastman Kodak, Good Year, fices in New York and London. four children. Iowa universities and colleges. received four honorary doctor - tential. A pioneer of the Internet Honda of America Manufactur - Chanos has a long history of To date, over 130,000 college ate degrees. and new media, Leonsis partic - ing, Kmart, Kraft Foods, Ohio making shrewd predictions hav - JOHN students have taken part in the Pappajohn lives in Des ipated in launches of the Apple State University, Phillips, Toyota ing identified several financial 12. PAPPAJOHN latter, which have sparked 4,400 Moines with his wife, Mary. MacIntosh, the IBM PC and the Motor Manufacturing, Univer - meltdowns such as Boston $600 MIllION VENTurE new businesses. The Pappajohn They have one daughter, Ann Wang office automation. He has sity of Pittsburgh Medical Cen - Chicken, Conesco and Tyco In - CAPITAlISM Scholarship Foundation has dis - Vassiliou. led four businesses that have ter, UPS, the U.S. Postal Service, ternational. In 2000 he started John Pappajohn, 84, is pres - tributed over $3.2 million in www.pappajohn.com grown at record rates: He built THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans 17

Wang WP (the first word proces - Merck, which was very prof - He has also carved out a involving harmful products, pro - sor) from a $200 million to a itable under his leadership. Dur - niche for himself as a major fessional malpractice, and per - $1 billion company with the ing his tenure there, Merck de - player in and fundraiser for the sonal injury. largest female management veloped the Democratic Party, and as a stan - His firm, the Law Offices of team in the country. He was cholesterol-lowering statins, dard bearer for Greek political Peter G. Angelos, has attorneys founder & CEO of Redgate Com - MEVACOR and ZOCOR. and cultural interests in Amer - and locations in Maryland, munications Corporation, con - Vagelos is sometimes called ica. The developer and his chil - Delaware, and Pennsylvania. sidered the first new media mar - the father of pharmacophilan - dren have raised and con - Angelos began working as a keting company. He built AOL thropy for his decision that tributed millions on national, criminal defense lawyer follow - into the first $1 billion interac - Merck provide the drug MECTI - state and local campaigns and ing graduation. For most of his tive services company and the ZAN free to cure millions of issues over the past decade. De - legal career, he was a successful world’s biggest media company, Africans of river blindness. His mocratic Presidential candidates attorney representing Baltimore helping to increase its member - charity work at the University aside, a few of the major recipi - labor unions and their members ship from fewer than 800,000 of Pennsylvania includes spon - ents include former California through his own private prac - to more than 8 million in a four- soring scholarship/study pro - Governor Gray Davis, U.S. Sen - tice, which he founded in 1961. year span (1994-97). He has grams as well as the Roy and ator Dianne Feinstein and House Beginning in the 1980s, he re - also boosted the Capitals’ atten - Diana Vagelos Laboratories. The Speaker Nancy Pelosi. fashioned his firm’s focus from dance and revenues. Diana Student Center, named Tsakopoulos is also dedicated to criminal law to civil class action Leonsis was born to a family research, rather than the prac - after Mrs. Vagelos at her alma lege. His former boxing team - advancing the careers of Greek- suits. His law firm and wealth of modest means in Brooklyn, tice of medicine. Vagelos, whose mater, Barnard College, opened mates say the elements of his American politicians, including expanded exponentially in and spent his early years there. parents were born in Asia Minor in 2010. Vagelos is currently larger-than-life persona were former California state treasurer 1982, when he represented His family moved back to his and immigrated to the U.S. in chairman of biotech company present even in the days when and once-gubernatorial candi - 8,500 plaintiffs – the largest mother’s hometown of Lowell, the 1920s, earned his bachelor’s Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He he was studying business, phi - date Phil Angelides. His daugh - number of plaintiffs ever -- in Mass. He graduated from Lowell degree with honors in 1950 is also chairman of Columbia losophy, and history under the ter, Eleni Tsakopoulos asbestos litigation and won. He High School in 1973 and at - from the University of Pennsyl - University Medical Center’s Americanized surname of Kounalakis, is currently U.S. reportedly made over $100 mil - tended Georgetown University. vania. He earned a medical de - Board of Advisors, and is chair - Chicos, a name he later dropped Ambassador to Hungary. lion on this one case. Angelos After graduating in 1977, he gree from Columbia University ing the center’s capital cam - to reclaim his family name. Tsakopoulos and his family have was also enormously successful moved back to his parents’ in 1954. After an internship and paign, which passed its target Tsakopoulos has since established Hellenic Studies in suing Wyeth, the makers of home in Lowell and began residency at Massachusetts Gen - of $1 billion by 2011. In 2010 climbed to prominence through chairs at several major Ameri - the diet pill fen-phen, and rep - working for Wang Laboratories. eral Hospital in Boston (1954- the couple contributed the lead uncommon business acumen can universities across the coun - resenting the state of Maryland In 1980, Leonsis started his own 56), he joined the National In - gift to Columbia University and sheer tenacity. He turns on try, Georgetown, Stanford and company, which grew quickly, stitutes of Health in Bethesda, Medical Center for a new Med - the charm with politicians, plays Columbia among them. and sold it to International Md. At NIH (1956-66), he ical and Graduate Education hardball with environmental Thompson for $60 million in served in the National Heart In - building. He is currently on the regulators, and promotes big PETER G. 1981. He then started Redgate, stitute, holding positions in cel - boards of the Donald Danforth ideas for the region. In recent 16. ANGELOS which he sold to AOL in 1993, lular physiology and biochem - Plant Science Center, the Na - years, he’s offered to donate $500 MIllION lAW, MAJOr commencing his relationship istry – first as senior surgeon, tional Math and Science Initia - farmland he controls in Placer lEAGuE BASEBAll with the once-pervasive AOL, and then as head of section of tive, and The Nature Conser - County for a private university, Peter G. Angelos, 83, is a trial completing his tenure as the au - Comparative Biochemistry. In vancy. Vagelos is married to the and to help fund its construction lawyer and the current chair - dience group’s president and 1966, Vagelos joined the Wash - former Diana Touliatos. They by developing adjacent acreage. man & CEO of Major League vice chairman before stepping ington University in St. Louis live in New Jersey and have four He has proposed that the region Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles. He down in 2006. He is also a part - School of Medicine as chairman children and nine grandchil - open thousands of acres of became owner of the Orioles in ner at Revolution Growth Fund, of its Biological Chemistry De - dren. ranchland he controls along the August 1993, leading a group vice president and member of partment where he founded the Sacramento-El Dorado County of investors, including promi - the board of Groupon, and division of Biology and Biomed - ANGELO K. line for development, using nent Marylanders like novelist founder/chairman of Snag - ical Sciences. 15. TSAKOPOULOS some of those proceeds to fund Tom Clancy, in purchasing the Films. The author of several books, $540 MIllION rEAl ESTATE a new arena for the NBA's team for $173 million, a record including an autobiography, Angelo K. Tsakopoulos, 76, Sacramento Kings. He also price at the time. P. ROY “Medicine, Science and Merck”, was born to a farming family in grows wine grapes in Borden According to Forbes, the Ori - 14 .VAGELOS, M.D. and more than 100 scientific pa - the village of Rizes, in Arcadia, Ranch and walnuts at an or - oles were worth $460 million in as lead attorney in a lawsuit $550 MIllION pers, he was elected to the Greece. His father, a butcher, chard outside Wheatland. 2012 (up from $411 million in against tobacco company Philip PHArMACEuTICAlS, American Academy of Arts & struggled to feed five children. In late 2010, his family pur - 2010). The Orioles enjoyed Morris. The agreement had stip - HEAlTHCArE Sciences and the National Acad - He first came to the United chased Conaway Ranch, a some success early under Ange - ulated that he would receive Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, 83, served emy of Sciences in 1972, and to States in August 1951, sailing 17,244 property of farming and los’ ownership, making the post - 25% of the recovery, but when as Chairman and CEO of phar - the American Philosophical So - past the Statue of Liberty on his ranching land as well as wet - season as a wild card team in it was $4.5 billion, Maryland re - maceutical giant Merck & Co. ciety in 1993. After retiring from 15th birthday. As a college stu - lands and water resources west 1996 and winning the American fused to pay; Angelos’ team set - from 1985 to 1994. He joined Merck, Vagelos was chairman of dent at Sacramento State Uni - of Sacramento. The Sacramento League East Division title in tled for $150 million. It was af - the worldwide health products the University of Pennsylvania’s versity, he waited tables at night Bee reported the family already 1997. But manager Davey John - ter that he became a major firm in 1975 as senior vice pres - Board of Trustees from 1994 to in the Tony Del Prado restaurant held 18,000 acres of farmland son resigned after the 1997 sea - player in the Baltimore commu - ident of research, and became 1999, having served as a trustee and sold real estate on week - and vineyards and 40,000 acres son, and 14 straight losing sea - nity. president of its research division since 1988. He was also presi - ends. He would eventually leave of cattle grazing land in North - sons ensued. In 2005, the His law office’s most recent in 1976; starting in 1982, he dent & CEO of the American Sac State a few credits shy of ern California. Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, massive victory was a July 1 ver - served as senior vice president School of Classical Studies in graduation to work full time. At Tsakopoulos’ older brother co-owned by the Orioles and the dict awarding $1.5 billion in of strategic planning. He con - Athens from 1999 to 2001, and 21 years of age, he had already George, who passed away in Washington Nationals, took off. damages to families and busi - tinued to hold both positions served on the National Research stockpiled experiences likely un - 2009, followed him to Sacra - As of early 2012, it had 6 mil - nesses whose water was conta - until 1984, when he was elected Council Committee on Science fathomable to many of his fel - mento, and also went into real lion subscribers. minated in 2006 by an Exxon executive vice president. & Technology for Countering low undergraduates: war, depri - estate. George’s family controls Angelos was born in Pitts - Mobil gas leak in Jacksonville, Before assuming broader re - Terrorism in 2002 and on the vation, emigration and stints as thousands of acres in the region. burgh on July 4, 1929. He came Md. sponsibilities of business lead - National Academy of Sciences, both a shoeshine boy in Chicago Angelo is founder of AKT Devel - to Baltimore at 11 years of age. A lifelong Democrat, he won ership, Vagelos had won scien - National Academy of Engineer - and a farmhand in Lodi. And he opment Corporation, now He is a graduate of Eastern Col - election to the Baltimore City tific recognition as an authority ing and Institute of Medicine had begun laying the ground - headed by his son, Kyriakos, lege and the University of Balti - Council, and served on the on lipids and enzymes, and as a Committee that published “Ris - work for his future, arguably be - which controls about 40,000 more School of Law, where he Council from 1959 to 1963. He research manager. This followed ing Above the Gathering Storm” coming the most significant acres of land in the region and was class valedictorian, and ran for mayor as an indepen - a decision early in his career to in 2005. Much of his wealth force to shape Sacramento since neighboring San Joaquin went onto a lucrative career in put his principal energies into came from stock options at John Sutter. He boxed in col - County. trial law, specializing in cases Continued on page 18

