The 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America

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They have given than $10 million, and he just Angelike Contis away $100 million over the past undertook a commitment to do - Production Manager ten years. nate $10 million more. They Chrysoula Karametros Acumen and integrity. That’s have started over 2000 busi - the formula that has worked nesses in the state of Iowa and 37-10 30th Street, and he will not tamper with suc - given away $3.5 million in LIC, NY 11101-2614 cess. “They wouldn’t come scholarships. Tel: (718)784-5255, back,” if that weren’t the case, Always brimming with ideas Fax: (718)472-0510, he said of the people the famed and ready to seize opportuni - e-mail: venture capitalist with whom ties, he also learned to pay at - [email protected] has made deals. “They all make tention to other geniuses. “I Democritou 1 and Academias Sts, money. They are all rich.” went into venture capital in Athens, 10671, Greece Generosity is also an impor - 1969.” He told TNH he knew a Tel: 011.30.210.3614.598, Fax: tant element in his personal and substantial merchant in Des 011.30.210.3643.776, e-mail: professional life. “We are very Moines, IA, whom he ap - [email protected] fair, we share. Our employees proached about the investment make money, our secretaries fund he was establishing. The Subscriptions by mail : 1 year $66.00, 6 months $33.00, 3 months $22.00, too. That’s the name of the merchant told him, “I have a 1 month $11.00 game. We share.” friend in Omaha, his name is Home delivery NY, NJ, CT: Pappajohn has put together Warren Buffett. I’ve got a little 1 year $88.00, 6 months $48.00, more than 50 major public busi - money with him. If he says it’s 3 months $33.00, 1 month $14.00 ness deals. “Probably the most okay, I’ll give you a little money, Home delivery New England States, Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland : in the country,” said the man but he thinks we are going into 1 year $109.00, 6 months $57.00, who never interviewed for a job. a depression.” 3 months $41.00, 1 month $18.00 “I have always been an entre - He called up and excitedly On line subscription : Subscribers preneur,” he said, but he is far pitched Buffett himself, who to the print edition: 1 year $34.95, 6 months $23.95, 3 months $14.95; from being done. said, “son you’re making a big Non subscribers : 1 year $45.95, Still in venture capital, he mistake. I have liquidated all my 6 months $29.95, 3 months $18.95 said: “I’m doing the best deals venture funds.” He said Buffett ever and I have the best portfo - was right on, and he shifted to lio I ever had.” Along with suc - mergers and acquisitions until cess, he also cultivates his roots, John and Mary Pappajohn share a passion for contemporary art. They also love to donate the market opened up again being active in numerous com - pieces for everyone else to enjoy too. later in the 70s. munity endeavors. When Pappajohn dove into Pappajohn was born on the village of Aghios Lukas, like they ers took turns going to college. cess stories. Aristotle is in the venture capital, it was a brand island of Evia. His grandfather did for the Byzantine emperors, It took him six years, taking insurance business and Socrates new industry – he said at the was a priest and virtually every - and he picked his bride Maria some years off, but he had his is a practicing attorney. time he was one of only 30 or one in his mother and fathers’ out of the lineup. degree and $2000 in the bank After being graduated from 40 venture capitalists in Amer - families immigrated to Mason “Thirty days after that they and no debt. the University of Iowa with a ica – and he said that he got City, IA. As a major railroad were married and thirty days af - They would be proud that business degree, his first busi - very lucky early. junction with two cement plants ter that my mom is pregnant their son is a Greek-American ness project was to start an in - Pappajohn did a deal for a and other industries, opportu - with me.” She quickly distin - dream overachiever. He has four surance company, but his entre - company in San Diego, helping nities were abound. guished herself as the best honorary degrees – maybe the preneurial experience began them raise money. He ended up His father came over in steer - Greek cook in Mason City. “She most of any Greek-American much earlier. starting seven companies there, age at the turn of the last cen - made everything and they gave other than Peter G. Peterson. “As a kid I was a junker. I taking six of them public –while tury at a time when there were away food to everybody. My dad Like many successful Greek- would leave home with two he still lived in Des Moines. already 4,000 Greeks in Mason would typically bring needy Americans, Pappajohn will tell gunny sacks and I would do He said he relies on his in - City and opened a grocery store. people home for lunch.” you that his education included rags, copper, lead, brass, and stincts, but acknowledged they He went back to Greece to fight his time working in his father’s sell it at the junkyard. The do a lot of research. Pappajohn the Turks – “he was a palikari- CHARITY IS LEARNED store. “I was a meat cutter. My owner said I was his best cus - also has two brilliant young as - a brave fellow” Pappajohn said HOME younger brothers and I did more tomer. I did everything.” sociates and agrees 100 percent – but after the Asia Minor Dis - His father made a lot of than 50,000 chickens by hand. He obviously had an eye for with the philosophy, expressed aster, he returned to Mason City. money, but like many Greek We chased the chickens on the opportunity and value, but he by others in this issue like John In between he needed to find men he was a chain smoker and farm, put them in the coup and said his father taught him the Catsimatidis, that a key to suc - a wife, so, like many successful at age 54, he had a fatal heart took them back to the grocery vital lesson of frugality. “We all cess is hiring people who are Greek-Americans, he went back attack. Pappajohn’s mother had store to be butchered.” learned to save money. That’s smarter than you. in triumph and they brought out to learn English, but they kept Hellenism is in their genes, how we survived and kept the the eligible young women of the the store and he and his broth - in their names and in their suc - grocery store until we went to Continued on page 14 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA 3

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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Congratulations to the men and women in this speCial issue for Cultivating their talents to the benefit of our Community, the Country and the whole world. i wish them and future generations of helleniC leaders suCCess in their endeavors.

emmanuel a. Kampouris 4 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 James Chanos, In Short-Selling for the Long Run

By Angelike Contis at Gilford Securities. After that overall today. At the end of the day, Chanos TNH Staff Writer he worked for several firms on Chanos, who launched and believes, “You need a natural Wall Street, including Deutsche chairs the Coalition of Private check on irrational exuberance, Short-seller James Chanos’ Bank. “I realized that I didn’t en - Investment Companies, which is and quite frankly on the ability Greek roots are in Delphi, the joy investment banking, but I en - an advocate of his industry of companies to play games with home of the ancient oracle. That joyed research more.” made up of high-powered mem - their numbers and defraud their is very fitting, as he often ap - The clincher for him was, in bers, has lobbied in the U.S. The investors. ” pears, in the financial media, 1982 at Gilford Securities, un - coalition’s attention is shifting to dropping hints of what is to covering that something was not Europe says Chanos, who has GLOBAL SCOPE come, including naming compa - quite right with the numbers of testified for the group in front Kynikos scrutinizes closely a nies and countries that are piano maker Baldwin-United, of Congress and commented on couple of hundred companies, doomed to failure. If the founder which went bankrupt in 1983. regulations proposed by the U.S. notes Chanos, who says that the and head of Kynikos Associates “I sort of stumbled onto the Securities and Exchange Com - company’s global portfolio at investing business is best known short side when one of the very mission and the Financial Ser - any time includes “about 100 for predicting Enron’s collapse, first companies I looked at vices Authority in the United positions.” Chanos often ap - the world is waiting to see if his turned out to be an enormous Kingdom. He explains that in the pears on business news pro - China’s bubble will burst, too. financial fraud, Baldwin-United. U.S. the regulatory framework grams, sharing his opinions on But while the world of short- I think that’s what set me off. It for hedge funds has become bad investments. He stresses selling may appear to be about was really almost by accident.” clearer with the Dodd-Frank fi - that Kynikos’ opinions on com - miraculously seeing into the fu - He attributes his progress nancial regulation act. Within panies are based on publically- ture, Chanos’ fortune is built on more to “a lot of trial and error Europe, however, where there available information, but adds good old fashioned research and and learning the hard way” than are greater restrictions against that it’s part of the biz to know number-crunching. The last few to any mentor. “Most short sell - short-selling, he notes, “it’s a lit - when to speak and when to shut years he has also tried to shape ers are sort of lone wolves by tle bit more uncertain” and up. “Short-sellers are protected the regulatory environment and design,” he adds. points to the coalition’s website by the Constitution of the media landscape in the United Later, he would sell short on for additional info: www.finan - United States too, but the ques - States and abroad to his advan - other financial disasters includ - cialdetectives.org. tion is: is it in our clients’ inter - tage. ing Commodore International, ests to talk about our positions? That the stakes are high is Coleco, Integrated Resources, THE SOCIAL VALUE And sometimes it is and some - clear. Though different numbers Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Con - OF SHORT SELLERS times it isn’t.” He points to En - circulate, Chanos puts the num - seco, and Tyco International, En - Short-sellers get their share ron and China’s property mar - ber of funds under management ron in 2000/2001 – and recently, James Chanos, founder and head of Kynikos Associates, points of slack. They are often accused kets, where “we’ll tell anybody by his company at “about $6 bil - Sotheby’s. to the fraud-fighting aspect of short selling. He's been a leader of heartlessly bringing down who will listen” about the prob - lion.” Looking back, Chanos notes in the profession since 1985. companies for profit. lems. He also notes: “But on a Kynikos Associates, which he that Kynikos Associates, one of Chanos doesn’t see things smaller situation where we launched in 1985 with a partner the oldest in the hedge fund out today don’t have the same The hedge fund business ex - that way. The hedge fund man - don’t want a lot of company, a with $16 million, has come a world, is “sort of ancient by any ability to enter the risky business ploded, Chanos notes, in the ager, who enjoys teaching a class lot of shortsellers, we might not long way. standards,” having been estab - of short-selling. When he and his past 10-15 years, changing from in the history of financial fraud ever talk about it.” He told TNH about the ori - lished over 25 years ago. While then-partner Jim Levitas started a mom and pop financial busi - at the Business School of his With regards to China, he re - gins not only of his company, but it may no longer be, as it was in out, they only had $1 million of ness into a global business. alma mater Yale each spring, mains steadfast. “We believe also of his controversial profes - 1990, among the ten largest their own – and $15 million Chanos counts himself lucky gives a little historical perspec - that the Chinese banking system sion as a whole. hedge funds in the world, he is from a single client. “It just is that his first client at Kynikos As - tive. “People have not liked short is really problematic due to bad proud of the company’s achieve - not possible today, both due to sociates was not only patient, sellers since the financial mar - loans that not only are going to TRIAL AND ERROR ments. additional regulation and the but often an educator of sorts, kets that started in the 17th Cen - build up due to this cycle, but Chanos was born in Milwau - needs of institutional investors “pointing things out to us, and tury. Short sellers have always that were swept under the rug kee, WI to Greek father Steve LASTING BUSINESS to put a shingle out like you not vice versa.” been reviled because of profiting from previous cycles.” He has (Efstathios) and Irish mother Chanos remarks, “I’m proud - could back then and start with a The business has a high at - off the misery of others never often observed, in recent Mary, who converted, he points est of the fact that we built a small track record.” He explains, trition rate, Kynikos’ founder ex - seems to settle well with peo - months, that China’s problems out “like a good Greek wife to lasting business.” He points to “nowadays in order to hire the plains, due to the “nature of the ple.” were ignored thanks to the Eu - Greek Orthodoxy.” The family the company’s two offices (in compliance people and the risk fee structure.” He explains: “You He points out, however, ropean sovereign situation in was in the dry-cleaning business. New York and London), its 30- people and everything that earn a performance fee only on “There hasn’t been one major fi - 2011. Chanos went East to study po - plus employees and six partners. meaningful investors, whether profits and if you lose money, nancial fraud in the last 25 years With regards to the situation litical science and economics at He adds: “I’ve worked on some its institutional or individual, you have to earn money back, I’ve been doing business that in Greece, and the E.U. more Yale (1980). of the big spectacular frauds