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THE NATIONAL HERALD • MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest GREEKS in AMERICA THE NATIONAL HERALD • MARCH 2, 2013 50 Wealthiest GREEKS IN AMERICA The National Herald www.thenationalherald.com www.ekirikas.com 2 50 Wealthiest Greek Americans THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 2, 2013 The National Herald Behrakis Brings Greece and Harvard A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest to the Together to Save Lives Greek American community of the United States of America. Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris Fellowship Sponsors Assistant to Publisher, Advertising Veta H. Diamataris Papadopoulos Greek Cardiologists Special Section Editor Sophia Stratakis Huling for Cutting-Edge Production Manager Chrysoula Karametros Research in the U.S. 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 Tel: (718)784-5255, Fax: (718)472-0510, By Sophia Stratakis Huling e-mail: [email protected] TNH Staff Writer Democritou 1 and Academias Sts, Athens, 10671, Greece Tel: 011.30.210.3614.598, Fax: 011.30.210.3643.776, e-mail: Heart disease causes more [email protected] deaths in all the industrialized world than any other illness. Subscriptions by mail : 1 year $66.00, 6 months $33.00, 3 months $22.00, 1 month $11.00 Doctors commonly point out the Home delivery NY, NJ, CT: 1 year $88.00, 6 months $48.00, 3 months $33.00, 1 month high-risk factors: smoking, high $14.00 Home delivery New England States : blood sugar, alcohol abuse, high 1 year $109.00, 6 months $57.00, 3 months $41.00, 1 month $18.00 blood pressure, high cholesterol, On line subscription : Subscribers to the print edition: 1 year $34.95, 6 months $23.95, 3 months $14.95; Non subscribers : 1 year $45.95, 6 months $29.95, 3 months $18.95 and neglect of heart health. 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.
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