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Continued from page 17 created,” believes Nicholas G. of a farm outside of Philadel - throughout the United States. Karabots, 79, owner of Kappa phia, which led to other acqui - With 77 offices nationwide, the dent in 1964, but lost. He has Media Group, Inc. the nation’s sitions, primarily in Pennsylva - firm focuses on investment bro - been an active supporter of na - largest publisher of puzzle mag - nia and the subdivision of these kerage, and provides financing tional Democratic candidates. azines and books. other assets and eventually the and research services to both Locally, in 2006, he publicly sup - His parents, Konstantina Hri - design and development of Jeri - buyers and sellers. The com - ported the Republican incum - somalis and Georgios Karabot - cho National Golf Club, Inc. pany’s closing 4,302 transac - bent, Bob Ehrlich, for governor sios, hailed from the Pelopon - Karabots also owns Krasi, LLC tions in 2010 was the highest of of Maryland and criticizing De - nesian villages of Anavriti and the owner of Karamoor Wines, any commercial real estate bro - mocratic candidate (now Gov - Malantreni, respectively. The together with its vineyard and kerage firm. ernor) Martin J. O’Malley. An - family name was shortened winery. Together with his partner, gelos has been active in when his father arrived on Ellis Together with his wife of 58 William A. Millichap, Marcus charitable programs in the city Island. years, Athena Dikegoros launched a new business model and state. He is married, and Karabots was born in New Karabots, he established the nearly four decades years ago, has two sons. Angelos enjoys Jersey and raised in the South Karabots Foundation, Inc. as a based on matching each prop - horse racing, as an owner of Bronx, N.Y. and attended the result of his experiences as a erty with the largest pool of pre- thoroughbred horses. He has Greek American Institute. After youth in the South Bronx. The qualified investors. In 2010, given $10 million to his alma his father lost his restaurant foundation specializes in ex - Marcus & Millichap closed mater; in return the new law of Thermo Fischer Scientific business in the Wall Street Crash tion services, Kappa Publishing panding opportunities for young $13.6 billion in investment school building that is being (NYSE:TMO), which today is of 1929, Karabots subsequently Group, Inc., also publishes people in inner city or otherwise transactions for private and in - constructed will bear the name worth over $26 billion. in 1942 held his first job at age wrestling, astrology, games, and underserved communities. He stitutional investors. Included in of his parents. The now-under His training began in Greece 9 as a shoeshine boy in Manhat - other specialty magazines. Its told TNH in 2009: “My heart these transactions were shop - construction John and Frances at the National Polytechnic In - tan’s Union Square. After grad - affiliated companies offer com - beats for the small children who ping centers, office and indus - Angelos Law Center at the Uni - stitute in Athens. He received uating high school in 1951, he mercial and digital printing and are tied to poverty and don’t trial buildings, apartment prop - versity of Baltimore is due to his bachelor’s (1949), master’s entered the printing industry, distribution services while know that there is something open in 2013. (1950) and doctorate (1956), learning the ropes at an RCA af - Kappa Map Group creates and out there that is better.” Just last Angelos and his wife have at the Massachusetts Institute of filiate on Wall Street before be - distributes both various map fall, the Karabots gave $7.5 mil - two sons, John and Louis. Technology, all in mechanical coming a manager of printing products. Kappa Books Publish - lion to The Children’s Hospital www.angeloslaw.com, engineering. Dr. Hatsopoulos operations elsewhere and even - ers LLC, another affiliated com - of Philadelphia for a new pedi - www.masnsports.com, has testified at numerous con - tually a sales and management pany, is a specialty publisher atric care facility which was www.baltimore.orioles.mlb.com gressional hearings on national position, offered by a Hel - and marketer of children’s ac - dedicated and opened in Febru - energy policy and capital forma - lenophile from Austria, who was tivity books. ary of this year, and $10 million GEORGE N. tion, and has served on many the owner of Polychrome, a The group’s roots were in to The Franklin Institute mu - 17. HATSOPOULOS national committees on energy manufacturer of printing sup - Karabots’ purchase of the Scran - seum to expand its classrooms , PH.D conservation, environmental plies. In 1964, he launched – ton Lithographing Company in and exhibition capabilities. To $450 MIllION THErMIONIC protection and international ex - with a partner – the company 1970, which became Kappa date the foundation has pro - TECHNOlOGY change. He is also noted for his Phota Inc., which manufactured Graphics, and the establishment vided over $50 million to many Dr. George N. Hatsopoulos, and Joseph Keenan’s famous photographic chemicals specific of a relationship with puzzle such organizations that focus on 85, was awarded at the Novem - textbook, “Principles of General to the development of X Ray book publisher Official Publica - the Foundation’s mission. ber 2009 Boston History & In - Thermodynamics.” film and assisted in the devel - tions, which Karabots acquired. Nicholas and Athena Karabots novation Awards for “half a cen - In 1996, Hatsopoulos won opment and importation to the Kappa acquired several other have also supported the Univer - tury of innovations in the John Fritz Medal, the high - United States of Fuji film. In publishing companies over the sity of Pennsylvania and cur - environmental quality, health est American award in the en - 1970 he acquired a printing years and in turn Karabots rently the University of Arizona and safety technologies.” gineering profession. In 2007, company in Scranton, Pa. and founded, in 1990, the Spartan in their archaeological excava - erties, hotels/motels, seniors The Greek-born scientist he was one of the nine promi - expanded it via the printing and Organization, Inc., which pro - tions on Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia, housing, manufactured home wanted to change the way the nent Greek-Americans who binding of TV Guide among vides management and legal Greece. communities, and land. world makes electricity. He and were selected by President Car - other nationally-known maga - services to the various Karabots He and wife live in Pennsyl - Marcus is also chairman of his brother John founded olos Papoulias to be honored zines. That company, today affiliates. In turn, it led to the vania and have three daughters Essex Property Trust, a publicly Thermo Electron in 1956 (with with the Hellenic Republic’s known as Kappa Graphics, LP, further diversification of his var - and 10 grandchildren. held, multi-family real estate in - a $50,000 loan from a Greek prestigious Commander of the celebrates 43 successful years ious business interests. www.amrepcorp.com, vestment trust (REIT). Located shipowner). Thermo Electron Order of Honor award. Until his under Karabots’ ownership and From 1993 to 2013, he was www.kappapublishing.com, in Palo Alto, California and grew into an international com - retirement in April 2012, Hat - 106 years since its founding. director of Amrep Corporation www.modernpublishing.com, traded on the New York Stock pany recognized as a global sopoulos was the chairman of Today he is Chairman of the (AXR/NYSE), whose interests www.bendonpub.com, Exchange, Essex is a fully inte - leader in environmental moni - American DG Energy Inc. Board of Directors and Chief Ex - rest in the real estate and me - www.jerichonational.biz, grated REIT which acquires, de - toring and analysis instruments, (ADGE), the leading on-site util - ecutive Officer of Kappa Media dia-related industries such as www.karamoorwines.com, velops and redevelops apart - and a major producer of paper- ity he formed with his brother Group, Inc., and holds similar product and subscription fulfill - www.lykaionexcavation.org ment communities in select recycling equipment, biomedical in 2001 offering electricity, heat, positions in his other privately- ment combined with newsstand West Coast communities. The products, alternative-energy sys - hot water and cooling to com - held companies involved with, distribution services. Karabots GEORGE M. company, according to its web - tems and other products and mercial, institutional and indus - printing, publishing, product recently resigned from his posi - 17. MARCUS site, currently has ownership in - services related to environmen - trial customers. The company, fulfillment, land development, tion as Vice Chairman of the $450 MIllION rEAl ESTATE terests in 140 apartment com - tal quality, health and safety. By whose stocks were valued re - the country club business and Board of AMREP in order to de - George M. Marcus, 70, is munities. Marcus is also one of 1981, it was ranked 739th cently at $103.5 million special - winemaking and is assisted by vote more time to his pending founder and chairman of Mar - the original founders of Plaza among Fortune’s 1,000 largest izes in green energy and carbon his daughters Andrea, Despina, acquisitions in the private sector cus & Millichap Real Estate In - Commerce Bank and Greater industrial firms. By the time it reducing solutions. Constance and Constance’s hus - but retains his significant share - vestment Services, one of the Bay Bancorp. Marcus served on merged with Fisher Scientific in www.americandg.com band Paul. Andrea’s husband holder interests in AMREP. Am - country’s premier providers of Greater Bay’s board of directors November 2006, Thermo Elec - Michael is President of Kable rep has developed Rio Rancho, investment real estate brokerage until it was sold to Wells-Fargo tron was seeing annual revenues NICHOLAS G. Media and Palm Coast Data sub - New Mexico’s third-largest city. services, and the parent com - in 2007 for $1.5 billion. of over $2 billion, and employed 17. KARABOTS sidiaries of AMREP Corporation, There are about 1,800 peo - pany of a diversified group of Marcus came to San Fran - 11,000 people in 30 countries. $450 MIllION PuBlISHING, a publicly-held company in ple employed by Amrep and real estate, service, investment cisco from Greece at the age of Hatsopoulos’ work led to rapid rEAl ESTATE which Karabots is a controlling Karabots’ private companies and development firms. It has four. He completed his under - advances in thermionic power “The issue here is not ulti - shareholder. combined. established itself as a leading graduate studies in Economics conversion. He retired in 1999, mately your net worth, but what Apart from its huge gamut of Karabots’ real estate interests real estate firm with more than at San Francisco State Univer - but remains chairman emeritus you do with the value you have puzzle magazines and subscrip - began with a purchase, in 1980, 1,200 brokers in markets sity in just two and a half years,

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Such monumen - Inc. since 1999, having joined Washington Life Magazine named SFSU Alumnus of the tal, environmentally-friendly the company in 1992. set his estimated net worth at year in 1989 and one of its 11 disposal sites have also been an At NEA, he has led invest - between $300-$500 million in Distinguished Centennial economic boon to the areas in ments in over 25 companies that 2007. Alumni in 1999. He and his wife which they function. Okee - have gone public or had success - At NEA Barris took telecom Judy helped create SFSU’s In - chobee County receives millions ful acquisitions. He has graced company $570-million company ternational Center for the Arts of dollars in royalties from its the Forbes Midas list of top tech - Neutral Tandem public in 2007 with a $3 million gift. Marcus landfill each year, boosting the nology investors since 2007, and $590-million Echo Global also helped develop SFSU’s local government’s ability to fi - and was listed at #23 in 2012. public in 2009. He is involved Greek Studies program, and nance schools and roads, as well NEA invested $14.8 million in with NEA affiliates including chairs its Modern Greek Studies as improve police and firefight - Groupon early on, and received satellite operator ProtoStar, TV Foundation, which supports the ing services. $70 million back last year -- but software/hardware company Nikos Kazantzakis Chair for to protect groundwater supplies. Rangos also founded U.S. earned on paper over a billion, Hillcrest, recently-gone-public clients on a regular, recurring Modern Greek Studies. Rangos’ many innovative Utilities in the mid-1960’s. A as they own 13.7% of the cur - Goji Food Solutions, online job outsourced basis. It monitors He is also a graduate of the achievements include convert - precursor to Chambers Devel - rently $9 billion company. In recruitment site JobFox, infor - daily such historic bridges as the Harvard Business School’s Own - ing power plant boiler ash into opment, USU was part of a con - 2011, Groupon became public, mation technology company Ben Franklin bridge in Philadel - ers/Presidents Management a useful component of cinder glomerate, which eventually be - reaping one of the greatest ven - MediaBank, digital distribution phia Pa., the Severn bridge con - Program and the Georgetown blocks and anti-skid material for came part of Chambers. USU ture returns ever with an initial company SnagFilms, and social necting England and Wales, the University Leadership Program. highways. He also played an in - subcontracted with Stone & public offering value of $12.8 media management company Bay Bridge in San Francisco, Among Mr. Marcus’ professional strumental role in inventing Webster (now part of the Shaw billion. Sprout Social. He is on the platforms and oil rigs in places memberships are the Board of techniques for recycling bitumi - Group), a major engineering Under his leadership, accord - board of directors of public com - including the North Sea, U.S.