of need to see, you’re talking about before you begin earning perfor - wasn’t uncovered either by an generally, he points to “a very Of the career that followed, the last 25 years, the Enrons of necessary assets of $100-$200 mance fees again. One or two internal whistleblower, a jour - bad political dynamic,” where he says, “I stumbled into what I the world, [it's] something that million at least. Otherwise you bad years can derail a manage - nalist and/or a shortseller.” He both the taxpayers in the so- do for a living now by accident.” we all feel good about.” are just not going to have ment company and key people calls short sellers “the real time called donor countries like Ger - What he does now, short-selling, He explains that Kynikos As - enough to make it work.” will leave because they feel they financial detectives in the finan - many and the recipient coun - involves borrowing shares at sociates consists of three pools Chanos regrets: “The hurdle won’t get bonuses.” Chanos cial marketplace,” whose role of - tries like Greece are all upset. high prices, selling those, then of assets, including a U.S. fund, has completely been raised. And notes that the industry has al - ten is unappreciated. He notes, His take on what we’ve seen returning the shares after their the Ursus fund and Kynikos sometimes I think that that’s un - ways been marked by a high fail - “internal auditors, external au - play out recently are efforts by value has dropped and pocket - Global. The company also has a fortunate because it keeps a lot ure rate, which may currently ditors, internal attorneys, exter - authorities to prevent a banking ing the difference. traditional long/short hedge of people who otherwise might be as high as five or ten percent nal attorneys never find these system problem. He points to a Looking back, the hedge fund fund called Kynikos Opportunity have been talented from going a year. things.” He agrees with Ameri - public “tug-of-war between the guru notes that with no formal Fund. All of the funds are run out on their own.” He adds that Kynikos may be the world’s can financier Bernard Baruch’s market and the EU.” The EU, he training available on the art of out of New York, with a research even in 1990, “we were only top short-selling hedge fund. (1870–1965) opinion that a notes keeps suggesting “all sort short-selling itself, he edged in office in London. running $600 million, which Chanos estimates that his com - market without bears (short-sell - of accounting games,” and “the that direction after working in It’s unfortunate, in his opin - was not a lot of money by to - pany is probably one of the top ers) is like a government without finance. First stop was Chicago, ion, that young people starting day’s standards.” 50 hedge funds in the world a free press. Continued on page 22

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HASEOTES (Haseotes) Bentas, daughter of (www.onemission.org) child - 1940 graduate of Texas A&M ebration. 1. FAMILY Vasilios and Aphrodite hood cancer foundation. University with a degree in pe - Mitchell still goes to his office $3.3 BILLION DAIRY, Haseotes, is chairman of the www.cumberlandfarms.com troleum engineering, he served almost every day, and still trav - CONVENIENCE STORES, board of directors. Her nephew, in the U.S. Army Corps of Engi - els regularly for business pur - PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Ari Haseotes, is the president. JOHN A. neers during World War II be - poses. He is a major benefactor Company headquarters are 2. CATSIMATIDIS fore founding Roxoil Drilling, of the Houston-Galveston area’s Vasilios and Aphrodite in Framingham, MA. Cumber - $2.2 BILLION OIL, REAL which eventually became hospitals. He is also a nature en - Haseotes emigrated from land Farms owns and operates ESTATE, SUPERMARKETS Mitchell Energy & Development thusiast, and a believer in envi - Greece’s Macedonia and Epirus convenience stores and gas sta - Corp, with his brother Johnny ronmental and energy conser - regions to the US, buying a one- tions throughout New England, Ranked 212th among the in 1946. vation. He is opposed to oil cow dairy farm in Cumberland, New York, the Mid-Atlantic Forbes 400, John Catsimatidis, He made his fortune by wild - drilling in the Alaska wildlife RI for $84 in 1938. Cumberland States and Florida under the 63, is chairman & CEO of the catting (i.e., searching for, and refuge, and has funded a $10 Farms (incorporated in 1957) Cumberland Farms, Exxon, and Red Apple Group. Ranked 98th finding, reserves) in North Texas million National Academies eventually grew to become the Gulf names. Its Gulf Oil arm among the country’s largest pri - and Southern Louisiana oil and study on sustainable develop - largest dairy farm operation in sells gasoline to franchised ser - vately held companies by gas fields, and then selling most ment and population growth. Massachusetts. In 1956, the vice stations. The company first Forbes, with 7,600 employees of his company’s interests to De - In November 2011, he was – company opened a jug-milk added a gas station to one of its and estimated annual revenues von Energy for $3.5 billion in along with Terry Englender and store in Bellingham, MA. Few stores in 1971 and expanded of $3.80 billion, Red Apple has 2001. He invested the proceeds Gary Lash, named one of For - convenience food stores offering greatly in the wake of the 1973- holdings in oil refining, retail of the sale in real estate: e.g., eign Policy magazine’s Top 100 dawn-to- midnight service every 74 Arab oil embargo. By 1975 petroleum products, conve - Bald Head Island, North Car - Global Thinkers “For upending day of the week existed in the Cumberland Farms opened its nience stores, supermarkets and olina. He also owns more than the politics of energy” with his North in the 1950’s. 1000th store. The following real estate. With a major focus 20 hotels and private buildings. investment, three decades ear - year, it opened a 560,000- on energy, Catsimatidis’ fortune His son, Todd is a major share - lier, in tapping underground square-foot bakery and ware - accelerated with rising oil States. Since 1988 he has holder in Alta Resources, a com - natural gas reserves. house in Westborough, MA, and prices. funded scholarships at the NYU pany developing shale assets. purchased more than 500 Gulf His parents came to America School of Business. He is also Mitchell resides in The MICHAEL and Chevron service stations with him from the island of the publisher of the Hellenic Woodlands, an environmentally 4. JAHARIS and related assets in 11 North - Nisyros while he was a child. He Times. He is married and the fa - friendly region he founded in $1.9 BILLION eastern states. The transaction grew up in New York City on ther of two children. His wife 1974. His wife, Cynthia, passed PHARMACEUTICALS included contracts to supply Manhattan’s west side. He at - Margo runs his company’s in- away in 2009. They have ten Ranked 227th among the gasoline to about 1,700 Gulf tended New York University, but house advertising agency. Their children and 28 grandchildren. Forbes Richest 400 Americans, dealers and 2,000 stations, mak - dropped out before completing Hellenic Times Scholarship The Mitchells have been one with an estimated net worth of ing Cumberland Farms the his degree requirements because Fund, which has awarded hun - of A&M’s largest private bene - $1.9 billion Michael Jaharis, 83, largest independent seller of of business demands. He dreds of thousands in scholar - factors. Their gifts in support of founded Kos Pharmaceuticals. gasoline in America. In 2010, opened his first grocery store in ships to Greek American stu - Jaharis, the son of Greek im - Gulf Oil L.P., a subsidiary of 1969, and owned ten stores by dents, celebrated its 20th migrants, is a native of Chicago; Cumberland Farms, announced the age of 24, making $25 mil - Anniversary last May. Catsima - he earned his bachelor’s degree it had acquired all rights, title lion a year in revenue. He tidis, who in 2009 publically from Carroll University in Wis - and interest to the “Gulf” brand plowed $5 million into Manhat - considered running for mayor consin. He served in the U.S. in the U.S. In 2012, Cumberland tan real estate in 1977; that of New York, is among the lead - Army Medical Corps during the Gulf Group announced that it is property was worth $100 mil - ing Greek-Americans actively in - Korean War and later attended entering the electricity business lion just five years later. volved in Republican fundrais - night school at DePaul Univer - in Connecticut. Today, Red Apple reportedly ing for the 2012 presidential sity to earn his law degree while At one point Cumberland owns $500 million worth of race. He told Crain’s New York working as a sales representa - Farms had 1,200 stores, about property and the Gristedes su - in November 2011: “I don't nec - tive for Miles Laboratories. In half of which were selling gas. permarket chain. He stumbled essarily want to be mayor…But 1972, Jaharis and partner Lily (Haseotes) Bentas Now a company of over 1,000 upon the Chapter 11 proceed - I love New York City and I don't Phillip Frost acquired Key Phar - retail stores and stations, with ings of United Refining in War - want it to go downhill. If we maceuticals and transformed But by 1967, there were $8.02 billion in revenues (a 22 ren, PA and purchased the oil can't get someone who is really the tiny producer of cough and some 8,000. With some 400 percent increase over the previ - refiner’s stock for $7.5 million. qualified to do a good job for cold remedies into a power - stores, Cumberland Farms was ous year) and 6,500 employees, Today, the firm owns 375 gas our city, then I may do some - house company with newly de - among the industry leaders. By Forbes ranked Cumberland outlets and convenience stores, thing about it.” veloped top-selling asthma and the early 1990’s, Cumberland Farms the 37th largest privately primarily in western Pennsylva - www.urc.com cardio- vascular drugs. Under Farms ranked third among the held company in the U.S. in nia and Western New York. His his leadership, Key’s sales in - country’s convenience store 2011 (up from 44th the previ - most recent projects include sev - GEORGE P. creased 100- fold before the chains, and was also a leader in ous year). eral residential development 2. MITCHELL company’s $836 million merger both the retail and wholesale Bentas told TNH that the projects in Brooklyn, and invest - $2.2 BILLION ENERGY, REAL with Schering- Plough in 1986. distribution of petroleum prod - company continues to grow and ing in health-related companies. ESTATE Two years later, Jaharis ucts. improve. “The company is con - Catsimatidis is a licensed pi - Ranked 188th among Forbes’ the University’s Physics depart - launched Kos Pharmaceuticals, A closely held family-owned tinuing to upgrade its locations lot, though eye surgery has “400 Richest Americans” and ment include $35 million for which pioneered the HDL cho - company since its inception, and offer more prepared foods. grounded him over the past few 420th among Forbes’ “World's two new facilities, which lesterol market with its good Cumberland Farms has since We are constantly updating our years. He has helped raise mil - Billionaires”, with an estimated opened in 2009. Mitchell had cholesterol-raising drug Nias - grown to become a multi-bil - sites.” lions for Alzheimer’s, Parkin - net worth of $2.2 billion, Mr. reportedly contributed $159 to pan, before being sold to Abbott lion-dollar corporation. Lily Cumberland Farms has given son’s, and Juvenile Diabetes re - Mitchell is chairman of GPM educational institutions by Laboratories in 2006 for $4.2 millions in cash and products to search. He served as Inc., and is now 92 years of age. 2011. Major interests have in - billion. Today, Jaharis is founder Note : All names marked benefit young people, from its co-chairman and founder of the The son of a Greek immi - cluded historic preservation, in - and director of Arisaph Pharma - with an asterisk (*) indicate Believe and Achieve Scholarship Brooklyn Tech Endowment grant goatherd, he grew up in cluding helping to rejuvenate ceuticals Inc., a privately held newcomers to the TNH 50 program to hunger relief efforts. Foundation. The $10 million Galveston, Texas – in the same Galveston’s historic Strand Dis - drug discovery and bio-tech Wealthiest list. Ari Haseotes and his wife Ashley fund is the largest gift to a sec - building where his father’s dry trict and helped revitalize the company, and a founder of Vat - also founded the One Mission ondary school in the United cleaning shop was located. A city’s mid-winter Mardi Gras cel - era Healthcare Partners LLC, a