- Regents of the University of Cal - nous byproducts and disposing services firm, to help build ing to the NEA website, the panies including Groupon based nuclear power plants, and ifornia, the Real Estate Round- sewage and sludge. He devel - atomic energy plants. company’s assets under man - (GRPN), Goji Food Solutions other industrial plant facilities table and the Policy Advisory oped methods for liquid indus - Together with his partner Ian agement have grown more than Ltd., Benchprep, Hillcrest Labo - in countries all over the world Board of the University of Cali - trial waste disposal, and created McLennan, a respected FBI ten-fold to over $13 billion. The ratories, Inc., MediaOcean, daily, through the help of inter - fornia in Berkeley’s Center for a resource recovery system that agent, Rangos cofounded Secu - company with offices in Mary - SnagFilms, and Sprout Social. net based online monitoring Real Estate & Urban Economics. converts waste-generated rity Bureau Inc., one of the most He is also on the Initiative technologies based on satellites www.marcusmillichap.com methane into energy. prominent security companies for Sustainability and Energy at and other links. International Together with his sons, Alex in the country, in the mid- Northwestern Steering Commit - clients are in the fields of oil and JOHN G. and John Jr., Rangos advocated 1970’s. SBI guarded everything tee. At Dartmouth he is on the gas, fossil and nuclear power, 18. RANGOS SR. standards for regional sanitation from banks to shopping centers board of the Tuck School Private public infrastructure, chemicals, $425 MIllION, sites that resolved many envi - to industrial and atomic energy Equity and Entrepreneur Center aerospace and defense, trans - ENVIrONMENTAl ronmental concerns nationwide. plants. It grew into a company and launched the Barris Incuba - portation, primary metals and MANAGEMENT They initiated present-day envi - with a license in every state in tor at Tuck, which is aimed to metalworking, pharmaceuticals John G. Rangos, Sr., 83, ronmental protection standards the Union, and was eventually encourage student startups. He and food processing. Among made his fortune through the decades ago, to include the de - sold for more than $40 million. previously served on the Execu - them are American Electric transportation, disposal, and sign and strict enforcement of Rangos has three children tive Committee of the Board of Power Inc., Bayer AG, BP, Bech - management of industrial federal laws forbidding corrupt and three grandchildren. He the National Venture Capital As - tel Corp., General Electric Co., wastes, as well as security ser - practices like the transportation founded and directs the John G. sociation and was also a found - Boeing Co., Excelon, ExxonMo - vices. of illegal waste. Across the East - Rangos Sr. Family Charitable ing member of Venture Philan - bil, Shell, and Valero Energy Co. Born in Steubenville, Oh., he ern Seaboard and into the Mid - Trust. Rangos is also the former thropy Partners, a philanthropic The Mistras Group combines in - grew up during the Depression west, they built the largest, most president and founder of the organization in the Washington, dustry-leading products and in northern West Virginia and sophisticated land disposal fa - Congressional Medal of Honor D.C. area. technologies, expertise in me - Fredericksburg, Va. An educa - cilities in the industry - includ - Foundation, and the founder A member of Leadership 100 chanical integrity (MI) and non- tion at the Houston School of ing double-composite-lined and former chairman for the In - and an Archon of the Order of destructive testing (NDT) ser - Business was interrupted when HDPE (high-density polyethyl - ternational Orthodox Christian land and California’s Silicon Val - St. Andrew, he and wife Adri - vices and proprietary data he joined the Active Force Re - ene) facilities to protect ground Charities. He sits on numerous ley now has branches in India, enne Barris are based in analysis software to offer cus - serve unit in Pittsburgh, PA. His water - long before other waste boards, and the Rangos Foun - China – and most recently -- McLean, Va. and have two tomized solutions, ranging from served in the Army from 1951- management companies dation supports medical re - New York City. NEA, founded 35 daughters. routine inspections to complex, 54, including serving on a com - emerged. search at Children's Hospital of years ago, has seen 165 portfo - www.nea.com plant-wide asset integrity assess - bat signal team in the Far East In October 1991, Chambers Pittsburgh, one of the world's lio companies going public and ments and management. The with numerous distinctions. Development owned and oper - finest pediatric care centers, and 265 acquisitions. SOTIRIOS company works to extend the He began his career with ated a number of regional land - Johns Hopkins University Barris grew up in Chicago. 20. VAHAVIOLOS useful life of their assets, in - Rockwell Manufacturing Com - fills, worth a reported market School of Medicine, where he His father James was an engi - $360 MIllION ASSET crease productivity, minimize re - pany in Pittsburgh, where he value of $1.7 billion. Chambers established an innovative new neer – and his grandparents PrOTECTION SOluTIONS pair costs, comply with govern - earned the distinction of becom - went public and, in 1995, was program which invites the were from Greece. He earned Dr. Sotirios J. Vahaviolos, 65, mental safety and ing the youngest general agent merged with USA Waste, then brightest young minds at Johns an MBA from Dartmouth Col - is the Founder, Chairman, and environmental regulations, in company history. Rangos the country’s second largest Hopkins to find a cure to lege after studying electrical en - CEO of Mistras Group, the New manage risk and avoid cata - formed several companies in the waste management company. metastatic cancer. The Rangos gineering at Northwestern. Jersey-based global provider of strophic disasters. Vahaviolos 1960’s, and pioneered techno - Rangos served as vice chairman Foundation also supports pro - He started his career in vari - technology-enabled asset pro - notes that the company is “seek - logical advances in the trans - of USA Waste, during which grams at Duquesne and ous management positions at tection solutions used to evalu - ing more acquisitions and better portation and disposal of indus - time Waste Management Inc., Carnegie Mellon. General Electric Company. In an ate the structural integrity, expansion abroad.” trial waste. Rangos founded the country’s largest trash interview with Forbes, he safety and efficiency of critical MISTRAS ended fiscal year Chambers Development Inc. in hauler, acquired USA Waste. PETER J. counted his first bosses, while energy, industrial and public in - 2012 at $436.9 million, up from 1971, a firm that provided That merger in 1998 continues 19. BARRIS at General Electric, Greg Lie - frastructure. $338.6 the previous year for a waste treatment services; devel - to be a tremendous success. $400 MIllION VENTurE mandt and Jack Welch as having With more than 90 offices revenue growth of 29 percent. oped commercial recycling pro - The massive Okeechobee, CAPITAl “the most profound impact” on and 4,30 employees in 15 coun - At press time, the stock shares grams; and broke ground with Fla. landfill (approved in 1993, Peter J. Barris, 59, is a ven - his career. 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Continued from page 19 of unprecedented mergers and ployment and over 10 million multi-billion-dollar company acquisitions that ensued, they deadweight tons. It’s a position Salesforce.com, which provides had reached $20.61, a big in - formed Citigroup, then the she’s held since 2005. The software to businesses of all crease from the $12.50 price largest financial services con - NYSE-listed company’s market sizes and industries worldwide. when the stock first went public glomerate in the world. Weill capitalization is currently about He served on the board of direc - Since going public in the NYSE was the one who made the $380.53 million; its enterprise tors of Intuit, Inc. from 2001 to in October 2009 deals, but Dimon was the “whiz value is $1.64 billion. The com - 2010, as well as the company Vahaviolos, who was born in kid” who made the numbers pany maintains offices in New Juniper Networks. 1946 in historic Mistras, in the work. Dimon left Citigroup in York, as well as Greece, Uruguay Sclavos earned his bachelor’s Peloponnese, as a child ripped November 1998 due to an inter - and Belgium. Frangou is also the degree in Electrical & Computer apart electrical machinery and nal conflict with Mr. Weill. Chairman and Chief Executive Engineering from the University rebuilt it for fun – as well as for He serves on the boards of Officer of Navios Maritime Part - of California in Davis. From Oc - better safety in the newly-elec - directors of the Federal Reserve ners, L.P. (NYSE: NMM) and tober 1993 to June 1995, he was trified village. He came to Bank of New York, the Clearing Navios Maritime Acquisition vice president of worldwide United States to study engineer - House, the United Negro College Corporation (NYSE: NNA). marketing & sales for Taligent ing at Fairleigh Dickinson Uni - Fund and Harvard Business Named one of Fortune Mag - Inc., a software development versity in New Jersey, where he School. He serves on the execu - azine’s Top 50 Most Powerful company which was a joint ven - graduated first in his Science tive committee of the Business Women in Business Global List ture among Apple Computer, and Engineering class and went Council, Business Roundtable perial Trading in 1916, a whole - in 2011, shipping is in her blood. roles include chairman & CEO IBM and Hewlett-Packard. He on, as a recipient of The Bell and the Partnership for New sale grocery distribution com - Frangou’s father, Capt. Nikolaos of Compaq Computer Corpora - joined VeriSign in July 1995 as Laboratories Graduate Study York City, and is a member of pany founded by John Georges’ Frangos, has been running ma - tion between 1999 and 2001. one of its first employees. Since Scholarship Program, to earn the Financial Services Forum, Fi - grandfather Gus Pelias. The jor Greek shipping company, Following Hewlett-Packard’s ac - joining VeriSign, he helped es - MS and PhD degrees in electrical nancial Services Roundtable and company is now the eighth Good Faith, for more than 40 quisition of Compaq, he stayed tablish the company as a global engineering from Columbia Uni - Council on Foreign Relations. He largest convenience store sup - years. By the end of the ‘90s, on as president of HP for six corporation used by millions of versity. He was also awarded a is married to Judith Kent, with plier in the nation. Frangos’ company was the months to ease the integration consumers and businesses daily master’s degree in philosophy. whom he has three daughters. John Georges started out in largest company in terms of of the two companies. He then as they interact on the world’s He started his career at Ameri - www.jpmorganchase.com the family business at a young Greek-owned vessels. While re - left HP to become chairman & voice and data networks. can Telephone & Telegraph's Bell age, sweeping warehouse floors ceiving the Aristeon Award from CEO of MCI WorldCom between Sclavos led the company Laboratories, where the concept NICHOLAS at age 11 and making deliveries the Hellenic American Women’s 2002 and 2006, presiding over through a decade of robust of acoustic emissions was devel - 22. GALAKATOS, by age 15. His father Dennis Council in November 2009, the eventual Verizon-MCI growth and technological inno - oped in the late 1940s. When PH.D Georges immigrated to the U.S., Frangou said of her father, “He merger. He had joined World - vation. His last years with Vahaviolos joined the company $350 MIllION BIOMEDICAl after serving in the Greek Resis - taught me that ingenuity and Com, which was in bankruptcy, VeriSign were taken up with in - in the 1970s, he worked out TECHNOlOGY tance from a young age during healthy skepticism of conven - to help it overcome a massive vestigations into the company’s computerized solutions to the Dr. Nicholas Galakatos, 55, World War II and the Royal tional wisdom are the building accounting scandal. After the stock option program, but it is long-standing problem of how has been Managing Director of Greek Air Force. blocks of success.” transfer to Verizon was com - not believed that Sclavos per - to filter out irrelevant back - Clarus Ventures since the Cam - John Georges completing his Prior to taking on her current pleted, Capellas received a $40 sonally benefited from the op - ground noise during acoustic- bridge, Mass.-based firm’s incep - studies at Tulane University in role, Frangou received a bache - million severance package. tion grants in question, though emission testing, thus making tion in 2005. Clarus Ventures is 1983, turning his attention to lor's degree in mechanical engi - A 30-year veteran of the IT it did occur under his watch. the technology useable to detect a life sciences venture capital Imperial Trading, expanding its neering from Fairleigh Dickinson industry, he took charge of First Sclavos was born to second- in real time imperfections, firm founded by a team of “ac - sales from $29 million to $1 bil - University (summa cum laude) Data shortly after Kohlberg generation Greek American par - cracks, and growing corrosion complished investment profes - lion today, with 4,000 retailers and a master's degree in me - Kravis Roberts acquired the ents in San Francisco, Ca. He in materials and structures. sionals with extensive and com - in nine states. Recent acquisi - credit card giant for $29 billion still lives in California with his Vahaviolos has written over plementary industry tions by Georges Enterprises in - in April 2007. In 1992, First wife Jody and their two chil - 100 technical papers and three backgrounds which have en - clude, in September 2011, the Data spun off from American Ex - dren. His investments include books, amassed numerous abled them to establish a long $50 million food distributor Clif - press. It handles e-commerce co-owning upscale Dio Deka patents and many honors and history of success in creating ford D. Fite Company, $100 mil - processing services, including restaurant. A lifelong Bay Area awards over the years, and be - value,” according to its website, lion Union Grocery in 2010 and merchant and bank transactions, resident, he formed the Sclavos longs to various professional and which also reports $1.2 billion the multi-million Harrison Com - credit, retail and debit card is - Family Foundation to support scientific organizations, includ - of assets under its management pany in 2008. Georges Enter - suing and processing. It also pro - charitable efforts in children’s ing the American Society for “across two life sciences dedi - prises’ CEO said in a related vides money orders and paper education and medical research. Non Destructive Testing, for cated funds.” press release: “We are looking check processing. Forbes ranked He likes to play basketball and which he has served as presi - Galakatos has over two to make more acquisitions in the FDC 24th this past October holds an ownership stake in Sil - dent, and the International decades of industry and invest - food distribution sector. among the country’s largest pri - icon Valley Sports & Entertain - Committee for Nondestructive ment experience in the health - In 2006, Imperial Vending vate companies, with its 2010 ment (SVSE), the parent com - Testing (ICNDT), which collab - care sector. From 1997 to 2000, merged with Whitener Snacks revenues at $10.38 billion. pany of the San Jose Sharks orates with the United Nations. to become Refreshment Solu - Capellas says he inherited his hockey team. In June 2002, he A former president of ICNDT, he tions, a Georges Enterprises sub - gritty determination from his fa - was honored with the Ernst & is a Life Honorary Member of its sidiary. Georges Enterprises’ ther, a Greek citizen who fought Young Northern California En - board. (NDT is the testing of ma - AMA Distributors specialize in with the Greek Army against the trepreneur of the Year Award. terials without interfering with entertainment from videogames Germans in Italy during World He was also honored with the their make-up and encompasses and pool tables to jukeboxes. chanical engineering from Co - War II. After the War, the elder 2001 Morgan Stanley Morgan a broad range of scientific disci - Georges Enterprises’ portfolio of lumbia University. From 1987 to Capellas met and married his Leadership Award for Global plines.) He was recently elected real estate holdings; among 1989, she was an analyst on the wife Juliet in Italy. The family Commerce; named to Forbes’ a Life Fellow of the Institute of them are 25 acres of industrial trading floor of Republic Na - then immigrated to Ohio, where Top 50 CEO’s list; and served Electrical and Electronic Engi - real estate in the greater New tional Bank of New York. Capellas’ father worked his way alongside 30 technology experts neers and was honored at the Orleans area, including the site From 1990 until October up from laborer to superinten - on former President George W. March 10 AHI Hellenic Heritage once occupied by Louisiana Film 2001, Frangou was the chief ex - dent at the Republic Steel Cor - Bush’s National Security Achievement. Studios. ecutive officer of Franser Ship - poration, where he worked for Telecommunications Advisory Vahaviolos is married to As - Georges Enterprises was pre - ping S.A., a company in Piraeus, 30 years. Capellas developed an Committee. pasia Nessas Vahaviolos, with viously very involved with ma - Greece. In 2004, she served as interest in computers as an un - whom he has three daughters: rine services. However, as Chairman, Chief Executive Offi - dergraduate at Kent State Uni - CHRIS & Athanasia Vahaviolos, who runs Georges confirmed to the TNH cer, and President of Interna - versity. Shortly after he gradu - 26. HARRIS PAPPAS the Greek Mistras HELLAS immediately after the BP Oil tional Shipping Enterprises, until ated, he met his wife, Marie $200 MIllION FOOD ABEE-Envirocoustics company Spill, in January 2010, Georges ISE's acquisition of and merger Angelillo, a former nurse. The SErVICE serving the Balkans and Eastern he was vice president of New Enterprises sold its fleet of off - into Navios Holdings in 2005. two married in 1979, and trav - Brothers Christopher J., 64, Mediterranean countries, Business at Millennium Pharma - shore tugs under Dolphin Ma - Frangou was also a member of eled the world for two decades and Harris Pappas, 66, today Stephanie-Athena Folgia, Mis - ceuticals, a leading biopharma - rine International Company to the board of directors of Empo - as Capellas’ business reputation lead privately-owned Pappas tras’ Benefits Manager, and ceuticals company purchased by concentrate on its food distribu - riki Bank of Greece, the second grew. He was a senior vice pres - Restaurants, Inc., a company op - Kristy Vahaviolos-Kyriakopoulos. the Takeda Oncology Company tion business. The family of his largest retail bank in Greece, ident of Oracle Corporation in erating over 90 restaurants in www.mistrasgroup.com for $8.8 billion in May 2008, wife, the former Dathel Cole - from April 2004 to July 2005. 1997-98. He is credited, in his seven states. Chris Pappas is the and a member of its manage - man, owns cleanup company Oil Frangou is the Chairman of the work with Compaq, with mak - company’s CEO. His brother is JAMES ment team. During that time Mop OMI. board of directors of IRF Euro - ing it Microsoft’s key strategic its president. The Nation’s 21. DIMON Galakatos cofounded Millen - Georges purchased the 105- pean Finance Investments Ltd., partner for the release of its $355 MIllION COrPOrATE nium Predictive Medicine and year old French/Creole restau - listed on the AIM of the London Windows 2000 operating sys - ADMINISTrATION TransForm Pharmaceuticals, rant Galatoire for perhaps $11 Stock Exchange. She was also tem. In December 2006, Capel - Jamie Dimon, 56, is chair - where he was chairman. Prior million a couple of years ago, Chairman of the board of direc - las was appointed acting CEO of man & CEO of JPMorgan Chase, to his stint at Millennium, he with a major construction un - tors of Proton Bank, based in Serena Software, selected by Sil - one of the country’s largest was an associate at Venrock As - derway for it to return at a new Athens, from June 2006 until ver Lake, which took Serena pri - banks. Currently ranked 12th sociates focusing on early stage location in Baton Rouge by September 2008. She is Vice vate in March 2006. among Forbes highest paid biotechnology investments. Be - Christmas 2012. The menu spe - Chairman of the Mediterranean Capellas and his wife have CEO’s, and 34th on its list of the fore Venrock, he was head of cializes in seafood, especially lo - Committee of the China Classi - two children. He likes golf and World’s Most Powerful People, Molecular Biology Research at cal specialties like shrimp and fication Society and is a member rock and roll. He is also actively Forbes lists his five-year com - Novartis. soft-shelled crabs. of the Hellenic and Black Sea involved in community and pensation at $140.92 million Born in Athens and raised in Georges is very involved with Committee of Bureau Veritas as charitable work. In 2002, he be - and stock ownership at $223.4 Thessaloniki, where he studied both Louisiana public life and well as a member of the Greek came the first recipient of the million. Despite the company’s at Anatolia College. Galakatos the community of The Greek Or - Committee of Nippon Kaiji Hope Technology Award from highly-publicized $6 billion loss earned his doctorate in Organic thodox Cathedral of the Holy Kyokai. the Center for Missing & Ex - last year, Dimon has managed Chemistry from MIT before post- Trinity, and was notable in post- “Shipping is in Greece what ploited Children. He is a mem - to keep JPMorgan well ahead of doctoral studies at Harvard Hurricane Katrina both at the Wall Street is in New York,” she ber of the Board of Governors the curve since taking the helm Medical School. Until December University of New Orleans, as said in a recent video that em - of the Boys & Girls Clubs of 31, 2009, he was the lead direc - well as his own, and local phasizes the continued impor - America. Capellas previously tor of Affymax, a bio-pharma - churches. The former Church tance of the shipping sector in served as a member of the Amer - ceutical company creating novel President and Greek Community Greece on the This is Greece ini - ican University Board of drugs for patients suffering from President hosted Ecumenical Pa - tiative website. Trustees, and is recognized as a kidney disease. After Affymax triarch Bartholomew, when he Frangou has received numer - global thought leader in the went public in 2006, Galakatos visited New Orleans in October ous awards, including the Dry technology industry. He recently raised $660 million for the com - 2009. Cargo Company of the Year served as co-chair of the pany in 2008, though the com - A notable campaign financer, Award in 2009 and the News - CLOUD² Commission, including pany’s stocks have dropped. Georges spent millions to unsuc - maker of the Year award by specialists who offered the Still, Galakatos “made out well cessfully run himself for gover - Lloyd’s List in 2009. She was Obama government recommen - with 2007 sale of Hypnion to Eli nor twice, first as an indepen - named the Connecticut Mar - dations on cloud computing Lilly for $315 million,” Forbes dent candidate in post-Katrina itime Association Commodore policies. reported. The over $500-million in 2007, and again, as a Demo - for the year 2011. She has de - www.vce.com pharmaceuticals company AVEO, crat, in 2010. Undeterred, he is veloped a reputation as an im - another investment, went public now eyeing the 2015 race. pressive investor and philan - STRATTON last year too. Hypnion, where He is a member of Tulane thropist. 25. SCLAVOS Galakatos was also lead director, University’s President's Council. www.navios.com $225 MIllION COMPuTErS, was engaged in the discovery Georges is a foundation member CEllulAr TECHNOlOGY and development of therapeutic of the University of New Orleans MICHAEL D. Stratton Sclavos, 51, was in 2006. He earned according to drugs to treat disorders of the and LSU Medical. He is on the 24. CAPELLAS chairman, president, & chief ex - Restaurant News placed the CNNMoney $23 million in 2011. central nervous system, particu - World Trade Center Board of Di - $300 MIllION COrPOrATE company #70 in its listing of Even when all the country’s ma - larly sleep and wake-alertness rectors, New Orleans Business ADMINISTrATION Top 100 companies in 2010 jor banks – e.g., Bank of America disorders and circadian rhythm Council, Jefferson Business Michael D. Capellas, 58, was (based on 2009 figures), with and Citigroup – were barely abnormalities. Council, New Orleans Chamber Chairman & CEO of First Data $480 million, when it came to managing to stay afloat, the $2 He is also director of cancer of Council Board of Director. He Corporation (FDC), the world’s U.S. Food service Revenue fig - trillion-in-assets bank thrived re - therapy company Portola. He has also chaired and been vice leading payment processing ures. On that listing, the com - cently, earning Dimon the re - and his wife, Alice, have two president of the Western Region company, from 2007 to 2010. pany’s revenue growth rate was spect of his peers. He has been sons. Galakatos is a member of of the Young Presidents Organi - He is now Chairman and CEO 50 percent. Since 2001, the two on Time magazine’s list of 100 the Director’s Council of the zation. He has chaired the of VCE, the Virtual Computing have become major sharehold - most influential people three Koch Institute at MIT, and the Metairie Park Country Day Environment Company, formed ers in the once-ailing, 50-year- times since 2006. Genetics Advisory Council at School Recovery and been on by Cisco and EMC with invest - old restaurant chain Luby’s, Inc., Dimon was born in New Harvard Medical School. He is the board of both Crimestoppers ments from VMware and Intel, which is listed on the NYSE; the York. His grandfather, a Greek also on Anatolia College’s board and the Young Leadership Coun - offering technology products company’s market capitalization immigrant from Smyrna, was a of trustees. cil of New Orleans. and solutions for cloud-based is currently $145 million. Ludy’s broker and passed his knowl - www.clarusventures.com He and his wife have two computing. acquired 200-restaurant chain edge of the business onto his son daughters, Zana, and Liza, and He is on the board of Cisco, Fuddruckers (and 3 Koo Koo and partner Theodore, Dimon’s JOHN a son, Nike. a multinational corporation net - Roo California Kitchen eateries) father. As a boy, Dimon attended 22. GEORGES www.georgesenterprises.com working and communications in June 2010 for $63 million. the Browning School, a presti - $350 MIllION MArINE, , www.imperialtrading.com technology and services com - Chris Pappas is President and gious all-boys prep school on the FOOD SErVICES pany that is ranked 87th on ecutive officer of VeriSign for 12 Chief CEO of Luby’s, which now Upper East Side. He later ma - John Georges, 53, is the ANGELIKI Forbes’ Global 2000 list in 2011 years before he resigned in May has 94 Luby’s cafeterias, 57 Fud - jored in Psychology and Eco - founder and CEO of Georges En - 23. FRANGOU with 70,700 employees and re - 2007, leading that company druckers and four other eateries, nomics at Tufts University, and terprises, a company based in $315 MIllION SHIPPING ported net sales at $42.36 bil - through many acquisitions. plus 121 Fuddruckers fran - earned his MBA from Harvard Elmwood, La. specializing in ac - Angeliki Frangou, 47, is the lion. He was also senior advisor He is general partner at chises; Harris Pappas is its Chief University Business School. quiring and growing businesses. Chairman of the Board and for Silver Lake Partners, a $13 Radar Partners LLC, a private in - Operating Officer. Upon graduating in 1982, San - It invests in marine services, Chief Executive Officer of Navios billion private equity firm fo - vestment firm and was named, Pappas Restaurants grew ford Weill convinced him to turn food vending, grocery distribu - Maritime Holdings, a leading cused on making large-scale in - in 2011, a partner and member from their father and uncles’ down offers from Goldman tion, video/arcade entertain - maritime company with a fleet vestments in leading technology of the executive team of online work at Pappas Refrigeration. Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and ment, restaurants and real es - of more than 60 dry bulk vessels companies, from October 2006 television production company Currently Pappas Restaurants join him as an assistant at Amer - tate. and an additional 20-30 vessels to July 2007. Prospect Park’s online ventures. has eight brands, including Pap - ican Express. Through a series The company began as Im - for short- or medium-term em - Capellas’ earlier executive Sclavos is now a director at pas Seafood Houses, Pappasito’s THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans 21