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York. They have two children ness leader and philanthropist. ecution of his two sons, Evan Spanos was inducted into the and five grandchildren. He was the 1993 recipient of and Daren. Metropoulos and his California Building Industry Hall the Horatio Alger Award of Dis - wife Marianne live in Green - of Fame in 2005. He bought 60 GEORGE L. tinguished Americans, and a wich, CT. Among his honors in percent of the Chargers from 5. ARGYROS 2001 recipient of the Ellis Island 2011 were the Association for then-majority owner Eugene $1.8 BILLION REAL ESTATE Medal of Honor. Chapman’s Corporate Growth Chicago’s Klein in 1984. Over the next ten Ranked 719th amongst School of Business and Econom - DealMaker and Hellenic Ameri - years, he bought out the shares Forbes’ world billionaires, with ics was renamed in his honor in can Bankers Association Execu - of several small co-owners, an estimated net worth of $1.8 1999. He has served on the tive of the Year awards. bringing his control of the team billion earlier this month, board of trustees for several www.pabstblueribbon.com to 97 percent. His son Dean now George Argyros, 74, made his community organizations, in - manages the team. Spanos, one fortune in grocery stores and cluding the California Institute ALEX G. SPANOS of the largest single private con - then real estate. of Technology; the Beckman 7. & FAMILY tributors to the Republican Na - He earned his bachelor’s de - Foundation; the Horatio Alger $1.1 BILLION REAL ESTATE, tional Party during Presidential gree at Chapman University. A Association; and Chapman Uni - PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL election years, helped to raise second-generation American of versity. He owned baseball’s Alex G. Spanos, 88, owns the over $2 million for Senator John Greek descent, he was born in Seattle Mariners between 1980 National Football League’s San McCain’s 2008 Presidential bid. Detroit, MI and raised in and 1989. In January, he be - Diego Chargers. His family is President Bush appointed Pasadena, CA. He went into real came a member of the Board of ranked 1075th among the Spanos to the Kennedy Center estate in 1962, selling land at Regents of the Orange County world’s billionaires by Forbes. board in 2004. Spanos has also busy intersections to oil compa - Council Boy Scouts of America. His fortune increased since contributed millions to schools, nies to set up gas stations. To - In April 2011, he and his wife 2004, and then dropped some hospitals and charity. He re - day, his privately held Arnel & made a $5 million gift to an am - with the recent plunge in the ceived the Medal of the Com - venture capital firm focusing on Affiliates owns and manages bulatory surgery center at the eraged 44% returns over a real estate market. The rising mander of the Order of Honor the healthcare industry. 5,500 apartments and 2 million University of California. He is twenty year period.” In early value of the Chargers – now from Greek President Karolos He is married to Mary Ja - square feet of commercial space. an Archon of the Patriarchate’s 2000, Metropoulos acquired In - worth $920 million (purchased Papoulias in 2008. haris who attended Northwest - Argyros founded the private eq - Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. ternational Home Foods, a sub - for $70 million in 1984) - has Spanos now lets his kids run ern University and graduated uity firm Westar Capital in Argyros is married with three sidiary of Wyeth, which in - offset the real estate losses. In the business these days, and from the Art Institute of children, and enjoys sailing, ski - cluded Chef Boyardee, PAM 2008, Forbes listed A.G. Spanos said he likes to play cards with Chicago. Proud supporters of ing and hunting. cooking spray, Bumble Bee tuna, Companies as the 403rd largest his friends. “What the heck. I’m Hellenism, he and his wife are www.arnel.com Jiffy Pop popcorn and Gulden’s privately held firm in the coun - 85 years old, and my kids are major benefactors of the New mustard. Forty percent of the try, with estimated revenues of doing a good job. It’s their turn York Metropolitan Museum of C. DEAN business first went public, and $1.13 billion. now,” he told TNH in 2009. In Art, Art Institute of Chicago and 6. METROPOULOS subsequently 100% was sold to 2002, Spanos published his au - also support many cultural, re - $1.2 BILLION ConAgra in 2000 for $2.9 bil - tobiography entitled Sharing the ligious, higher education, and MANAGEMENT, lion. Wealth: My Story. He and his healthcare institutions though ACQUISITIONS Born in Greece, his family wife Faye (who celebrated 63 the Jaharis Family Foundation, Dean Metropoulos, 65, is moved to America when he was years of marriage in 2011) have Inc. In October 2010, the Mary very well known in the private nine years of age. In Watertown, four children, 15 grandchildren Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art equity, investment banking and MA, his father Jimmy worked at and three great grandsons. and Culture was inaugurated at financial community, having the Star Market and later owned http://agspanos.com Hellenic College – Holy Cross spent the past two decades ac - a restaurant in Newton called Greek Orthodox Theological quiring, restructuring and grow - Cabot. THE CALAMOS Seminary which will serve as a ing numerous businesses in the Metropoulos went to college 8. FAMILY premier international research U.S., Mexico and Europe. Many on a scholarship, and after grad - $1 BILLION MUTUAL FUNDS center. of these were subsequently uate school at Babson College John P. Calamos, Sr., 70, Jaharis also serves as Trustee taken public or sold to strategic and a year and a half towards earned both his bachelor’s de - Emeritus of Tufts University in corporations. He was chairman his doctorate at Columbia, he gree in economics and his MBA Boston, MA, Chairman of the & CEO of Pinnacle Foods, the went to work for the GTE Cor - from the Illinois Institute of Board of Overseers for the parent company of iconic poration, which is now Verizon. Technology. A son of Greek im - School of Medicine, Tufts Uni - brands such as Duncan Hines, After graduate school migrants, he is a product of versity, Member of the Columbia Vlasic and Mrs. Paul’s. Pinnacle Metropoulos joined GTE Inter - Chicago public schools, and University Medical Center Board 1987. He is a board member was purchased by the Black - national and became its grew up above his family’s gro - of Visitors, and Member of the and the leading investor, with a stone Group for more than youngest senior vice president The son of Greek immi - cery store on Chicago’s west Board of Overseers of the Weill reported 20%, in software de - $2.26 billion in 2007. He is responsible for their interna - grants, Spanos received his side. He developed his passion Cornell Medical College and velopment firm DST Systems #359 on Forbes’ 400 Richest tional business in 62 countries. bachelor’s degree at Pacific for the stock market as a Graduate School of Medical Sci - (NYSE:DST) whose market cap - Americans list. Other well known businesses Lutheran University. He began teenager after investing his par - ences. italization is about $2.15 billion. Metropoulos is Chairman & in which C. Dean Metropoulos his career as a baker, but when ents’ $5,000 nest egg. He is the Vice Chairman of Former President George W. CEO of C. Dean Metropoulos & & Company were investors and his business nearly went bank - After earning his MBA, he be - the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Bush appointed him U.S. am - Co., a boutique buyout and operators included Mumm and rupt, he opted for a change in came an early authority on con - of America and is one of the bassador to Spain in 2001, after management firm. The firm fo - Perrier Jouet Champagnes of direction. In 1951 he used an vertible securities, and launched Original Founders of Leadership leading GOP fundraising efforts cuses on the acquisition and op - France, Stella Foods, the Morn - $800 loan to purchase a small an investment outfit that even - 100 and FAITH: An Endowment in California in 2000. He hosted eration of companies with con - ingstar Group, Ghirardelli trucking company, which he tually became Calamos Asset for Hellenism and Orthodoxy. a $25,000-per-couple dinner for sumer brand products, and has Chocolate Company, Del Monte turned into a successful enter - Management in 1977. His He states, “It is particularly U.S. Senator and then-presiden - been involved in more than 70 Mexico and National Water - prise. He then used his profits money management firm serves important to Mary and me to tial hopeful John McCain (R-Ari - acquisitions involving over $12 works. He owns Castle on the to invest in real estate, and by institutional clients and man - give back to institutions which zona) at his home in 2008. Ar - billion in invested capital since Hudson boutique hotel. 1960, he had an incorporated ages mutual funds. The com - have truly inspired us and may gyros also served on the Federal 1993. He says: “I love finding In 2010, he made waves with business. Today, his firm is one pany provides money manage - help open doors for young peo - Home Loan Mortgage Corpora - opportunities, negotiating the the purchase of Pabst Brewing of America’s largest housing de - ment services to major ple and the community. We be - tion under President George deals, and repositioning the Co. for $250 million. Metropou - velopers, and is the largest fam - corporations, institutions, pen - lieve that our Hellenic culture H.W. Bush. companies into vibrant, growing los attributes some of the most ily-owned construction and sion funds, insurance companies and Orthodox faith provided the Argyros resides in a mansion businesses.... If we’re proud of successful ideas of turning property management company and individuals. The company foundation for our values and (reportedly recently expanded) anything, it’s that we have never around and reinventing the in the United States. It has built went public in 2004. identity.” on Harbor Island in Newport lost money with any of our ac - many well-known brands to the more than 100,000 units in 19 The Jaharises reside in New Bay, CA. He is a recognized busi - quisitions in which we have av - out-of-the- box thinking and ex - states. Continued from page 6

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Continued from page 7 tional Hellenic Museum, of 1973. He also chaired the Fed - Artemis. His four-year appren - lizing previously insoluble which he is a major benefactor. eral Reserve Bank of New York ticeship began in 1952, at age chemicals and making them sta - Calamos is chairman, CEO He says of the museum: “We from 2000 to 2004. He is the 14, grinding pigments and mix - ble for medical use. and Co-CIO of Calamos Invest - have built a national institution author of several books (includ - ing paints, learning about tech - After completing his military ments, which he runs along with to honor our parents and grand - ing 2010 memoir The Education nique and studying composi - service, Behrakis began his ca - his nephew Nick and his son parents, to honor our rich Hel - of an American Dreamer), and tion. While studying with reer at McNeil Laboratories (a John. A much-lauded money - lenic history.” speaks frequently about issues Artemis, Andreas also discov - division of Johnson & Johnson). man over the last few years, www.calamos.com of fiscal responsibility. Peterson ered and was inspired by the In 1968, he founded Dooner Calamos was worth $2.7 billion now dedicates his time to his paintings of Constantine Laboratories which developed five years ago, according to KOSTA & TOM foundation and other charitable Parthenes, a progressive artist and manufactured a leading Forbes. Though the 2008 finan - 8. KARTSOTIS activities. Established in 2008, who spurned tradition. In 1967, asthma medication, Slophyllin cial crisis struck his industry a $1 BILLION WATCHES the Peter G. Peterson Founda - a tyrannical regime led by Col. and Slobid. He sold the com - blow, he is recovering nicely LEATHER ACCESSORIES tion is a nonpartisan organiza - George Papadopoulos seized pany to Rhone-Poulenc Rorer with $33.7 billion under man - Kosta Kartsotis, 59, is CEO & tion dedicated to increasing power in Greece, and Andreas, (now Aventis) and purchased agement at the end of 2011. Chairman of Fossil Inc., and public awareness of the nature by now a distinguished military ophthalmic firm Muro Pharma - Calamos also has a private real Tom Kartsotis, 52, former chair - and urgency of key fiscal chal - officer, moved to New York. ceuticals in 1978. Behrakis sold estate arm, Calamos Real Estate man and CEO of the company. lenges threatening America’s fu - Since then, he has divided his eye care products to Bausch LLC, which includes Hotel Fossil is based in Richardson, ture, and to accelerating action his time between his studios in and Lomb and searched for new Arista, CityGate Centre and Texas. It sells products in 120 on them. Virginia, Florida, and New York products, including pharmaceu - countries around the world. In He’s among the U.S. billion - City. Over 40 years, he has made ticals for asthma and allergies. 2010 stock prices more than aires who decided to take the over 140 oil works and 1,000 doubled for the company, with Giving Pledge in 2010 to give works on paper, yet Andreas has a 40% increase in global sales. much of their wealth to charity. established several policies for Kosta Kartsotis holds a 9.4 % aires. Peter G. Peterson, 85, has The Giving Pledge was initiated himself regarding his art and his share in the company. Forbes moved down in this list as his by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates dealings with the art world: He tallied his earnings at $21 mil - donations have gone up. He’s Jr. has intentionally not sold an lion in just a week last year, not - listed in Forbes earlier this Peterson now resides in New original piece since 1993. His ing that he held some $655 mil - month as 1,153rd of the world’s York. He is married to Joan Monographia, a collection of 18 lion of the stock – and his billionaires. He made his for - Ganz Cooney, founder and for - lithographs, is available for pur - brother, “a mere $389 million tune as the co-founder and for - mer chairman of Children’s Tele - chase. Andreas is working on worth of Fossil stock.” mer chairman of the Blackstone vision Workshop (“Sesame several significant new projects, Founded by Tom Kartsotis in Group, one of the world’s largest Street”), and is the father of to include one called Smash the 1984, Fossil is a designer and private investment firms with five. System, consisting of at least manufacturer of clothing and 19 offices around the world. www.pgpf.org twelve paintings and video. This accessories, primarily watches Peterson co-founded Black - body of work will be a reflection and jewelry, but also sunglasses stone with Stephen Schwarz - GEORGE of a social criticism of the Anar - and wallets. Its brands include man in 1985 with $400,000; the 11. ANDREAS chist movement over time. Fossil, Relic, Abacus, Michele firm’s private equity funds own $975 MILLION ART, REAL Art is not the only compo - Watch and Zodiac. Fossil or have interests in 54 compa - ESTATE, INVESTMENTS nent of his fortune. Among sev - watches are common in middle- nies. The company went public A painter and investor in real eral other business ventures, he income retail stores, as well as in June 2007 at $31 a share. Af - estate among other businesses, has substantial real estate as - at most department stores. Fos - ter a drop in share values with George Andreas (Andreopoulos) sets. He has also owned and op - sil also branched into the sale a crisis in the private equity in - was born in Athens in 1938. Be - erated many successful car deal - other entities that surround the of leather goods and other ac - dustry, they have stabilized at fore studying at the Greek Mili - erships, employing hundreds, investment company’s head - cessories in the 1990’s. Fossil about $15 as