Cantinas, Pappadeaux Seafood He is an advisory director of the Emeritus of the company. band’s fortune –Hanks’ pay, ac - Kitchens, Pappas Bar-B-Q’s, Pap - Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Stavropoulos holds a bache - cording to Forbes in 2011 was pas Bros. Steakhouses, Pappas Houston and of Bank-Frost Na - lor of science degree from Ford - $35 million -- the couple’s net Burger, Yia Yia Mary’s Pappas tional Houston. He is on ham University and a doctorate worth probably exceeds $200 Greek Kitchen and the Dot Cof - Schreiner University’s Advisory in medicinal chemistry from the million. “Mamma Mia!”, the mu - fee Shop. Each company has its Board. He is a member of the University of Washington. He is sical produced by the couple in own specialty, with Yia Yia Texas A&M Foundation Devel - a director of Chemical Financial 2008, made $600 million world - Mary’s, for instance, specializing opment Advisory Committee Corporation, Teradata Corpora - wide. in Greek food: fish and mezedes and serves on the Education De - tion, Maersk Inc. and Tyco In - Wilson is the editor of the (Greek, with a hint of Texas). velopment Council Advisory ternational LTD. He is a trustee Huffington Post’ Huff/Post50 Pappas Restaurants also has a Committee. He has received of the Fidelity Equity and High site for Baby Boomers. food catering business. They re - awards from both Texas A&M Income Funds’ Board and is an cently added electric vehicle University and the school’s Mays Advisory Partner of Clayton, Du - ARIANNA charging at their steakhouse. College of Business. Harris is bilier & Rice LLC. Stavropoulos 27. STASSINO- Chris Pappas serves on the also a member of the World is non-executive chairman of POULOS HUFFINGTON Board of Directors for the President’s Organization. He is Univar, the largest chemical dis - $130 MIllION NEW MEDIA Greater Houston Partnership also a founder of the Hellenic tributor in the U.S. He is on the Arianna Stassinopoulos Huff - and is also a member of the Foundation, which endeavors to Advisory Board for Metalmark ington, 62, is a nationally syn - Dean's Advisory Board at the raise scholarship money for sem - companies, at the end of 2012. Capital LLC. Stavropoulos is also immigrating to the U.S., he had dicated columnist, author of Conrad N. Hilton College of Ho - inary students attending Holy Stavropoulos joined Tyco in a past chairman of the American lived in Bulgaria and Turkey; her thirteen books, and the co- tel and Restaurant Management Cross Greek Orthodox School of March 2007. Tyco is headquar - Chemistry Council, Society of mother was born and raised in founder and editor-in-chief of at the University of Houston. He Theology. An avid boater and tered in New Jersey. It employs Chemical Industry, and Ameri - a Greek village on the Albanian The Huffington Post, a popular was inducted into the college’s fisherman, he and his wife, over 100,000 people worldwide. can Plastics Council. Just a few border. Her family changed their news website. The Huffington Hospitality Industry Hall of Vicky Marinos Pappas, have six In May 2007, just two months of his many awards and honors surname to Wilson, which was Post, a media phenomenon and Honor in 2009. Chris is a mem - children. after Stavropoulos became a are AHEPA’s Man of the Year the name of a local street in opinion-shaper, was born of the ber of the Board of Directors for The brothers’ grandfather, board member, Tyco agreed to (1995), an honorary Doctor of Southern California. brains and charisma of the in - the National Restaurant Associ - H.D., arrived in the U.S. in 1897 pay almost $3 billion to de - Laws Degree from Northwood As co-executive producer, defatigable Greek American ation, the Texas Restaurant As - and became a restaurateur. His frauded investors, the largest University (1998), the Ellis Is - Wilson is often credited with be - sociation, and the Greater Hous - sons followed his lead with en - such payment ever made by a land Medal of Honor (1998) and ing the driving force behind Nia ton Restaurant Association and deavors including opening Pap - single company. The company’s induction into Junior Achieve - Vardalos’ smash-hit movie, “My is an Advisory Board member of pas Bar-B-Q. The Pappas Broth - 2011 sales were over $17 bil - ment of Central Michigan’s Busi - Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which Amegy Bank. In 2001, he was ers are often help nonprofit lion. ness Hall of Fame (2005). “In - became the highest-grossing in - inducted into the Texas Restau - groups and churches renovate Prior to joining Tyco, stitutional Investor” magazine dependent film of all time. Wil - rant Association Hall of Honor. their kitchens. Highly involved Stavropoulos was chairman, named him one of America’s son has had recurring roles in He is also a member of the in the Annunciation Cathedral president, & CEO of The Dow best CEO’s three times (1998, various television series, and has Houston Food Bank’s Capital of Houston, both brothers were Chemical Company, where his 2003 and 2004). In 2010, he re - appeared in several movies, in - Campaign Committee and he granted the title of Archon of career spanned 39 years. His ca - ceived the title of Archon of the cluding “Midnight Caller,” “Vol - has assisted in raising over 40 the Ecumenical Patriarchate in reer with Dow began in Indi - Ecumenical Patriarchate and unteers,” “Bonfire of the Vani - million dollars for the organiza - 2008. anapolis with pharmaceutical re - was inducted into the Midland ties,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” tion. Chris received his Bache - www.pappas.com search in 1967. While he was County Sports Hall of Fame as a “That Thing You Do,” and “Run - lor's degree in Mechanical Engi - with Dow, he held various posi - Professional Baseball Visionary away Bride.” She also played Su - neering from The University of WILLIAM S. tions in research, marketing and (for work including founding the san Borman, wife of astronaut Texas at Austin. He and his wife 26. STAVROPOULOS general management. He also Michigan Baseball Foundation in Frank Borman, in the HBO Maria have been married 30 PH.D served in a variety of research 2005). Stavropoulos and his miniseries “From the Earth to years and have five grown chil - $200 MIllION COrPOrATE and business positions in phar - wife Linda have two children, the Moon,” and performed the dren. ADMINISTrATION maceuticals and diagnostics. Dr. Bill and Angela, and six grand - role of Roxie Hart in the Broad - A graduate of Texas A&M, Dr. William S. Stavropoulos, Stavropoulos was named presi - children. way revival of “Chicago” from woman who is listed as 29th on Harris Pappas was commis - 73, is a director at Tyco Interna - dent of Dow USA in 1990, and www.milb.com June to August of 2006. Re - Forbes’ 2012 list of the World’s sioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in tional Limited, a major diversi - was elected vice president of cently she appeared in the tele - 100 Most Powerful Women. She the U.S. Army, serving one year fied, multinational company that Dow Chemical Company. He RITA vision series “The Good Wife.” and her partners sold the site to in Thailand and one year in Viet - is a leading provider of security was then elected a senior vice 26. WILSON She has contributed to the American Online for a neat $315 nam, earning two Bronze Stars products and services, fire pro - president of Dow in May 1991, $200 MIllION Moffitt Cancer Center by donat - million in February 2011. She and three Army Commendation tection and detection products and became chief operating of - ENTErTAINMENT ing “True Hearts” jewelry, made remains editor-in-chief of the medals. He is also a member of and services, valves and con - ficer in 1993. He served as CEO Rita Wilson, 56, is an Ameri - of sterling silver and 14-carat new Huffington Post Media the Board of Directors of Ocea - trols, and other industrial prod - in 1995-2000 and again in can film and stage actress, pro - gold. The proceeds went to the Group. neering International, Inc., a ucts. 2002-04, and was a member of ducer – and most recently, singer benefit of several charities. She In 2011, the site had ex - publicly-held oil and gas opera - He told TNH that having Dow’s board of directors from too. She is wife of super-star ac - and her husband are members pected 2011 revenue of $60 mil - tions firm, and also served a 10- reached retirement age, he July 1990 to March 2006 (he tor and producer Tom Hanks. of the Greek Orthodox Church. lion and 26 million unique visi - year term on the Board of would from Tyco – which is in was succeeded by Andrew Liv - Born Margarita Ibrahimoff in She has been married to Hanks tors per month. AOL is preparing Trustees of Memorial Hermann the process of dividing into eris, a Greek Australian, who is Los Angeles, Ca. her father was since April 1988, and has two Healthcare System in Houston. three, separate publically-traded also on this list). 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Continued from page 21 tatives before his career ended Greece, at age 14, Spyropoulos Organizations of Illinois be - when he lost a close race for the went to Athens for his high tween 1991-2006. an ambitious Huffington Post U.S. Senate in 1994. The couple school studies. He studied Polit - “Education is the number one Streaming Network of 16 hours divorced in 1997 and by then, ical Science in Sweden. In Swe - priority on my mind,“ says Spy - of live video daily. she had gained national promi - den, he met his artist wife, Erika ropoulos, whose Spyropoulos Huffington was said to own nence and begun to shift to the Knickman Spyropoulos. Scholarship for Hellenic-Ameri - some 14 percent of the site at political left. She told The Fi - After completing his military can Students of Hellas and USA its sale. According to Huffington, nancial Times that she had “long service in the Greek navy be - has benefitted over 300 people the company has some 1,400 been interested in steering her tween 1962 and 1964, he and since 1982. paid journalists (including 800 conservative friends towards so - his wife immigrated to the U.S., Among his many distinctions, Patch writers for AOL), yet the cial activism and the problems where his brothers lived. Previ - Spyropoulos is most proud of his heart and soul of the operation of worsening inequities in Amer - ously, the family had arrived in Ellis Island Medal of Honor re - are still the big name pro bono ican life.” Nonetheless, Ms. Huff - the U.S. in 1888, with his grand - ceived in 2001, a tribute to his bloggers like Alan Dershowitz ington’s first foray into the In - parents Theodore and Aglaia family’s early roots in America. and playwright David Mamet. ternet was a website called Spyropoulos establishing the He and wife have one daughter, Forbes, which named Huffington Resignation.com, which called successful Maple Leaf chocolate Mariyana, who is an attorney among the 31st among the on President Clinton to resign. company, which was a source of and an environmental commis - $9.5 million. World’s Most Powerful Woman, In 2003, she ran as an indepen - employment for many Greek im - sioner in Cook County. He is also a director at Verisk writes: “The sites success had dent candidate for Governor in Me” (2008), which helped es - migrants over the years. www.cam2international.com, Analytics, Inc. of Jersey City, been fueled by an army of 9,000 the California recall election. tablished her as a movie star. Within a few years of estab - www.saeusa.org N.J., the American Insurance As - free bloggers and high-profile Huffington makes guest ap - Her movie “Wanderlust” co- lishing themselves in their new sociation (AIA) and the Associ - contributors…” There are today pearances on television shows. starred her current fiancé, Justin country, Spyropoulos and his CONSTANTINE ation of Bermuda Insurers and some 20,000 bloggers and 36 She serves on several boards of Theroux. wife founded T.G.S. National 29. IORDANOU Reinsurers (ABIR). million unique visitors a month. community service groups, in - In 2011, she reportedly made Wholesalers in 1975. The com - 100 MIllION INSurANCE He is a founding member and Huffington Posts were recently cluding A Place Called Home, over $20 million selling her Bev - pany specializes in wholesaling Constantine “Dino” Iordanou, lifetime trustee of the Pan - launched in the UK and Canada which works with at-risk chil - erly Hills home for $35 million: of automotive parts and its op - 62, is president, CEO and Chair - cyprian Association of America, and upcoming sites are in the dren in South Central Los Ange - twice the price that she bought erations extend to Europe, the man of the Board of Arch Capital established in 1975. He also is a works for Spain and Italy sched - les. She also serves on the board it. U.S. and the Middle East. Group, Ltd, a Bermuda-based in - founding member of Faith: An uled this year. There were re - of EL PAIS and the Committee Forbes, which gave a net surance/reinsurance global gi - Endowment for Orthodoxy and ports of a Greek Huffington Post to Protect Journalists. She has worth for her of $110 million in ant. Hellenism. Iordanou has previ - circulating as well. two daughters. 2007, more recently placed her The CEO’s journey began in ously served as a trustee of Roo - The Post was born in May www.huffingtonpost.com at #22 on its “Celebrity 100” list, Cyprus. He arrived in the U.S. sevelt University and the College 2005 and is one of the most reporting last May that she and worked his way through of Insurance and Risk Manage - widely read, linked to, and cited JENNIFER made $11 million over the past New York University, earning a ment. His awards include the El - sites on the Internet. The rapid 28. ANISTON year. The actress, who cranks B.S. in aerospace engineering lis Island Medal of Honor success of The Post catapulted $120 MIllION out at least two films a year, has before entering the insurance in - (1999). He is married to Mari - Arianna to the Time 100, Time ENTErTAINMENT also been a producer in recent dustry in a trainee role at Amer - anne Iordanou and they have magazine's list of the world's Popularly and affectionately years. She divorced from super - ican International Group (AIG). three children. 