we went to press. tary Academy, he was an ap - one of which was ranked the Behrakis sold the firm to Asta- quarters in Naperville, IL. He also designs, manufactures and Peterson retired from the com - prentice to Greek portrait and second most profitable dealer - Medica AG, a division of Ger - has written two books, writes distributes with Burberry, DKNY, pany in late 2008, receiving landscape artist Constantine ship in the country. Andreas’ man conglomerate Degussa, re - for investment industry publica - Emporio Armani, Columbia $1.85 billion in cash upon exit - wife Ursula assists him in all of tiring as president & CEO in tions and is interviewed regu - Sportswear, Diesel, Michael ing, before taxes and meeting his endeavors. He has one son, 1998. larly by CNBC and Bloomberg Kors, Marc Jacobs and Adidas. several trust and charitable Christopher, a daughter-in-law, Behrakis is the son of Greek TV. Fossil also produces collectibles, obligations. At year’s end, Black - Andrita, and two grandchildren. immigrants. He and his wife Calamos was the first mem - some of which are based on stone was managing $166 bil - www.andreasstudio.com Margo have established chairs ber in his family to graduate popular films or pop culture lion in total assets. The com - and scholarships at various uni - from college. He served in the characters. It made news in pany’s recent acquisitions GEORGE D. versities and medical centers. In U.S. Air Force, flying the B-52 2011 by acquiring competitor include the Anheuser-Busch In - 12. BEHRAKIS 2003 Northeastern University Bomber, as a combat pilot in Skagen Designs. Bev’s U.S. theme parks ($2.7 bil - $930 MILLION and Medical Center opened the Vietnam and as a Forward Air The company now offers lion in 2009) and Hilton Hotels PHARMACEUTICALS Behrakis Health Science Build - Controller. He later spent ten smart watches that would link ($26 billion in 2007). George D. Behrakis, 77, is ing and also created the Center years in the USAF Reserves fly - to phones via Bluetooth. The son of Greek immi - founder and chairman of for Drug Discovery. ing the A-37 jet fighter and Tom Kartsotis also owns the grants, Mr. Peterson grew up in Mythos, LLC, a private invest - A recipient of many awards earning the rank of Major. He Texas company Bedrock Brands. Nebraska. He studied at North - ment company based in Lexing - for his contributions to business, keeps his aviation skills honed www.fossil.com western University, where he ton, MA. He is also chairman of science, the arts and the Greek by flying his Marchetti SF260 graduated summa cum laude, Gainesborough Investments, Orthodox Church, he sits on the Warbird. He credits his Air Force PETER G. and earned his MBA from the launched in 1998. A 1957 grad - board of The Boston Symphony time for sharpening his risk as - 8. PETERSON University of Chicago. He was uate of Northeastern University, Orchestra and is emeritus chair - sessment skills. $1 BILLION ALTERNATIVE CEO of Bell and Howell from Behrakis also studied at Boston man of Northeastern University. He is a member of the Invest - INVESTMENTS 1963 to 1971. He served as Sec - University, and is a recognized He has served on many boards ment Analysts Society of In 2010 he was ranked retary of Commerce under Pres - leader in the pharmaceutical in - of both public and private com - Chicago and is on the board of 182nd among the Forbes 400 ident Nixon, and became chair - dustry. He became best known, panies. He is on the advisory directors of Chicago’s new Na - and 488th at the World's Billion - man of Lehman Brothers in perhaps, for his talent in solubi - board of the Harvard School of

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He has built www.almabank.com school days, when his uncle, lish when he first enrolled at the Boston Marathons; Sakellaris a diverse portfolio over the last John Zaroulis, took him to see University of Maine-Orono, but also competes in sailing, with three decades including multi- JOHN the galleries. Later, Behrakis worked his way through college his Mini-Max boat Shockwave family residential buildings, 15. PAYIAVLAS would host parties at the Mu - and earned a B.S.E.E. degree, frequently placing in sailing re - commercial buildings, ground- $650 MILLION FOOD seum. He became a member in driven by a love of mathematics gattas. He lives in Milton, MA, up construction of residential INDUSTRY 1989, a patron in 1996, and an and the sciences. His parents ar - with his wife, Cathy, and chil - and commercial buildings and John Payiavlas is chairman overseer in 1998. Then, one day rived in the U.S. in 1969 and dren, Christina and Peter. a retail shopping center. Alma of AVI Foodsystems, the coun - in 2001, Behrakis showed up for the family settled in Boston. He www.ameresco.com Realty also owns and manages try’s largest independent, fam - lunch with MFA Director Mal - then worked at local utility New over 10,000 apartments of mar - ily-owned and-operated con - colm Rogers and handed him a England Electrical Systems EFSTATHIOS ket and affordable housing tract food service company, sealed envelope. Inside was a (NEES), earning an M.B.A. and 14. (STEVE) properties in New York and New providing vending, institutional check for $2 million to endow M.S.E.E. from Northeastern Uni - VALIOTIS Jersey as well as over 5 million dining and coffee service oper - Christine Kondoleon’s position versity along the way. Then, $750 MILLION REAL ESTATE square feet of commercial prop - ations. as curator of Greek & Roman Sakellaris explains, “in 1979, Efstathios Valiotis, 65, is erty. He is committed to invest - Art. He has given $25 million to while working for New England president and founder of the As - ing and improving communities the museum since 2006 and the Electric, NEES Management toria-based Alma Realty Corpo - by pro- viding safe and well- museum now has the new wanted to establish a company ration, one of the largest real maintained George D. and Margo Behrakis efficiency for federal, state and to promote energy efficiency to estate firms in the New York residential and commercial Wing, which houses Greek, Ro - local governments, healthcare avoid the need to build new metropolitan area. He was born developments. Valiotis estab - man and Egyptian Galleries. and educational institutions, generation plants. They asked in Vordonia, Greece near Sparta, lished his construction company, In 2010, Mr. Behrakis gave a housing authorities, and com - me to lead that initiative and I and immigrated to the United Vordonia Construction Corpora - $1.8 million grant to a Harvard mercial and industrial cus - welcomed the challenge.” States in 1972. He worked in tion, in 1988, which serves as University School of Public tomers. The subsidiary he launched the food industry and, within the general contractor for the Health study on smoking in One of its notable projects in - was called NEES Energy. Then two years, purchased a news - majority of his projects. Vordo - Greece. In 2011, the 50-year- clude the recently completed in 1990, Mr. Sakellaris pur - stand and a food mart followed nia Contracting and Supplies member of AHEPA was honored Department of Energy Savannah chased NEES Energy and it be - Corp. is another subsidiary of with the organization’s Arch - River Site Biomass Cogeneration came the energy conservation ALMA. bishop Iakovos Humanitarian Project in Aiken, SC, which at company he re-named In 1989, Valiotis, along with Award in Orange, CT. $795 million is the largest re - NORESCO. In 1997, he sold several other investors, formed Behrakis, a former president newable energy savings perfor - that industry-leading indepen - Marathon National Bank. He of the Holy Trinity Greek Ortho - mance contract in the United dent energy services company served as chairman of the bank’s dox Church in Lowell, M.A., is States. Ameresco also recently to Equitable Resources (EQT), board of directors and as a a member of the Archdiocesan announced an agreement with a Fortune 500 company. Sakel - member for ten years. Marathon Council’s Executive Committee, the Philadelphia Water Depart - laris continued to lead was acquired by Piraeus Na - and an Archon of the Ecumeni - ment to design, build and main - NORESCO and was appointed tional Bank of Greece in 1999. cal Patriarchate. He is Chairman tain an innovative wastewater as a Senior Vice President of Eq - In 2007, he formed Alma Bank, Emeritus of Leadership 100. biogas-to-energy facility. uitable Resources. In January in which he is a majority share - Behrakis also publishes the Hel - Ameresco prides itself in go - 2000, he left EQT and three holder. He serves as Chairman Payiavlas, the son of immi - lenic Voice. He and his wife ing beyond just conservation to months later founded Ameresco. of the Advisory Board. The grants, traces his companies be - Margo have been married for 50 address its customers’ entire en - Sakellaris is a Distinguished bank, created with the highest ginning to purchasing a few years and have four children ergy system, including supply Member Inductee of the Frances capital investment in a NY State vending machines for the fam - and nine grandchildren. and demand, energy efficiency Crowe Society at the University commercial bank, is rapidly ex - ily’s Village Café in his home - www.thehellenicvoice.com and renewable energy. of Maine, which gave him the panding, with ten branches and town of Warren, OH. Founded Sakellaris has this to say Edward T. Bryand Distinguished several more branches to come. in 1960, AVI currently employs GEORGE about his sustainability busi - Engineer Award in 2007. His The bank started with $50 mil - thousands, serves millions of 13. SAKELLARIS ness: “We have a sharp focus on awards include winning an lion in capital and in four years consumers daily, and serves $800 MILLION ENERGY, our customers’ needs for com - Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of has grown to $750 million in some of the most prestigious in - ENVIRONMENT prehensive energy efficiency ser - The Year 2011 New England gross assets. stitutions in America, including Born in Vassara in Laconia, vices and budget-neutral solu - award. Valiotis earned his degree in industry, corporate headquarters Greece, George Sakellaris, 65, tions, particularly in today’s Among his support for nu - by a pizzeria. His next venture Theology from the University of complexes, universities, school heads one of the largest energy environment of aging infrastruc - merous educational institutions was establishing a custom-made Athens. He is a major supporter systems and healthcare facilities solutions companies in North ture and budgetary constraints. in Massachusetts and Maine is furniture business, Knossos Inc., of the St. Demetrios Cathedral throughout the Midwestern and America. His company As an entrepreneurial, technol - establishing an endowment at in Astoria in 1976. Within two and School in Astoria. Valiotis Eastern United States. Their Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC), ogy-agnostic company, UMass Lowell in memory of his years, the business expanded to is a big benefactor too of the clients include Carnegie Mellon which is based in Framingham, Ameresco is in the best position mentor, the late Senator Paul include two retail display stores Holy Cross Greek Orthodox University, Eastman Kodak, MA, specializes in providing en - to offer our customers the opti - Tsongas. He is a member of the on Manhattan’s Park Avenue Church, School and Community Good Year, Honda of America ergy efficiency, infrastructure mum solutions to suit their re - Faith Endowment and Leader - and Sixth Avenue and a furni - Center in Whitestone; the Manufacturing, Kmart, Kraft upgrades, and renewable en - quirements.” He continues, “Be - ship 100, an Archon of the Or - ture-manufacturing factory in church’s Efstathios and Sta - Foods, Ohio State University, ergy solutions. George Sakel - ing in the service business 'you der of St. Andrew and a major Queens. Mr. Valiotis owned and matiki Valiotis Greek American Phillips, Toyota Motor Manufac - laris, President and CEO as well are as good as your people.' We benefactor of his local church, actively managed Knossos until School was named after himself turing, University of Pittsburgh as Chairman of the Board of Di - always strive to hire and retain Saint Catherine’s Greek Ortho - 1994. and his wife. Mr. Valiotis never Medical Center, UPS, the U.S. rectors of Ameresco, founded the best in our field.” dox Church. In 1978 he began his highly forgot his roots and hometown Postal Service, Toyota Motor the company in 2000. Today it The company’s revenues con - Sakellaris served as a found - successful career investing in and he financed and built a Manufacturing, Verizon, and Xe - has 62 offices in 34 states and tinued to climb in 2011. In No - ing member of the National As - real estate. Since then, Valiotis’ T.E.I. (technical college) in his rox. Intensely private, Payiavlas five Canadian provinces and vember, they announced that sociation of Energy Service expertise in acquisition and de - hometown of Sparta, which also runs the company along with employs more than 900 profes - their total revenues for 2011, Companies (NAESCO). He is a velopment has included the pur - bears his name and currently his son Anthony and his daugh - sionals. “Green. Clean. Sustain - $728.2 million, were up 17.8% former President of NAESCO chase, sale, construction and enrolls 2,000 students. A firm ter Patrice (Patsy). Based in able” is the motto of the com - over the previous year’s, with a and still an active member. In management of both residential believer in education, he sup - pany that increases energy net income improvement of 2005, he was invited to join the and commercial properties. In ports various educational insti - Continued on page 10 10 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 The 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America List