100 most influential people. known as “America’s Sweet - star actor Brad Pitt seven years Iordanou told the publication www.archcapgroup.com She was born Arianna heart,” Jennifer Aniston, 44, ago, but remains magazine- Risk & Insurance in 1999 that it Stassinopoulos in Athens, once lived in Crete and Athens cover gold. was when AIG chairman Hank GEORGE Greece, the daughter of Konstan - as Jennifer Anastassakis. The In February she received her Greenberg noticed him in 1980 29. PERLEGOS tinos, who was a journalist and daughter of famous daytime own Hollywood Walk of Fame that he was promoted. In 1987 $100 MIllION ElECTrONICS management consultant, and soap opera star John Aniston Star. Some of her awards in - he moved onto Berkshire Hath - Mr. Perlegos, 62, was chair - Elli Georgiadi. She moved to (Days of Our Lives), she eclipsed clude the Screen Actors Guild away, where he worked up to man & CEO of Atmel Corpora - England at age 16 to attend her father’s television fame and (1996), Emmy (2002), Golden heading their commercial casu - tion (NYSE: ATML), a global Cambridge University and has success with her own role as Globe (2003) and People’s alty operations. From March leader in the manufacturing of ridden a wave of energy, intelli - Rachel Green on the eternally Choice (four times) Awards, and One business led to another. 1992 through December 2001, microcontrollers and other spe - gence and charisma more or less popular situation comedy, has assisted and worked with In 1980, the couple launched, Mr. Iordanou served in various cialized electronics components straight through to her triumph “Friends.” In the show’s final many charities like Rain (an T.G.S. Petroleum Co, Inc. capacities for Zurich Financial in San Jose, Ca. He was born in with The Post. The Times of Lon - years (it ran for ten seasons), anti- sexual assault organiza - In 1985, he was a co-founder Services and its affiliates, includ - Tripoli, Greece. His family came don described her, back in 1971, Aniston and her five castmates tion), St. Jude’s and various can - of CAM2 International, a motor ing as senior executive vice pres - to the United States when he as “glamorous, with lots of struck what was then a record cer-fighting organizations. oil lubricants company pur - ident of group operations and was 12 years of age. Though he charm. Her clothes are stun - deal – $1 million each per chased from Sunoil. CAM2 In - business development of Zurich entered San Jose State Univer - ning.” She graduated with an episode – and she still collects a THEODORE G. ternational continues to grow, Financial Services, president of sity intending to study medicine, M.A. in economics. At 21, she sizeable paycheck from the now- 28. SPYROPOULOS with over $500 million in annual Zurich American Specialties Di - the semiconductor industry at - became president of the famed iconic sitcom’s syndication. $120 MIllION AuTOMOTIVE sales. The company produces vision, chief operating officer tracted his attention. He worked debating society, the Cambridge She continues to have success PArTS, PETrOlEuM agricultural and industrial chem - and chief executive officer of in Silicon Valley upon gradua - Union. on the little screen -- most re - PrODuCTS icals too – all of which are made Zurich American and chief ex - tion, and then received his PhD She moved to the United cently in Tina Fey’s “30 Rock,” Theodore G. Spyropoulos at four refineries in the U.S. ecutive officer of Zurich North in Electrical Engineering at Stan - States in 1980 and was married but Aniston’s film career has may be known to most as cur - Since 1976 he has complete America. ford, working at Intel and help - to California oilman Michael been somewhat hit-or-miss. rent World Council of Hellenes ownership of A&T Holding Com - He joined Bermuda-based Huffington in 1986. In the late Films like “The Switch” (2010) Abroad (SAE) USA Region Co - pany, which is a real estate hold - Arch (NASDAQ: ACGL) in De - 1980s, she wrote several articles were considered bombs, but ordinator, but he’s also an ac - ing company. He was previously cember 2001 as its President for National Review and her have been more than offset by complished businessman in the director of Swiss-based GTE En - and member of its Board of Di - husband, a Republican, served box office bonanzas like “The Chicago area. gineering, Automotive Whole - rectors. In 2003, Iordanou was in the U.S. House of Represen - Breakup” (2006) and “Marley & Born and raised in Kalavryta, salers of Illinois. appointed president and CEO of Spyropoulos has been Presi - Arch Capital Group, Ltd. In No - dent of SAE USA since 2006, in - vember 2008, he was also ap - volved in the reorganization of pointed to the post of Chairman SAE’s international organization of the Board. to be politically and financially Rated one of Forbes’ 400 Best independent from the Greek Big Companies in 2008, Arch JAY W. B ECKER FLORIST government and to, as he says. had $5.03 billion in capital at “have a true representation” of the end of 2011, with stocks val - 225 Jericho Turnpike, Floral Park, NY 11001 10 million Greeks abroad. A mil - ued at about $37 in March 2012. (516) 437-0307 • 1-800-735-0307 lion trees – and the seeds of Arch writes insurance and rein - more environmentally-conscious surance on worldwide basis www.jaywbeckerflowers.com minds- have been planted in through operations in Bermuda, Greece through the Plant Your the US Europe and Canada. Its John Saketos Roots in Greece Foundation, un - subsidiaries offer full range of ing to found SEEQ Technology. der Spyropoulos’ leadership. property and casualty insurance He is legendary for his work on The invasion of Cyprus in and reinsurance products glob - EEPROM flash memory technol - Specializing in Weddings 1974 was an issue that first pro - ally, with a focus on specialty ogy at Intel. pelled Spyropoulos into cam - lines of business. Some 34% of He bootstrapped semicon - and all other occasions paigning for Hellenic issues. He its work is in casualty and pro - ductor company Atmel in 1984 was among the founders that fessional liability, about 33% for with $23,000 of his own money. year and a president of the property/energy/marine and The company designs, develops, American Hellenic Institute in aviation. Arch Capital Group manufactures and sells a range Washington, D.C. He also was Ltd. recently announced that it of integrated circuits products, the first president of the Hellenic will acquire Ariel Re's Credit & including microcontrollers and American National Council, Surety reinsurance operations advanced logic, mixed-signal, founded in 1991. based in Zurich. nonvolatile memory and radio

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He was a partner ance package after a controver - mediate families, although the Holiday Inn at Williamsport, Pa. at Long Island law firm Rivken sial parting of the ways at the Delaware Chancery Court ex - earned a “Newcomer of the Year Radler LLP, working in real es - time. pressed its “discomfort with the award” from Holiday Inn in tate development, zoning and From 2000 to 2004, Catacosi - thoroughness and fairness of the 2007. land use. Tsunis previously also nos had served as chairman, investigation and with the deci - Chartwell Hotel’s chairman was a Special Counsel to the president & CEO of TNP Enter - sions.” Perlegos called a meeting and Chief Executive Officer, Tsu - Town of Huntington, Senator Al - prises Inc., the parent of Texas- to replace five of the existing nis, makes a point of visiting the fonse D'Amato's appointee on New Mexico Power in Fort board members, which the hotels as often as he can. “I don’t the U.S. Senate committee on Worth, Texas. He then was CEO board attempted to cancel. In think there is any substitute for Banking, Housing and Urban Af - till 2005, when TNP was ac - March 2007, the Delaware going and visiting the hotels as fairs, and an attorney for the quired by PNM, yielding double Chancery Court ruled that the a management tool.” He notes: New York City Council. He has the initial investment. shareholder meeting must pro - “Like all Greeks, my family worked on campaigns including He has served on the boards ceed, but this action was com - started out in the restaurant those of Governor George Pataki of Atlantic Bank of New York, pleted after Perlegos was re - In 1965, he and his cousin business. And it’s all about hos - (1994) and Suffolk County Ex - business. ICG was principally en - The Center for the Study of the moved as president. The action George Nikolis took a major step pitality and taking care of ecutive Robert Gaffney (1999). gaged in the extracting and pro - Presidency, First National Bank resulted in a special shareholder by establishing their ANT Con - guests. We went from feeding His decisions on whom to sup - cessing of steam and metallur - of Long Island, German Ameri - vote, which failed to generate struction Company renovating them, as coffee shop owners and port are based on what their gical coal in Northern and can Chamber of Commerce, the necessary 50 percent for Per - homes. Three years later, they restaurateurs, to now providing stances are on the important is - Central Appalachia. ICG pro - Ketema, Inc., Long Island Asso - legos. established a new company and overnight accommodations.” sues of the community – the Ec - duced, processed and sold steam ciation, U.S. Life Corporation, In 2009, the San Francisco this time worked in renovating He added: “Over the past umenical Patriarchate, Greece, coal from 13 regional mining Utilities Mutual Insurance Com - Chronicle valued Perlegos’ restaurants. He told TNH, “in a year, I’ve taken advantage of the and Cyprus. complexes, which were sup - pany and Preservation Services shares at $84.4 million. Stock short period of time, we ended downturn in real estate to pick Active in both his local com - ported by 13 active under - Inc. prices – with some fluctuations- up doing general reconstruc - up some properties. We are cur - munity and the Greek Orthodox ground mines, 11 active surface Catacosinos has served as an have doubled since then. Atmel’s tions.” Angeliades has built 182 rently developing two hotels and Church, he was the youngest mines and 11 preparation plants Adjunct Professor at NYU’s current market value is $5 bil - restaurants in the New York met - board of director member of located throughout West Vir - Graduate School of Business Ad - lion. Despite the conflicts at At - ropolitan area. He said, “I sold Long Island’s Dowling College, ginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Vir - ministration and has lectured at mel, Perlegos remains a force in the majority of them to Greeks, his region’s American Red Cross ginia, and Illinois. many other business schools. Silicon Valley as a semiconduc - I financed all of them and I chapter, and one of the youngest Before the merger, ICG con - He and his wife Florence re - tor consultant. He is among a never went to court for any rea - to receive the title of Archons of trolled around 318 million tons side in Mill Neck, N.Y. A Cancer host of Greek names listed under son and I am saying this with a the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s of metallurgical quality coal re - Research Professorship is named the company Silicon Valley Seed sense of pride.” In 1990 he split Order of St. Andrew. He was serves and around 769 million after the couple at Stony Brook Funding Group. Analysts have with his cousin, establishing his named to the National Council tons of steam coal reserves. ICG University. watched him evolve from a bril - own company called M.A. An - of the Archons. He is also on the also owned the Sago Mine in www.laurelhill.com liant engineer at Intel into a re - geliades. It specializes in federal Board of Trustees of Touro Law West Virginia, where 12 miners spected leader of a billion-dollar jobs such as libraries, court - School. He often actively works were killed during an explosion ANDREW N. public company. Atmel’s IPO houses, and schools. M.A. An - behind the scenes to promote in January 2006. Shares at ICG 33. LIVERIS (initial public offering) increased geliades has also done several the Hellenism and Orthodoxy’s soared with the news of the $70 MIllION CHEMICAlS, his net worth by millions. major New York Mass Transit interests in the U.S. and is a deal, which made Arch the sec - PlASTICS, MANAGEMENT George is married to Angeliki Authority reconstruction pro - founding member of the Faith ond largest reserve holder of Australian-born Andrew Liv - Perlegos. They are members of jects. His other investments in - Endowment. The Lycoming coal in the U.S. eris, 58, is President, Chairman Leadership 100. clude the recent purchase of 47 United Way presented him with The son of immigrants, Cat - and Chief Executive Officer of http://svgsfund.com Dairy Barn convenience stores The Douglas C. Dickey Humani - acosinos was raised in Upper international chemical, materi - in New York. tarian Award last year. Manhattan’s Washington als, agroscience and plastics MERKOURIOS He is one of the original a couple of office and mixed-use He and his wife, Olga, have Heights in New York City. His global giant The Dow Chemical 30. “MIKE” founders of Archangel Michael buildings, mostly in Pennsylva - a son, James, and daughter, studies at NYU included a mas - Company, which is based in Mid - ANGELIADES Church in Roslyn, N.Y. He is also nia.” Eleni. ter’s degree in administration land, Michigan. He succeeded $98 MIllION a member of the AHEPA Gold Tsunis added: “we are pro - www.chartwellhotels.com and a PhD in economics. From William Stavropoulos, a friend CONSTruCTION, rEAl Coast Chapter and Leadership viding a lot of the picks and 1953 to 1956, Catacosinos and mentor (also listed here) in ESTATE 100. shovels for the Marcellus Shale.” WILLIAM J. served as an officer in the U.S. 2004 and became Chairman of Born on the island of Simi, He and his wife of over 30 He explained, “it’s the second 32. CATACOSINOS, Navy and from 1957 to 1969, the Board in 2006. in the Dodecanese, Mike Angeli - years, Libby, reside in Manhas - largest natural gas find in the PH.D he was Assistant Director at Dow today has $60 billion in ades, 71, established the fifth set, N.Y. They have four daugh - history of the world and there is $80 MIllION MINING AND Brookhaven National Labora - annual sales and 52,000 em - largest construction business in ters and four granddaughters. an incredible need for hotels and uTIlITIES tory, Upton, N.Y. He founded ployees worldwide. Though the the metropolitan New York area www.ma-angeliades.com office building and shopping Dr. William J. Catacosinos, and was chairman and CEO of company has faced a decline in (and one that is among the top centers an apartments through - 81, has been a director of Inter - Applied Digital Data Systems, its stock prices in recent years, 400 in the country). The is - GEORGE J. out the northern tier of Pennsyl - national Coal Group (ICG) since Inc., a computer manufacturer Liveris has been generously lander’s first jobs when arriving 31. TSUNIS & vania.” 