Continued from page 9 ated from the University of also boosted the Capitals’ atten - sity in St. Louis School of Medi - Iowa’s College of Business Ad - dance and revenues. cine as chairman of its Biologi - Warren, AVI has more than 50 ministration in 1952. Through - Leonsis was born to a family cal Chemistry Department. branch offices in the Midwest - out his career as a venture cap - of modest means in Brooklyn, The author of several books ern and Eastern United States, italist, he has been an early and spent his early years there. and more than 100 scientific pa - and makes $2 billion in sales investor in over 100 investment His family moved back to his pers, he was elected to the annually. firms dedicated to advancing mother’s hometown of Lowell, American Academy of Arts & Payiavlas and his wife the biomedical and biotechnol - MA. He graduated from Lowell Sciences and the National Acad - Marissa were honored in 2006 ogy industries. High School in 1973 and at - emy of Sciences in 1972, and to with the Cleveland Clinic’s Dis - He and his wife Mary, who tended Georgetown University. the American Philosophical So - tinguished Fellow Award. Payi - have one daughter, have part - After graduating in 1977, he ciety in 1993. After retiring from avlas traces his origins to the is - nered in philanthropic endeav - moved back to his parents’ Merck, Vagelos was chairman of land of Chios. He is a Life-Time ors, which have provided mil - home in Lowell and began the University of Pennsylvania’s Chairman of the Archbishop lions for scholarships, business working for Wang Laboratories. Board of Trustees from 1994 to Iakovos Leadership 100 Endow - opportunities and community In 1980, Leonsis started his own 1999, having served as a trustee ment Fund and an Archon of the enhancements. His charitable company, which grew quickly, since 1988. He was also presi - Ecumenical Patriarchate. donations include the John & and sold it to International dent & CEO of the American www.avifoodsystems.com Mary Pappajohn Clinical Cancer Thompson for $60 million in School of Classical Studies in Center, and Pappajohn Entrepre - 1981. He then started Redgate, Athens from 1999 to 2001, and JAMES S. neurial Centers at five Iowa uni - which he sold to AOL in 1993, served on the National Research 16. CHANOS versities and colleges. To date, commencing his relationship Council Committee on Science $600 MILLION INVESTMENT over 99,625 college students with once-pervasive AOL, com - & Technology for Countering James S. Chanos, 54, is the have taken part in the latter, pleting his tenure as the audi - Terrorism in 2002. Much of his founder and president of group. In 1995, at the age of which have sparked 3,680 new ence group’s president and vice wealth came from stock options Angelo is founder of AKT Devel - Kynikos Associates, the world’s 20, he became its CEO. Under businesses. In 2009, the Pappa - chairman before stepping down at Merck, which was very prof - opment Corporation, now biggest short-selling hedge fund. his leadership, Lomar expanded john Scholarship Foundation in 2006. itable under his leadership. Dur - headed by his son, Kyriakos, A second-generation Greek- the numbers of ships they distributed $247,750 in grants In 2009, Leonsis joined the ing his tenure there, Merck de - which controls about 40,000 American, Chanos, grew up in owned many times over. Then to support ethnic, disadvan - board of language-learning soft - veloped the acres of land in the region and Milwaukee, WI. His father Lomar sold 67 of them between taged and/or minority students; ware company Rosetta Stone. cholesterol-lowering statins, neighboring San Joaquin owned a chain of dry cleaners 2004 and 2006, investing the over the previous 10 years, the Once the mayor of Orchid, FL, mevacor and zocor. County. in Milwaukee and his mother profits in many non-shipping figure is at over $3.14 million. Leonsis sits on the boards of Vagelos is sometimes called He has also carved out a worked as an office manager at sectors. Finally, in 2009, Lomar In September 2009, the Des Georgetown University, the the father of pharmacophilan - niche for himself as a major a steel company. He founded acquired Allocean Group for Moines Pappajohn Sculpture NBA, the NHL and several char - thropy for freely providing the player in and fundraiser for the Kynikos Associates (in Greek, $325 million, a buy considered Park opened, featuring $40 mil - ities. Among his favorite chari - drug mectizan to cure millions Democratic Party, and as a stan - kynikos means cynic) in 1985 a bargain. Lomar has recently lion of the avid collector cou - ties are the See Forever Foun - of Africans of river blindness. dard bearer for Greek political after a Wall Street career as a started ordering new fuel-effi - ple’s artwork. In December 2010 dation and YouthAIDS. He also His charity work at the Univer - and cultural interests in Amer - financial analyst with Paine cient Ultramax ships made. the Pappajohns pledged $26.4 sponsors his own philanthropic sity of Pennsylvania includes ica. The developer and his chil - Webber, Gilford Securities and The group followed a similar million towards a new Univer - foundation, the Leonsis Founda - sponsoring five scholar- dren have raised and con - Deutsche Bank. Jim Levitas, his patter with its aircraft leasing sity of Iowa biomedical research tion, which is dedicated to cre - ship/study programs as well as tributed millions on national, former boss, partnered with business, Dublin, Ireland-based building. The couple gifted over ating “opportunities for children the $15 million Roy and Diana state and local campaigns and Chanos to launch Kynikos Asso - Lease Corporation International $70 million in 2009. that enable them to reach their Vagelos Laboratories. He also issues over the past decade. De - ciates with $16 million. A year (LCI). The company was Pappajohn is the recipient of highest potential”. supports an incentive program mocratic Presidential candidates later, Levitas, unable to endure launched in 2004, only to sell many prestigious awards, to in - Leonsis has produced docu - for students at his old high aside, a few of the major recipi - the stress of short selling, left its entire 21 aircraft fleet in clude the Horatio Alger Award mentary films including school in Rahway, New Jersey. ents include former California the company. The company’s as - 2007 for $1 billion. The com - (1995), the Ellis Island Medal Nanking (2007). He refers to his The Diana Student Center, re - Governor Gray Davis, U.S. Sen - sets under management are cur - pany would invest in a new fleet of Honor (2000) and the filmmaking endeavors as “fil - named after Mrs. Vagelos, at her ator Dianne Feinstein and House of some 35 aircraft leased to Woodrow Wilson International manthropy,” which uses the alma mater, Barnard College, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. companies including Singapore Center Award for Corporate Cit - medium of documentary films opened in 2010. Vagelos is cur - Tsakopoulos is also dedicated to Airlines, British Airways and Air izenship (2007). He is the first as a matrix for social change. rently chairman of biotech com - advancing the careers of Greek France. In early 2012, LCI Iowan and the second Greek Among the 19 investments pany Regeneron Pharmaceuti - American politicians, including signed a $400 million order American (Pete Peterson was listed on his site is SnagFilms, a cals, whose stocks have more former California state treasurer with AgustaWestland heli - the first) to receive the video distribution platform that than doubled over the previous and once-gubernatorial candi - copters. Woodrow Wilson Award. Pap - was recently backed to the tune year, from $35 to over $75. He date Phil Angelides. His daugh - Libra Group’s real estate pajohn is the recipient of several of $10 million by Comcast and is also chairman of Columbia ter, Eleni Tsakopoulos portfolio spans much of the honorary doctorates. venture capital firm New Enter - University Medical Center’s Kounalakis, is currently U.S. planet, with properties and of - www.pappajohn.com prise Associates (NEA). NEA’s Board of Visitors, and is chairing Ambassador to Hungary. fices in the North and South managing director, Peter Barris, the center’s capital campaign, Tsakopoulos and his family have America, Asia and Europe. Libra TED J. a fellow Greek American also on which has already met its target established Hellenic Studies Group owns and runs a total of 19. LEONSIS this list, was also a founding of $1 billion by 2011. In 2010 chairs at several major Ameri - some 18 hotels. The group’s $590 MILLION COMPUTERS, venture capital investor in an - the couple gave $50 million for can universities across the coun - Grace Hotels brand, which be - MARKETING, other Leonsis investment, the Columbia Medical School try, Georgetown, Stanford and gan on Greek isles, is now found PROFESSIONAL SPORTS Groupon. Together with Steve Center for a new medical and Columbia among them. world-wide –including the new Ted J. Leonsis, 55, is vice Case and Donn Davis, Leonsis graduate education building. Vanderbilt Grace Hotel, in a his - chairman emeritus of America launched a $450 million “speed- Vagelos is married to the former PETER G. toric mansion in Newport, Online. Leonsis is also the up capital” company called Rev - Diana Touliatos. They live in 22. ANGELOS Rhode Island and one in Beijing founder, chairman and majority olution Growth Fund II in De - New Jersey, and have four chil - $500 MILLION LAW, MAJOR alike, plus a hotel spa planned owner of Monumental Sports cember. Its investments include dren and seven grandchildren. LEAGUE BASEBALL for Kennebunkport, ME. and Entertainment, formed in pumping millions into Fedbid, www.regeneron.com Peter G. Angelos, 82, is an In Greece, Libra Group’s Eu - June 2010, as he merged his which allows individuals to sell American trial lawyer and the roEnergy has invested in solar Lincoln Holdings LLC (including items to the government. He’s ANGELO K. current chairman & CEO of Ma - rently $6 billion. Kynikos has of - energy parks and wind farms, the National Hockey League’s also the author of numerous 21. TSAKOPOULOS jor League Baseball’s Baltimore fices in New York and London. while in the U.S. they have in - Washington Capitals, worth an books. He lives in the historic $540 MILLION REAL ESTATE Orioles. He became owner of Chanos has a long history of vested in the biofuels market. estimated $225 million – up by Marwood Estates in Potomac, Angelo K. Tsakopoulos, 75, the Orioles in August 1993, making shrewd predictions hav - Their Greenwood Energy is $28 million over last year - and MD with his wife Lynn and two was born to a farming family in leading a group of investors, in - ing identified several financial based in Green Bay, WI. WNBA’s Washington Mystics) children. the village of Rizes, in Arcadia, cluding prominent Marylanders meltdowns such as Boston The list of group subsidiaries and Washington Sports & Enter - www.tedstake.com, Greece. His father, a butcher, like novelist Tom Clancy, in pur - Chicken, Conesco and Tyco In - includes travel writer/TV host www.snagfilms.com struggled to feed five children. chasing the team for $173 mil - ternational. In 2000 he started Leon Logothetis’ Principal Me - He first came to the United lion, a record price at the time. investigating Enron Corpora - dia, which has provided TV pro - P. ROY States in August 1951, sailing According to Forbes, the Ori - tion. In 2001, predicting the gramming since 2005. Other of 20. VAGELOS, M.D. past the Statue of Liberty on his oles were worth $411 million in company’s financial problems, the subsidiaries run from Eagle $550 MILLION 15th birthday. As a college stu - 2010 (up from $376 million the he became Enron’s short seller. Eye Protection, providing Euro - PHARMACEUTICALS, dent at Sacramento State Uni - previous year). The Orioles en - By the time the Enron scandal pean forest fire detection soft - HEALTHCARE versity, he waited tables at night joyed some success early under was public, Kynikos Associates ware, to Chios Heritage mastic Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, 82, served in the Tony Del Prado restaurant Angelos’ ownership, making the profited greatly. Financial mag - tree farm investments. Libra as CEO of Merck & Co., the and sold real estate on week - postseason as a wild card team azine Barron’s mentioned his Capital is the in-house invest - pharmaceutical giant, from ends. He would eventually leave in 1996 and winning the Amer - early prediction of Enron’s fall ment management company 1985 to 1994. He joined the Sac State a few credits shy of ican League East Division title as “the market call of the and Libra Group Services, the worldwide health products firm graduation to work full time. At in 1997. But manager Davey decade, if not the past fifty in-house legal and administra - in 1975 as senior vice president 21 years of age, he had already Johnson resigned after the 1997 years.” Later on, he successfully tive and corporate support com - of research, and became presi - stockpiled experiences likely un - season, and 14 straight losing predicted Sotheby’s stock drop pany service to companies dent of its research division in fathomable to many of his fel - seasons ensued. In 2005, the –it plummeted between Novem - within the group based in the 1976; starting in 1982, he low undergraduates: war, depri - Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, ber 2007 from $57 to $10. In U.K. served as senior vice president vation, emigration and stints as co-owned by the Orioles and the March 2006, Chanos created the Logothetis and his wife of strategic planning. He con - both a shoeshine boy in Chicago Washington Nationals, took off. Coalition of Private Investment Nitzia (formerly Nitzia Embiri - tinued to hold both positions and a farmhand in Lodi. And he It has 6 million subscribers. Companies, an organization cos) are based in New York City until 1984, when he was elected had begun laying the ground - aiming at promoting hedge and have a son. In 2011, the executive vice president. work for his future, arguably be - funds in Washington. Recently, group created an International Before assuming broader re - coming the most significant the lobbying group has shifted Internship Program in collabo - sponsibilities of business lead - force to shape Sacramento since its attention to Europe. ration with The American Col - ership, Vagelos had won scien - John Sutter. He boxed in col - He appears regularly in the lege of Greece in Athens and the tainment Limited Partnership. tific recognition as an authority lege. His former boxing team - American media giving financial US-based Greek America Foun - To create the new company, on lipids and enzymes, and as a mates say the elements of his advices and predictions. He has dation, giving 20 young people Leonsis purchased the remain - research manager. This followed larger-than-life persona were long been considered a “media the opportunity to work at the ing 56% of Washington Sports a decision early in his career to present even in the days when operator” with a strong relation - group’s key locations around the & Entertainment that he didn’t put his principal energies into he was studying business, phi - ship with journalists that respect world. own, giving him full ownership research, rather than the prac - losophy, and history under the and promote his ideas. He con - www.libra.com over the National Basketball As - tice of medicine. Vagelos, whose Americanized surname of tinues to regularly declare that sociation’s Washington Wizards, parents were born in Asia Minor Chicos, a name he later dropped China’s economy will crash. JOHN the Verizon Center and the Bal - and immigrated to the US in the to reclaim his family name. Chanos is a graduate of Yale 16. PAPPAJOHN timore-Washington Ticketmas - 1920s, earned his bachelor’s de - Tsakopoulos has since University, where he studied $600 MILLION VENTURE ter franchise. Monumental gree with honors in 1950 from climbed to prominence through economics. He has four chil - CAPITALISM Sports and Entertainment also the University of Pennsylvania. uncommon business acumen dren. John Pappajohn, 83, is pres - operates Kettler Capitals Iceplex He was awarded a MD from Co - and sheer tenacity. He turns on ident of Equity Dynamics and and George Mason University lumbia University in 1954. After the charm with politicians, plays GEORGE M. Pappajohn Capital Resources, of Patriot Center. an internship and residency at hardball with environmental 16. LOGOTHETIS* which he is also sole proprietor. After surviving an airplane Massachusetts General Hospital regulators, and promotes big $700 MILLION Equity Dynamics is a financial crash landing in 1983, he in Boston (1954-56), he joined ideas for the region. In recent SHIPPING/AVIATION/REAL consulting entity; Pappajohn drafted a list of 101 things to the National Institutes of Health years, he’s offered to donate ESTATE Capital Resources is a venture do in life, and has completed 82 in Bethesda, MD. At NIH (1956- farmland he controls in Placer George M. Logothetis, 37, is capital firm. of the tasks; his $1 billion net 66), he served in the National County for a private university, Angelos was born in Pitts - the founding Chairman and Pappajohn first came from worth aim may be realized in a Heart Institute, holding posi - and to help fund its construction burgh on July 4, 1929. He came CEO of Libra Group, consisting Evia, Greece to the United few years. (See the list at tions in cellular physiology and by developing adjacent acreage. to Baltimore at 11 years of age. of 30 subsidiaries with compa - States when he was just nine www.tedstake.com.) biochemistry – first as Senior He has proposed that the region He is a graduate of Eastern Col - nies operating out of 20 offices months old. His father died Few people have roots as Surgeon, and then as head of open thousands of acres of lege and the University of Balti - worldwide. when he was 16 years of age, deep in the computer industry, section of Comparative Bio - ranchland he controls along the more School of Law, where he He founded the privately- and he had to work to pay his or as much knowledge and ex - chemistry. In 1966, Vagelos Sacramento-El Dorado County was class valedictorian, and owned group with his brother way through college. He gradu - perience of its history and po - joined the Washington Univer - line for development, using went onto a lucrative career in Constantine M. Logothetis in tential. A pioneer of the Internet some of those proceeds to fund trial law, specializing in cases 2003. Today George Logothetis and new media, Leonsis partic - a new arena for the NBA’s involving harmful products, pro - is based in New York, while his ipated in launches of the Apple Sacramento Kings. He also fessional malpractice, and per - brother, the Executive Vice MacIntosh, the IBM PC and the grows wine grapes in Borden sonal injury. Chairman of the Group, is based Wang office automation. He has Ranch and walnuts at an or - His firm, the Law Offices of in London. led four businesses that have chard outside Wheatland. Peter G. Angelos, has attorneys The diversified group was grown at record rates: He built In late 2010, the family pur - and locations in Maryland, built upon the decades of work Wang WP (the first word proces - chased Conaway Ranch, a Delaware, and Pennsylvania. of their father, shipowner sor) from a $200 million to a 17,244 property of farming and Angelos began working as a Michalis G. Logothetis, who is $1 billion company with the ranching land as well as wet - criminal defense lawyer follow - on the Libra Group’s board and largest female management lands and water resources west ing graduation. For most of his is a senior advisor. A series of team in the country. He was of Sacramento. The Sacramento legal career, he was a successful strategic steps by the younger founder & CEO of Redgate Com - Bee reported the family already attorney representing Baltimore generation allowed them to ex - munications Corporation, con - held 18,000 acres of farmland labor unions and their members tend into new areas at a time sidered the first new media mar - and vineyards and 40,000 acres through his own private prac - when many shipping companies keting company. He built AOL of cattle grazing land in North - tice, which he founded in 1961. are strained. into the first $1 billion interac - ern California. Beginning in the 1980s, he re - George M. Logothetis tive services company and the Tsakopoulos’ older brother fashioned his firm’s focus from launched his career at the family world’s biggest media company, George, who passed away in criminal law to civil class action business in London in 1993, helping to increase its member - 2009, followed him to Sacra - suits. His law firm and wealth when he joined Lomar Shipping, ship from fewer than 800,000 mento, and also went into real expanded exponentially in the group’s UK-based shipping to more than 8 million in a four- estate. George’s family controls owning and management year span (1994-97). He has thousands of acres in the region. Continued on page 15 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA 11 “I’m Infertile ”

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Continued from page 2 ica. other investors. in the world 14 years in a row. Many of Pappajohn’s deals That gives him freedom to “I started out with little money, He just filed a $50 million require him to make decision on make decisions on the spot. “I but we liked art.” Mary Papa - IPO for Cancer Genetics, one of the value of patents, but he said take out my ‘checkie’ book” like john has an interior decorating the leading cancer diagnostics his network enables him to ac - a Greek would say,“ and I write degree from the University of companies in the world. His in - cess very good research. “For a check. That how I can get Minnesota. terest in biomedical firms and free,” he said, “but we recipro - deals and do them fast.” “Neither one of us had art in biotechnology began with his cate.” He lets helpful people into “We are always involved in our homes, nothing on the first big deal and was one of the his deals. He said he always projects,” he says, speaking of walls, but for some reason the first investors in multibillion used his own money and that if his wife, but art is their joint first month we were married we dollar Caremark, the first home he needed more he wouldn’t passion. They have been listed went into an art gallery and health care company in Amer - borrow, rather he’d bring in among the top 200 art collectors bought a $50 painting and we still own it – a painting of the Resurrection.” Mary’s family is from Thebes. He told TNH, “Our fathers had the same story: He went back to his chorio [village] and mar - ried the prettiest girl in town.” But the pattern worked, he said. His mother had a good life and when she was widowed, she didn’t want to get married again and she lived to 98. His in-laws also lived into their 90s, also raising a wonderful family. He and Mary continued to buy art, and then they got in - volved with museums. He is on the Trustee Council of the Na - tional Gallery of Art and a trustee of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Wash - ington DC. He is on the national committee of the Whitney Mu - seum in New York and is a re - tired director of the Des Moines Art Center. Mary is a trustee of the Walker Museum in Min - neapolis and the head of their contemporary art gallery at the Des Moines Art Center. “Once you get involved in the arts you get a pretty good han - dle on it,” the man renowned for his analytical ability and in - Des Moines residents can enjoy artwork from the Pappajohns' tuition said modestly. One sus - collection against the backdrop of their city. pects he has good aesthetic judgment too, but as he does working on deals. He has aver - two other CEOs. “Once I know with his business associates, he aged over 45 percent annually how the CEOs operate, it’s easy can lean on Mary’s gifts. They for 40 years and the formula still for me. I know everything about own 400 pieces. works, although he noted that them, their strengths and weak - In an innovative public-pri - it reflects the fact that he works nesses and it helps me manage vate partnership, two years ago in cutting edge high tech firms, them.” the Pappajohns donated sculp - getting involved very early in He feels his Hellenic roots tures to the Des Moines Art Cen - the process when the potential very strongly and has spent a ter and the city gave him two returns are great. He has a pub - lot of time studying Greece’s sit - blocks downtown for them. lic offering coming up any day uation. Regarding the social un - They gave $40 million worth of now to raise $20 million for an - rest, he said sympathetically, sculpture, and have since added other company. “We would have the same prob - two new pieces, and they will He recently conducted his lem if we cut Social Security 25 send more. third deal with the same CEO. percent and reduced Medicare “He was 27 with the first one 50 percent.” BEYOND IOWA and is now 62. He told me ‘I’ve Pappajohn pointed out recent Pappajohn spends 10-12 got time for one more deal.’” He days per month in New York has done two deals each with Continued on page 22 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA 15 The 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America List

Continued from page 10 were selected by President Car - that is better.” Just last fall, the Together with his partner, olos Papoulias to be honored Karabots gave $7.5 million to William A. Millichap, Marcus 1982, when he represented with the Hellenic Republic’s The Children’s Hospital of launched a new business model 8,500 plaintiffs – the largest prestigious Commander of the Philadelphia for a new pediatric nearly four decades years ago, number of plaintiffs ever - in as - Order of Honor award. Hat - care facility and $10 million to based on matching each prop - bestos litigation and won. He sopoulos is now chairman of The Franklin Institute museum. erty with the largest pool of pre- reportedly made over $100 mil - American DG Energy Inc. To date the foundation has pro - qualified investors. In 2010, lion on this one case. Angelos (ADGE), the leading on-site util - vided over $50 million to many Marcus & Millichap closed was also enormously successful ity he formed with his brother organizations. Nicholas and $13.6 billion in investment in suing Wyeth, the makers of in 2001 offering electricity, heat, Athena Karabots also support transactions for private and in - the diet pill fen-phen, and rep - hot water and cooling to com - the University of Pennsylvania stitutional investors. Included in resenting the state of Maryland mercial, institutional and indus - and the University of Arizona in these transactions were shop - as lead attorney in a lawsuit trial customers. The company, their archaeological excavations ping centers, office and indus - against tobacco company Philip whose stocks were valued re - on Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia, trial buildings, apartment prop - Morris. The agreement had stip - cently at $73 million specializes Greece. erties, hotels/motels, seniors ulated that he would receive in green energy and carbon re - He and wife live in Pennsyl - housing, manufactured home 25% of the recovery, but when ducing solutions. vania and have three daughters communities, and land. it was $4.5 billion, Maryland re - www.americandg.com and 10 grandchildren. Marcus is also chairman of fused to pay; Angelos’ team set - www.amrepcorp.com, Essex Property Trust, a publicly tled for $150 million. It was af - www.kappapublishing.com, held, multi-family real estate in - ter that he became a major NICHOLAS G. www.modernpublishing.com, vestment trust (REIT). Located player in the Baltimore commu - 23. KARABOTS* www.bendonpub.com, pany of a diversified group of in Palo Alto, California and nity. $450 MILLION PUBLISHING, www.jerichonational.biz, real estate, service, investment traded on the New York Stock His law office’s most recent REAL ESTATE winery. www.karamoorwines.com, and development firms. It has Exchange, Essex is a fully inte - massive victory was a July 1 ver - “The issue here is not ulti - Together with his wife of 57 www.lykaionexcavation.org established itself as a leading grated REIT which acquires, de - dict awarding $1.5 billion in mately your net worth, but what years, Athena Dikegoros real estate firm with more than velops and redevelops apart - damages to families and busi - you do with the value you have Karabots, he established the 1,200 brokers in markets ment communities in select nesses whose water was conta - created,” believes Nicholas G. Karabots Foundation. Harkening GEORGE M. throughout the United States. West Coast communities. The minated in 2006 by an Exxon Karabots, 78, owner of Kappa back to his youth in the South 23. MARCUS With 77 offices nationwide, the company, according to its web - Mobil gas leak in Jacksonville, Media Group, Inc. the nation’s Bronx the foundation specializes $450 MILLION REAL ESTATE firm focuses on investment bro - site, currently has ownership in - MD. largest