2004. ICG was a leading coal as well as pioneering heart fetal compensated as Chairman. In in the U.S. in 1960 included FAMILY Tsunis and his family build mining company operating in heart monitor company Coro - 2010 alone, according to Forbes’ packaging cheese, olive oil and $85 MIllION on the legacy of his father, the the United States, with more metrics Medical Systems, Inc., list of top CEO’s compensation, olives, boat construction, load - HOSPITAlITY/rEAl ESTATE late James Tsunis. James and his than 2,220 employees, which which was sold to American he earned $10.41 million in total ing freezers for an ice cream and George J. Tsunis, 45, founded cousin Charles Tsunis began was acquired by Arch Coal in a Home Products with big returns. compensation, bringing his five- even treacherous work painting Chartwell Hotels, LLC in 2006, with coffee shops, carved out a massive $3.4 billion cash pur - He then went on to found and year earnings as CEO to $41 mil - bridges. Then he was hired by building on a family tradition of name for themselves by building chase in 2011. serve as Chairman and CEO of lion. According to CNN Money, George Levesanos, a friend of hotel and restaurant ownership. the Bonwit Inn on Long Island Catacosinos is currently man - Applied Digital Data Systems, a stock price upswing between his carpenter father’s, in con - The company has 900 employ - in 1971, and eventually invested aging partner of Laurel Hill Cap - Inc. (ADDS), which was ac - 2009 and 2010 paid off when struction and realized how much ees, currently owning and man - in hotels and real estate. George ital Partners, a private equity in - quired in 1980 by NCR. the stock options provided to he enjoyed the trade that he had aging a total of 13 hotels, in - Tsunis also oversees his family's vestment firm. His son Bill and He was also chairman & CEO him by Dow increased in value been trained on, in part, by cluding the Intercontinental, real estate and restaurant hold - James are also partners. of Long Island Lighting Co., to the tune of $15 million. working with this carpenter fa - Hilton and Marriot brands –in ings which includes shopping In mid-2011, the ICG acqui - which built the controversial ther in Simi. the states of New York, New centers and office buildings in sition made big news in the coal Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant Continued on page 24

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Continued from page 23 The Dow CEO/Chairman lucrative business of group in - her time and energy to nonprofit with roots in Kastellorizo, surance and benefits consulting. Chefs For Humanity, created in The Board of Directors nom - Greece was born in Darwin, Aus - He prides himself on saving cor - 2004 in response to the tsunami inated Liveris as a force to di - tralia. As he told students in a porate clients millions of dollars. disaster in Indonesia. This not- versify the company. Among his lecture in 2005, his grandfather Stamatakis has been in - for-profit organization has part - important moves was acquiring was a Greek sailor who made volved, since age 26, in real es - nered with Share Our Strength specialty chemical company the impromptu decision to stay tate development projects. He is as well as the World Food Pro - Rohm and Haas for $16.2 billion in Darwin, after traveling there currently involved in a casino gramme to provide nutrition ed - in 2008. on a merchant ship at the start plan for Philadelphia. ucation and hunger relief world - He is a firm believer in incen - of the 20th century. Andrew Liv - On the civic side, he has been wide. Cora and her partner tives for increasing manufactur - eris attended the University of extensively involved in various Jennifer Cora live in Santa Bar - ing in the US again. He even Queensland in Brisbane, gradu - ways in shaping the public life bara, CA with four young sons. wrote, and frequently speaks ating with a bachelor's degree and business environment of www.catcora.com about, his 2011 book “Make it (first-class honors) in Chemical Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. in America” on that topic. Engineering, and was awarded In 1995 Governor Tom Ridge TINA Among the products that the the University Medal for that asked him to chair the Pennsyl - 35. FEY new Dow aims to make in Amer - year. In 2005, he received an vania IMPACCT Commission, $40 MIllION TElEVISION, ica are new products, often with honorary doctorate in science which was charged with finding FIlM an environmentally-friendly or from the school. country’s leading employee ben - ways to trim government spend - Miss. Her grandfather (whose One of the highest-paid research-based core, such as so - The Greek-Australian sits on efits consulting company. Promi - ing in Pennsylvania. The Com - name was shortened from Kara - women in television in 2011 was lar shingles for homes. In June the board of directors of IBM, nent in Philadelphia civic life, mission identified over $5 billion giozos at Ellis Island) and god - none other than “Ms. Bossy - and is vice chairman of the Busi - he is noted for his role in nego - dollars in potential savings. He father Peter Costas owned pants,” Elizabeth Stamatina ness Council, and a vice chair of tiating both the rescue and revi - chaired the Delaware River Port restaurants. She drafted her own “Tina” Fey, 42. Her trajectory in the Business Roundtable. He talization of the city’s historic Authority (DRPA) between 1996 business plan for a restaurant at show business was not a given, serves as president and chair - shipyard and the creation of and 2003. He was pivotal in the age 15. as she broke into comedy first man of the Board of the Inter - Drexel University’s College of effort to restore Philadelphia as Cora studied Exercise Physi - as a member of the Chicago im - national Council of Chemical As - Medicine. a major shipbuilding center, ology and Biology at the Univer - provisational comedy group The sociations. He is a member of When it came to the insur - helping to create a partnership sity of Southern Mississippi. Second City before getting her the U.S. President's Export ance business, he credits his suc - with the Commonwealth of Prompted by Julia Child at a big break in New York City. She Council, the US-India CEO Fo - cess to knowing the details of Pennsylvania, the City of book signing, she decided to put her comedic knack and writ - rum, the Peterson Institute for the business inside and out and Philadelphia and the Federal study at the Culinary Institute ing to work as a writer for NBC International Economics, and having the following rule of Government to build the newest of America in New York. She sketch comedy series Saturday the American Australian Associ - thumb: “Find the smartest peo - and most modern Commercial trained under top chefs in New Night Live (SNL) from 1997 to ation. He serves on the board of ple in that business and spend shipbuilding facility in the York and France. She was a sous 2006. Her wit lifted her to the trustees for The Herbert H. and as much time with them as pos - United States. He told TNH: “We chef in New York before heading top of that male-dominated or - Grace A. Dow Foundation, US - sible.” brought in a world-class ship - to California’s Napa Valley to be ganization, and she became the CIB, and Tufts University. Second-generation Greek building company from Norway the chef of Bistro Don Giovanni. first female head writer in 1999, Liveris is a Chartered Engi - Stamatakis was raised in to run the Yard and they are cur - Early on, Cora was a culinary as well as a performer starting neer and a Fellow of The Insti - Canonsburg, Pa. in what he calls rently undertaking the construc - ambassador for Greek food in in 2000 through 2005. At SNL, tute of Chemical Engineers, as a lower middle class household. tion of the 17th and 18th ocean- America. Cora writes in her first she gave her own twist on cur - 2011, President Obama named well as a Fellow of the Australian Parents Marsha and Nicholas going commercial ship at the cookbook, “Cat Cora’s Kitchen” rent events as a co-anchor of the him co-chair of an Advanced Academy of Technological Sci - hailed from Karpathos and Yard, representing more than 50 (2004) that returning to her Weekend Update news segment. Manufacturing Partnership, ences and Engineering. In 2011 Rhodes islands, and he credits percent of all such ships built in family’s Skopelos home, she had Life imitated art – and vice-versa which aims to pool the efforts alone he received awards from his Yiayia for teaching him about the entire United States since a realization: “Every food on my – as she created the NBC televi - of industry, schools and the gov - the Committee for Economic De - saving the coins he earned shin - 2000.” He is currently on the aunt’s table was simple, authen - sion show ‘30 Rock,” which was ernment for innovation in fields velopment, the United States ing shoes at the local coffee - boards of Aker Philadelphia tic, and perfectly delicious – and inspired by her own SNL expe - like information technology, Council for International Busi - house. Shipyard and the Philadelphia each had a place in my family’s rience. Fey also put her stamp biotechnology, and nanotechnol - ness (USCIB) and the Yale Chief A scholarship student and Shipyard Development Corpora - history. I belong to a line of peo - on American politics with a ogy. Executive Leadership Institute. fraternity president, he studied tion (Chairman). ple that stretches back hundreds He also aligned himself in He was appointed Inaugural industrial engineering at Penn He chaired, for 13 years, the of years, all of them sitting un - 2011 with the president and bil - Chair of The University of State University. After gradua - Drexel University College of der these trees, tasting these lionaire Warren Buffett alike in Queensland in America Founda - tion in 1969, however, he was Medicine, an institution that he same flavors. Suddenly it calling for higher taxation rates tion in 2011. more interested in pursuing a was involved in helping to create seemed as though my years of for millionaires like himself. Last year, he was presented part-time job in insurance than out of two ailing local medical training to be a chef had brought Liveris has been at Dow for with the distinguished Arch - his engineering work. Together institutions. He remains on the me here, back to this table, to 35 years. He first started work - bishop Iakovos Leadership 100 with a partner, he founded his boards of both Drexel and its learn how to bring these flavors ing in Australia in 1976 in man - Award for Excellence. first company, Stamritt, Inc., be - College of Medicine. The home.” Her other cookbooks are ufacturing, engineering, sales, Liveris resides in Midland, fore launching Stamatakis and Manuel Stamatakis Endowment “Cooking From The Hip: Fast, marketing, and business and Mich. with his wife Paula. They Associates in 1972, a company Scholarship for medical students Easy, Phenomenal Meals” and general management. Much of have three adult children. he folded into CME in the 1980s. has raised $2.5 million for “Classics With a Twist: Fresh this time he worked in Asia, in - www.dow.com He also created with a group of Drexel’s future doctors through Takes on Favorite Dishes.” In cluding 14 years in Hong Kong. colleagues, First Financial Re - golf tournaments for students. 2011 she also released her first He has served as general man - MANUEL N. sources in the 1980s, a produc - He is an avid golfer. children’s book, “Suitcase Sur - ager for Dow in Thailand, and 34. STAMATAKIS ers’ group with 100 offices na - He serves on numerous prise for Mommy,” which helps president of all Asia-Pacific op - $50 MIllION INSurANCE, tion-wide. boards, including serving as youngsters whose Mom or Dad erations. He has been a member rEAl ESTATE His insurance work first fo - chairman of the Greater have to travel. She is a contribut - of Dow's Board of Directors since Manuel “Manny” N. Sta - cused on individual retirement Philadelphia Tourism Marketing ing food & lifestyle editor for O, February 2004, and was named matakis, 64, is Founder, Chair - plans, before shifting into exec - Corporation, the Philadelphia Oprah Winfrey’s magazine. guest appearance back at SNL CEO in November 2004. He was man and CEO of Valley Forge, utive compensation and estate Shipyard Development Corpora - The charismatic chef first ap - doing a spot-on impersonation elected as Chairman of the Pa.