publisher of puzzle mag - in expanding opportunities for George M. Marcus, 69, is kerage, and provides financing terests in 140 apartment com - A lifelong Democrat, he won azines and books. young people in underserved founder and chairman of Mar - and research services to both munities. Marcus is also one of election to the Baltimore City His parents, Konstantina Hri - communities. He told TNH in cus & Millichap Real Estate In - buyers and sellers. The com - the original founders of Plaza Council, and served on the somalis and Georgios Karabot - 2009: “My heart beats for the vestment Services, one of the pany’s closing 4,302 transac - Commerce Bank and Greater Council from 1959 to 1963. He sios, hailed from the Pelopon - small children who are tied to country’s premier providers of tions in 2010 was the highest of Bay Bancorp. Marcus served on ran for mayor as an indepen - nesian villages of Anavriti and poverty and don’t know that investment real estate brokerage any commercial real estate bro - dent in 1964, but lost. He has Argos, respectively. The family there is something out there services, and the parent com - kerage firm. Continued on page 16 been an active supporter of na - name was shortened when his tional Democratic candidates. father arrived on Ellis Island. Locally, in 2006, he publicly sup - Karabots was born in New ported the Republican incum - Jersey and raised in the South bent, Bob Ehrlich, for governor Bronx, and attended the Greek of Maryland and criticizing De - American Institute. After his fa - mocratic candidate (now Gov - ther lost his restaurant business ernor) Martin J. O’Malley. An - in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, gelos has been active in Karabots held his first job at age charitable programs in the city 9, in 1942, as a shoeshine boy and state. He is married, and in Manhattan’s Union Square. has two sons. Angelos enjoys After high school, he entered the horse racing, as an owner of printing industry, learning the thoroughbred horses. He has ropes at an RCA affiliate on Wall given $10 million to his alma Street in 1951 before becoming mater; in return the new law a manager of printing opera - school building that is being tions elsewhere and eventually constructed will bear the name a sales and management posi - of his parents. The now-under tion, offered by a Hellenophile LAW OFFICE construction John and Frances from Austria, who was a manu - Angelos Law Center at the Uni - facturer of printing supplies. In versity of Baltimore is due to 1964, he launched – with a part - open in 2013. ner – the company Phota Inc., of George G. Horiates www.angeloslaw.com, which manufactured X Ray www.masnsports.com, Chemistry and assisted in the www.baltimore.orioles.mlb.com development and importation of Fuji film. In 1970 he acquired a printing company in Scranton, 7905 Browing Road, Cooper Center #212, Pennsauken, NJ 08109 GEORGE N. PA and expanded it via the 23. HATSOPOULO printing and binding of TV S, PH.D Guide among other nationally- Tel.: (856) 665-2085 • Fax: (856) 665-2670 $450 MILLION THERMIONIC known magazines. That com - TECHNOLOGY pany, today known as Kappa Dr. George N. Hatsopoulos, Graphics, LP, celebrates 42 suc - www.njpersonalinjuyattorney.com 84, was awarded at the Novem - cessful years under Karabots’ ber 2009 Boston History & In - ownership and 106 years since novation Awards for “half a cen - its founding. tury of innovations in Today he is Chairman of the environmental quality, health Board of Directors and Chief Ex - The Law Office and safety technologies.” ecutive Officer of Kappa Media Group, Inc., and holds similar positions in his other privately- of George G. Horiates held companies involved with, printing, publishing, product fulfillment, land development, handles various legal matters the country club business and winemaking and is assisted by including: his daughters Andrea, Despina, Constance and Constance’s hus - band Paul. Andrea’s husband Michael is President of Kable • Accidents and Injuries Media and Palm Coast Data sub - sidiaries of AMREP Corporation, • Amputations a publicly-held company in • Assault and Other Intentional Torts which Karabots is a controlling shareholder. • Automobile/Truck/Bus/Train The Greek-born scientist Apart from its huge gamut of wanted to change the way the puzzle magazines and subscrip - Bicycle/Motorcycle Accidents world makes electricity. He and tion services, Kappa Publishing his brother John founded Group, Inc., also publishes • Brain Damage Thermo Electron in 1956 (with wrestling, astrology, games, and • Burns a $50,000 loan from a Greek other specialty magazines. Its shipowner). Thermo Electron affiliated companies offer com - • Construction Site Accidents grew into an international com - mercial and digital printing and pany recognized as a global distribution services while • Dangerous & Defective Equipment leader in environmental moni - Kappa Map Group creates and toring and analysis instruments, distributes both various map & Machinery/Products & Appliances/Toys and a major producer of paper- products. Kappa Books Publish - • Disfigurement recycling equipment, biomedical ers LLC is a publisher and mar - products, alternative-energy sys - keter of children’s activity • Dog Bites tems and other products and books. services related to environmen - The group’s roots were in • Free Damage and Injuries tal quality, health and safety. By Karabots’ purchase of the Scran - 1981, it was ranked 739th ton Lithographing Company in • Head, Neck, and Back Injuries among Fortune’s 1,000 largest 1970, which became Kappa • Inadequate Security industrial firms. By the time it Graphics, and the establishment merged with Fisher Scientific in of a relationship with puzzle • Injuries to Children November 2006, Thermo Elec - book publisher Official Publica - tron was seeing annual revenues tions, which Karabots acquired. • Lead Paint Poisoning of over $2 billion, and employed Kappa acquired several other 11,000 people in 30 countries. publishing companies over the • Liquor Store/Tavern Hatsopoulos’ work led to rapid years and in turn Karabots • Liability/ Paralysis advances in thermionic power founded, in 1990, the Spartan conversion. He retired in 1999, Organization, Inc., which pro - • Slip and Falls but remains chairman emeritus vides management and legal of Thermo Fischer Scientific services to the various Karabots • Sports-related Injuries (NYSE:TMO), which today is affiliates. • Work-related Injuries worth over $20 billion. Since 1993, he has been di - His training began in Greece rector of the Amrep Corporation • Worker’s Compensation Wrongful Death at the National Polytechnic In - (AXR/NYSE), which specializes stitute in Athens. He received in Real Estate and Media Indus - • Criminal Law his bachelor’s (1949), master’s tries such as subscription fulfill - (1950) and doctorate (1956), ment and newsstand distribu - • Drugs Expungements at the Massachusetts Institute of tion services, and is currently • Feloniew Technology, all in Mechanical Vice Chairman of the Board. Engineering. Dr. Hatsopoulos Amrep has developed Rio Ran - • Juvenile has testified at numerous con - cho, New Mexico’s third-largest gressional hearings on national city. • Family Law energy policy and capital forma - There are about 2,000 peo - tion, and has served on many ple employed by Amrep and • Adoptions national committees on energy Karabots’ private companies • Alimony conservation, environmental combined. protection and international ex - Karabots’ real estate interests • Custody Matters/Divorce/ Domestic Violence change. He is also noted for his began with a purchase, in 1980, and Joseph Keenan’s famous of a farm outside of Philadel - Name Changes/ Support / Visitation textbook, Principles of General phia, which led to other acqui - Thermodynamics. sitions, primarily in Pennsylva - • Municipal Court In 1996, Hatsopoulos won nia and the subdivision of these • Disorderly Persons/ DWI/ License Restoration the John Fritz Medal, the high - other assets and eventually the est American award in the en - design and development of Jeri - No Insurance/ Traffic Violations gineering profession. In 2007, cho National Golf Club, Inc. he was one of the nine promi - Karabots also owns the nent Greek-Americans who Karamoor Farm vineyard and 16 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 The 50 Wealthiest Greeks in America List

Continued from page 15 tracted with Stone & Webster gineering at Northwestern. SOTIRIOS (now part of the Shaw Group), He started his career in vari - 28. VAHAVIOLOS Greater Bay’s board of directors a major engineering services ous management positions at $360 MILLION ASSET until it was sold to Wells-Fargo firm, to help build atomic en - General Electric Company. In an PROTECTION SOLUTIONS in 2007 for $1.5 billion. ergy plants. interview with Forbes, he Dr. Sotirios J. Vahaviolos is Marcus came to San Fran - Together with his partner Ian counted his first bosses, while the Founder, Chairman, and cisco from Greece at the age of McLennan, a respected FBI at General Electric, Greg Lie - CEO of Mistras Group, the New four. He completed his under - agent, Rangos cofounded Secu - mandt and Jack Welch as having Jersey-based global provider of graduate studies in Economics rity Bureau Inc., one of the most “the most profound impact” on technology-enabled asset pro - at San Francisco State Univer - prominent security companies his career. He went on to be tection solutions used to evalu - sity in just two and a half years, in the country, in the mid- President and COO of Legent ate the structural integrity, and founded the university’s 1970’s. SBI guarded everything Corporation (LGNT) and Senior safety and efficiency of critical first economics club. He also from banks to shopping centers Vice President of the Systems energy, industrial and public in - served as a member of the to industrial and atomic energy Software Division of UCCEL frastructure. Board of Trustees of the Califor - plants. It grew into a company Corporation (UCE), both of With more than 81 offices in nia State University System in with a license in every state in which experienced profitable ac - 15 countries, Mistras Group pro - 1981-89, and has helped select the Union and eventually was quisitions. vides the majority of their ser - several SFSU presidents. He was sold for more than $40 million. Washington Life Magazine vices to clients on a regular, re - named SFSU Alumnus of the Rangos has three children set his estimated net worth at curring outsourced basis. It year in 1989 and one of its 11 and three grandchildren. He between $300-$500 million in monitors daily such historic Distinguished Centennial founded and directs the John G. 2007. bridges as the Ben Franklin Alumni in 1999. He and his wife Rangos Sr. Family Charitable At NEA Barris took telecom bridge in Philadelphia PA, the Judy helped create SFSU’s In - Trust. Rangos is also the former company $570-million company Severn bridge connecting Eng - ternational Center for the Arts strumental role in inventing president and founder of the Neutral Tandem public in 2007 land and Wales, platforms and He started his career at Ameri - with a $3 million gift. Marcus techniques for recycling bitumi - Congressional Medal of Honor and $590-million Echo Global oil rigs in places including the can Telephone & Telegraph's also helped develop SFSU’s nous byproducts and disposing Foundation, and the founder public in 2009. He is involved North Sea, U.S.-based nuclear Bell Laboratories, where the Greek Studies program, and sewage and sludge. He devel - and former chairman for the In - with NEA affiliates including power plants, and other indus - concept of acoustic emissions chairs its Modern Greek Studies oped methods for liquid indus - ternational Orthodox Christian satellite operator ProtoStar, TV trial plant facilities in countries was developed in the late 1940s. Foundation, which supports the trial waste disposal, and created Charities. He sits on numerous software/hardware company all over the world daily, through When Vahaviolos joined the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair for a resource recovery system that boards, and the Rangos Foun - Hillcrest, recently-gone-public the help of internet based online company in the 1970s, he Modern Greek Studies. converts waste-generated dation supports medical re - Goji Food Solutions, online job monitoring technologies based worked out computerized solu - He is also a graduate of the methane into energy. search at Children's Hospital of recruitment site JobFox, infor - on satellites and other links. In - tions to the long-standing prob - Harvard Business School’s Own - Together with his sons, Alex Pittsburgh, one of the world's mation technology company ternational clients are in the lem of how to filter out irrele - ers/Presidents Management and John Jr., Rangos advocated finest pediatric care centers, and MediaBank, digital distribution fields of oil and gas, fossil and vant background noise during Program and the Georgetown standards for regional sanitation Johns Hopkins University, where company SnagFilms, and social nuclear power, public infrastruc - acoustic-emission testing, thus University Leadership Program. sites that resolved many envi - he was recently honored for media management company ture, chemicals, aerospace and making the technology useable Among Mr. Marcus’ professional ronmental concerns nationwide. sponsoring an innovative new Sprout Social. He is on the defense, transportation, primary to detect in real time imperfec - memberships are the Board of They initiated present-day envi - program which invites bright board of directors of public com - metals and metalworking, phar - tions, cracks, and growing cor - Regents of the University of Cal - ronmental protection standards young minds at Johns Hopkins panies including Groupon maceuticals and food process - rosion in materials and struc - ifornia, the Real Estate Round- decades ago, to include the de - to find a cure to metastatic can - (GRPN), Vonage Holdings Com - ing. Among them are American tures. table and the Policy Advisory sign and strict enforcement of cer. The Rangos Foundation also pany (VG), Echo Global Logis - Electric Power Inc., Bayer AG, Vahaviolos has written over Board of the University of Cali - federal laws forbidding corrupt supports programs at Duquesne