-based Capital Management planning. In most recent tion and the Pennsylvania peared on TV in 1999, as co-host of vice presidential candidate Board effective April 1, 2006. Enterprises (CME), one of the decades, CME specializes in the Supreme Court Investment Ad - of Food Network’s Melting Pot Sarah Palin in 2008. New York visory Board. He is on the board with Rocco Di Spirito. Among magazine reported that at SNL, of companies including Crowley her many appearances are host - Fey was making $1.5 million per Chemical Corporation and Mis - ing My Country My Kitchen: year, while Forbes indicated that tras Group, Inc. to name but a Greece, Date Plate and co-host - she earned $13 million as pro - few. He has, since the 1980s, ing Kitchen Accomplished. She ducer and head writer for “30 raised “tens of millions,” accord - co-hosts Bravo’s reality series Rock” in 2010-2011, including ing to Stamatakis, for Republi - Around the World in 80 Plates, her book sales. The previous can campaign fundraising, in - which follows 12 chefs compet - year, her salary was listed as cluding the Presidential ing in a culinary race across 10 $7.5 million by the same publi - campaigns of former New York countries in 44 days. cation. City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Her restaurant business is Again, Fey’s turn to autobi - President George W. Bush. growing rapidly. In 2008, she ography paid off for her, finan - A few of his distinctions in - partnered with Macy’s to open cially, as her book of autobio - clude an honorary Doctorate of Cat Cora’s Que (CCQ), a casual graphical, self-deprecating Business from the Drexel College barbeque restaurant. In 2009, anecdotes, Bossypants, sold a of Business and the American Cora partnered with Disney to million copies. (The New York Heart Association’s 2010 Heart open Kouzinna by Cat Cora at Times estimated her advance for of Philadelphia award. Disney’s Board Walk Resort, that book was at $5 million.) In - www.cme-group.com, which features Mediterranean cluded are tales of her life grow - www.phillyshipyard.com, and Greek favorites. In 2011, ing up in Upper Darby, Pa., with www.visitphilly.com she opened Cat Cora’s Kitchen, plenty of references to both the with locations in the Virgin Ter - Greek and German sides within . CAT minal 2 at San Francisco Inter - her (from her mother and Ger - 35 CORA national Airport and the George man/Scottish father, respec - $40 MIllION CulINArY, Bush Intercontinental Airport in tively). She talks in the book too TElEVISION Houston, Tex. A Cat Cora Cock - of feeling very much a minority Cat Cora, 45, is best known tail Lounge and Tapas and in college at University of Vir - for becoming the first and only Gourmet World Market will fol - ginia, but always completely at female Iron Chef on Food Net - low at Salt Lake City Interna - home in the world of theater work’s Iron Chef America in tional Airport as a part of a deal people. 2005. She is an in-demand tele - with Hojeij Branded Foods. Fey has written or starred in vision and promotional figure, a In 2011, the savvy chef film comedies including “Mean best-selling author and head of launched an eco-friendly line of Girls,” “Baby Mama,” “Date a multimillion-dollar media Starfrit cookware and a line of Night,” and “Megamind,” to restaurant, food product and Greek company Gaea’s olive oils, name a few. cookware line. CNN Money vinegar, cooking sauces, tape - Her television work has paid placed her businesses’ worth in nades and olives. She also has a off in seven Emmy Awards, three June 2011 at more than $40 mil - line of California wines under Golden Globe Awards, four lion. the Coranation label. Screen Actors Guild Awards and Cora was born in Jackson, Cora devotes a good part of four Writers Guild of America THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans 25

Awards. Since 2007, Forbes, the New A One-Percenter Gives Far More Than He Takes York Post, Time, People and other media sources agree in their listings that Fey is one of George Mitchell Is can run on cheap natural gas. If and will weaken his autocratic the most influential people to - natural-gas-powered trucks dis - KGB state. Putin’s loss of the en - day. More Transformative place just 7 percent of vehicle ergy stick will either force him She is married to composer gasoline consumption, we save to be more of a cooperative and producer Jeff Richmond and Than Barack Obama $26 billion a year. player in world affairs or risk has two daughters. Fracking of oil and natural loss of power. gas has created, directly and in - Energy independence will al - JAMES N. By Paul roderick Gregory directly, more than a million ter the balance of power away 35. GIANOPULOS high-paying jobs and has filled from politically-questionable $40 MIllION MOVIE Few have heard of George entire states, such as North and unreliable energy producers INDuSTrY Mitchell, other than energy in - Dakota, Oklahoma, and Penn - in the Middle East and Latin James N. Gianopulos, aka dustry specialists. But when his - sylvania, with boomtowns, America. Jim Gianopulos, 60, is a co- tory is told, Mitchell will have while repairing their public fi - Those hoping for a freer chairman-CEO of Fox Filmed En - transformed the energy indus - nances. States like North Dakota hand for America’s foreign pol - tertainment, with international Though recent years and the try, the economy, environment, should thank George Mitchell icy that greater energy indepen - hits under his watch including spread of streaming and piracy U.S. foreign policy, and geopol - for the extra $2 billion in tax dence would give should thank the multi-billion-earning films have seen declines in Hollywood itics more than our self-declared revenues over expectations and George Mitchell. “Avatar” and “Titanic.” box office profits, by 2006 the “transformative” President. It is for the growth of good paying In 1950, the U.S. economy His father arrived in America Gianopulos/Rothman team had ironic that President Obama jobs. produced $10,000 for every in the 1950’s and ran a marine overseen 20 movies that pro - may owe his re election to a suc - 2. Geopolitical benefits: man, woman, and child. Today, and industrial equipment man - duced more than $100 million cessful entrepreneur-risk taker, North America is projected it produces $31,000 per capita. ufacturing business. Born in each domestically, and 26 unappreciated as one of those to become a net oil exporter by Why are the very people Obama Brooklyn, N.Y., Gianopoulos movies that earned $100 million people who “didn’t build it on 2030. Currently the U.S. has a professes to be looking out for went on to study at Boston Uni - each internationally. “The Simp - their own.” A fracking rig at the Barnett $300 billion plus net-energy ex - – the poor and the middle class versity, New York's Fordham Law sons Movie”, the “X-Men” series, Obama’s lexicon places Shale in North Central Texas, port deficit. A net-energy ex - – more than three times as pros - School, and New York University “The Devil Wears Prada,” the Mitchell among the greedy one- where Mitchell first began porting America would improve perous as sixty years ago? It’s School of Law. Before specializ - “Star Wars” Trilogy, the “Ice Age” percenters, who refuse to “give poking for natural gas in the its trade deficit by over $300 bil - not that we work harder and ing in entertainment law, how - series; and Fox Searchlight Pic - back to society” what they owe. early 1980s. lion a year. longer than in 1950. In fact, we ever, he spent a summer work - tures’ more “arthouse” successes Mitchell, however, has given Those worried about the U.S. work two hundred hours less ing on a tanker and traveling the like “Slumdog Millionaire” and back a thousand or a million Not true. Mitchell’s $2.4 billion trade deficit should thank per year under safer more com - world. “Sideways” were among the suc - fold. The federal government wealth is a pittance compared George Mitchell. ExxonMobil fortable conditions. He was in the news in 2011 cesses. Director James could pay him billions and still to the value he added to society: and the International Energy We enjoy higher standards of fighting for anti-piracy legisla - Cameron's “Avatar” cost the stu - be in Mitchell’s debt. It was 1. Economic benefits: Agency project that the U.S. will living because talented risk tak - tion, although his career in the dio $380 million, but earned Mitchell, whose entrepreneurial The surge in energy produc - overtake Saudi Arabia and Rus - ers, visionaries, and entrepre - entertainment world began pro - $2.7 billion worldwide. spirit, risk taking, and persever - tion from fracking reduced un - sia as the world’s top energy neurs – from the 2 percent to tecting the copyright privileges Gianopoulos, referring with ance gave us the fracking revo - employment and allowed producer by 2017 due to frack - the small business owner – cre - of members of the American So - pride to a “Greek Mafia” in Hol - lution. Obama to boast that “in 2011, ing of oil and gas. ate new products, organize pro - ciety of Composers, Authors & lywood, makes sure that all of Fracking is Mitchell’s American oil production Those who view the U.S. as duction more efficiently, and Publishers (ASCAP). He went on Hellenic Hollywood’s stars achievement (more than any reached the highest level in a declining power should thank seek out new technologies, to work at RCA/Columbia Pic - gather at his annual Easter party. other single person). Steve nearly a decade and natural gas George Mitchell for returning working against odds and likely tures International Video and in He is a Governor of the Academy Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, in production reached an all-time America to preeminence in en - to fail. They do so because the funding/distribution for Para - of Motion Picture Arts & Sci - their Freedom Manifesto, write high.” The cheaper energy ergy production after numerous free enterprise system offers mount’s international pay TV. ences, a member of the Board of Mitchell’s 15-year quest to de - prices associated with fracking failed government pipe dreams them the rewards that Obama In 1992, he was hired by Fox of the Motion Picture & Televi - velop hydraulic fracturing: boosted economic output as of a completely energy-indepen - rails against. to run its international TV and sion Fund, and a trustee of the “In the 1980s, energy experts lower production costs spread dent America. Who owes whom? Mitchell’s worldwide pay TV. He was pres - American Film Institute. believed that the supply of nat - through energy industries. Fracking threatens to break natural gas may not be as sexy ident of Twentieth Century Fox Gianopoulos also serves on ural gas was dwindling. This Those who cheered the re- Russia’s stranglehold on Eu - as Steve Jobs’s ipads, but its im - International from 1994 to the National Entertainment Ad - concern spread to Mitchell, a election of Barack Obama rope’s natural gas markets. Eu - pact on employment, politics, 2000, before being appointed visory Council for the Anti- Houston-based independent en - should thank George Mitchell. rope is already showing its in - and our way of life is as great co-chairman along with Tom Defamation League and The ergy producer…..to look for U.S. households currently dependence by accusing Russia’s or greater. Rothman in 2000. “Gianopulos Brady Center. He is on the X- ways to replace his critical re - save $12 billion a year on resi - Gazprom of monopoly pricing. is a virtual unknown in Holly - Foundation Board of Trustees. serves….The problem was that dential natural gas over what Cheap gas from alternative Editor’s note: The following op- wood,” wrote the San Francisco He also has served on Honorary (gas) was locked in shale, the they would have paid without sources will deprive Putin of his ed ran in Forbes online on Jan. Chronicle at the time. But by Committees for The Fulfillment extremely dense layer of rock fracking. Americans pay less major source of state finance, 13, 2013 2007, Premiere counted them Fund, The City of Hope and the under Dallas and Fort Worth.” than half as much as the French among the most powerful peo - Multiple Sclerosis Society for Despite skepticism from all – a country that has banned ple in Hollywood. which he was the 2001 honoree, sides, “Mitchell persisted, work - Mitchell’s fracking. Gianopulos was given the ti - The Help Group, which honored ing for fifteen years at his own When American households MARIA- TINA MINOAN JEWLERY tle of Chief Executive Officer in him with its Humanitarian expense. The result was an en - write their monthly checks to CUSTOM MADE - HANDCRAFTED JEWLERY 2006 at Fox. In 2009, he and Award in 2005, the Alliance for hanced version of a technique the gas company, they should 415.299.1442 Tom Rothman were also ap - Lupus Research and others. He called hydraulic fracturing – quietly thank George Mitchell. WWW.GREEKISLANDHOUSE.COM pointed to oversee News Corpo - has been a member and sup - “fracking” – that extracts natural American industry pays half of ration’s Los Angeles-based cre - porter of the Army Archerd gas by expanding natural or German industry for electricity Maria-Tina Minoan Jewelry™ designs ative production divisions, Fund's Board and on the Advi - man-made fractures in rock.” thanks to our cheap natural gas. are created by six time Emmy Award Winning including the film and television sory Council of the Rett Syn - The 93-year-old Mitchell, son Those who fear for U.S man - designer, Maria-Tina Karamanlakis. studios. They manage all drome Research Trust. of a Greek immigrant, father of ufacturing should thank George film/TV production and market - He resides in Los Angeles ten, and self-made man, ranks Mitchell for rising manufactur - "Stellar" - hand fabricated 22k gold, ing and global distribution with his wife Ann and their three as the 347th richest man in the ing competitiveness. 4 Victorian European cut diamonds through all outlets and markets, daughters, Mimi, an up-and- world. Demanding that a George Once natural-gas refueling (over 100 years old, cut for candlelight including all the new high-tech coming actress, Alexa, and Niki. Mitchell “give back” implies he stations are built along our in - since there was no electricity) means. www.foxmovies.com took something that was not his. terstate highways, large trucks 22k gold chain with Maria-Tina signature clasp

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