tics, Inc. (ECHO), InnerWork - BP, Bechtel Corp., General Elec - 100-technical papers and 3 fornia in Berkeley’s Center for practices like the transportation and Carnegie Mellon Universi - ings, Inc. (INWK), Boingo tric Co., Boeing Co., Excelon, books, amassed numerous Real Estate & Urban of illegal waste. Across the East - ties. wireless and Neutral Tandem, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Valero patents and many honors and Economics. ern Seaboard and into the Mid - www.rangosfoundation.org Inc. (TNDM). Energy Co. The Mistras Group awards over the years, and be - www.marcusmillichap.com west, they built the largest, most He is also on the Initiative combines industry-leading prod - longs to various professional sophisticated land disposal fa - for Sustainability and Energy at ucts and technologies, expertise and scientific organizations, in - cilities in the industry - includ - PETER J. Northwestern Steering Commit - in mechanical integrity (MI) and cluding the American Society JOHN G. ing double-composite-lined 27. BARRIS* tee. At Dartmouth he is on the non-destructive testing (NDT) for Non Destructive Testing, for 26. RANGOS SR. HDPE (high-density polyethyl - $400 MILLION VENTURE board of the Tuck School Private services and proprietary data which he has served as presi - $425 MILLION ene) facilities to protect ground CAPITAL Equity and Entrepreneur Center analysis software to offer cus - dent, and the International ENVIRONMENTAL water - long before other com - Peter J. Barris, 59, is a ven - and launched the Barris Incuba - tomized solutions, ranging from Committee for Nondestructive MANAGEMENT panies emerged. ture capitalist known for helping tor at Tuck, which is aimed to routine inspections to complex, Testing (ICNDT), which collab - John G. Rangos, Sr., 82, In October 1991, Chambers to launch companies including encourage student startups. He plant-wide asset integrity assess - orates with the United Nations. made his fortune through the Development owned and oper - Groupon, CareerBuilder and Di - previously served on the Execu - ments and management. The A former president of ICNDT, he transportation, disposal, and ated a number of regional land - apers.com. He has been Manag - tive Committee of the Board of company works to extend the is a Life Honorary Member of management of industrial fills, with a reported market ing General Partner of leading the National Venture Capital As - useful life of their assets, in - its board. (NDT is the testing of wastes, as well as security ser - value of $1.7 billion. Chambers venture capital investor New sociation and was also a found - crease productivity, minimize re - materials without interfering vices. went public and, in 1995, was Enterprise Associates (NEA), ing member of Venture Philan - pair costs, comply with govern - with their make-up and encom - Born in Steubenville, OH, he merged with USA Waste, the Inc. since 1999, having joined thropy Partners, a philanthropic mental safety and passes a broad range of scien - grew up during the Depression country’s second largest waste the company in 1992. organization in the Washington environmental regulations, tific disciplines.) He was re - in northern West Virginia and management company. Rangos At NEA, he has led invest - DC area. manage risk and avoid cata - cently elected a Life Fellow of Fredericksburg, VA. An educa - then served as vice chairman of ments in over 25 companies that A member of Leadership 100 strophic disasters. Vahaviolos the Institute of Electrical and tion at the Houston School of USA Waste, during which time have gone public or had success - and an Archon of the Order of notes that the company is “seek - Electronic Engineers and was Business was interrupted when Waste Management, the coun - ful acquisitions. He has graced St. Andrew, he and wife Adri - ing more acquisitions and better honored at the March 10 AHI he joined the Active Force Re - try’s largest trash hauler, was the Forbes Midas list of top tech - enne Barris are based in expansion abroad.” Hellenic Heritage Achievement. serve unit in Pittsburgh, PA. His also acquired in 1998. The nology investors since 2007, but McLean, VA and have two Since going public in the Vahaviolos is married to As - served in the Army from 1951- merger was a tremendous suc - in 2011 was bumped up to daughters. NYSE in October 2009, MIS - pasia Nessas Vahaviolos, with 54, including serving on a com - cess. Number 8, due to the company’s www.nea.com TRAS ended fiscal year 2010 at whom he has three daughters: bat signal team in the Far East The massive Okeechobee, FL big bet on Groupon. They in - $272.1 million, up from $209.1 Athanasia Vahaviolos, who runs with numerous distinctions. landfill (approved in 1993, and vested $14.8 million in the com - the previous year for a revenue the Greek Mistras-Enviro - He began his career with now operated by Waste Man - pany early on, and received $70 growth of 30%. The stock shares coustics company serving the Rockwell Manufacturing Com - agement) is just one example of million back last year - but are steadily rising, reaching Balkans and Eastern Mediter - pany in Pittsburgh, where he Rangos’ commitment to sound earned on paper over a billion, $23.67 this week, a big increase ranean countries, Stephanie- earned the distinction of becom - environmental practices and re - as they own 13.7% of the cur - from the $12.50 price when the Athena Folia, Mistras’ Benefits ing the youngest general agent gional economic development. rently $9 billion company. stock first went public. Manager, and Kristy Vahaviolos- in company history. Rangos That site has a 100-year capacity Under his leadership, accord - Vahaviolos, who was born in Kyriakopoulos. formed several companies in the and receives 7,000 tons of waste ing to the NEA website, the 1946 in historic Mistras, in the www.mistrasgroup.com 1960’s, and pioneered techno - daily. Such monumental, envi - company’s assets under man - Peloponnese, as a child ripped logical advances in the trans - ronmentally-friendly disposal agement have grown ten-fold to apart electrical machinery and portation and disposal of indus - sites are also an economic boon over $11 billion. The company rebuilt it for fun – as well as for JAMES trial waste. Rangos founded to the areas in which they func - with offices in Maryland and better safety in the newly-elec - 29. DIMON Chambers Development Inc. in tion. Okeechobee County re - California’s Silicon Valley now trified village. He came to $355 MILLION CORPORATE 1971, a firm that provided ceives millions of dollars in roy - has branches in India, China – United States to study engineer - ADMINISTRATION waste treatment services; devel - alties from its landfill each year, and most recently - New York ing at Fairleigh Dickinson Uni - Jamie Dimon, 55, is chair - oped commercial recycling pro - boosting the local government’s City. NEA, founded 35 years versity in New Jersey, where he man & CEO of JPMorgan Chase, grams; and broke ground with ability to finance schools and ago, has seen 165 portfolio com - graduated first in his Science one of the country’s largest specially lined, layered landfills roads, as well as improve police panies going public and 265 ac - and Engineering class and went banks. Currently ranked 112th to protect groundwater supplies. and firefighting services. quisitions. on, as a recipient of The Bell among Forbes highest paid Rangos’ many innovative He also founded U.S. Utilities Barris grew up in Chicago. Laboratories Graduate Study CEO’s, which lists his five-year achievements include convert - in the mid-1960’s. A precursor His father James was an engi - Scholarship Program, to earn compensation at $109.96 mil - ing power plant boiler ash into to Chambers Development, USU neer – and his grandparents MS and PhD degrees in electri - lion and stock ownership at a useful component of cinder was part of a conglomerate, were from Greece. He earned cal engineering from Columbia $232.1 million, Dimon has man - blocks and anti-skid material for which eventually became part an MBA from Dartmouth Col - University. He was also awarded aged to keep JPMorgan well highways. He also played an in - of Chambers. USU subcon - lege after studying electrical en - a master’s degree in philosophy. ahead of the curve since taking

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He serves on the execu - Galakatos cofounded Millen - Georges confirmed to the TNH Maritime Holdings, a leading tive committee of the Business nium Predictive Medicine and immediately after the BP Oil maritime company with a fleet Council, Business Roundtable TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Spill, in January 2010, Georges of more than 60 dry bulk vessels and the Partnership for New where he was chairman. Prior Enterprises sold its fleet of off - and an additional 20-30 vessels York City, and is a member of to his stint at Millennium, he shore tugs under Dolphin Ma - for short- or medium-term em - the Financial Services Forum, Fi - was an associate at Venrock As - rine International Company to ployment and over 10 million nancial Services Roundtable and sociates focusing on early stage concentrate on its food distrib - deadweight tons. It’s a position Council on Foreign Relations. biotechnology investments. Be - ution business. The family of his she’s held since 2005. The NYSE- He is married to Judith Kent, fore Venrock, he was head of wife, the former Dathel Cole - listed company’s market capital - with whom he has three daugh - Molecular Biology Research at man, owns cleanup company ization is currently about ters. Novartis. Oil Mop OMI. $419.96 million; its enterprise www.jpmorganchase.com Born in Athens and raised in Georges purchased the 105- value is $3.5 billion. The com - Thessaloniki, where he studied year old French/Creole restau - pany maintains offices in New at Anatolia College. Galakatos rant Galatoire for perhaps $11 York, as well as Greece, Uruguay NICHOLAS earned his doctorate in Organic million a couple of years ago, and Belgium. Frangou is also the 30. GALAKATOS, Chemistry from MIT before with a major construction un - Chairman and Chief Executive PH.D post-doctoral studies at Harvard derway for it to return at a new Officer of Navios Maritime Part - $350 MILLION BIOMEDICAL Medical School. Until December location in Baton Rouge by ners, L.P. (NYSE: NMM) and the helm in 2006. He earned ac - TECHNOLOGY 31, 2009, he was the lead di - ment, restaurants and real es - Christmas 2012. The menu spe - Navios Maritime Acquisition cording to CNNMoney $23 mil - Dr. Nicholas Galakatos, 54,is rector of Affymax, a bio-phar - tate. cializes in seafood, especially lo - Corporation (NYSE: NNA). lion in 2011. Even when all the ranked 66th out of 100 corpo - maceutical company creating The company began as Im - cal specialties like shrimp and country’s major banks – e.g., rate executives on Forbes mag - novel drugs for patients suffer - perial Trading in 1916, a whole - soft-shelled crabs. Bank of America and Citigroup azine's Midas List. He has been ing from kidney disease. After sale grocery distribution com - Georges is very involved with – were barely managing to stay Managing Director of Clarus Affymax went public in 2006, pany founded by John Georges’ both Louisiana public life and afloat, the $2 trillion-in-assets Ventures since the Cambridge, Galakatos raised $660 million grandfather Gus Pelias. The the community of The Greek Or - bank thrived recently, earning MA-based firm’s inception in for the company in 2008, company is now the eighth thodox Cathedral of the Holy Dimon praise from President 2005. Clarus Ventures is a life though the company’s stocks largest convenience store sup - Trinity, and was notable in post- Obama and the respect of his sciences venture capital firm have dropped. Still, Galakatos plier in the nation. Hurricane Katrina both at the peers. He has been on Time founded by a team of “accom - “made out well with 2007 sale John Georges started out in University of New Orleans, as magazine’s list of 100 most in - plished investment professionals of Hypnion to Eli Lilly for $315 the family business at a young well as his own, and local fluential people three times with extensive and complemen - million,” Forbes reported. The age, sweeping warehouse floors churches. The former Church since 2006. He is less popular tary industry backgrounds over $500-million pharmaceuti - at age 11 and making deliveries President and Greek Commu - with the Occupy Wall Street which have enabled them to es - cals company AVEO, another in - by age 15. His father Dennis nity President hosted Ecumeni - movement and its offshoots tablish a long history of success vestment, went public last year Georges immigrated to the U.S., cal Patriarch Bartholomew, around the country, which have in creating value,” according to too. Hypnion, where Galakatos after serving in the Greek Resis - when he visited New Orleans in often critiqued him and JPMor - its website, which also reports was also lead director, was en - tance from a young age during October 2009. gan Chase. $1.2 billion of assets under its gaged in the discovery and de - World War II and the Royal A notable campaign financer, Dimon was born in New management “across two life velopment of therapeutic drugs Greek Air Force. Georges spent millions to un - York. His grandfather, a Greek sciences dedicated funds.” to treat disorders of the central John Georges completing his successfully run himself for gov - immigrant from Smyrna, was a Galakatos has over two nervous system, particularly studies at Tulane University in ernor twice, first as an indepen - broker and passed his knowl - decades of industry and invest - sleep and wake-alertness disor - 1983, turning his attention to dent candidate in post-Katrina edge of the business onto his ment experience in the health - ders and circadian rhythm ab - Imperial Trading, expanding its in 2007, and again, as a Demo - son and partner Theodore, Di - care sector. From 1997 to 2000, normalities. sales from $29 million to $1 bil - crat, in 2010. Undeterred, he is mon’s father. As a boy, Dimon he was vice president of New He is also director of cancer lion today, with 4,000 retailers now eyeing the 2015 race. attended the Browning School, Business at Millennium Pharma - therapy company Portola. He in nine states. Recent acquisi - He is a member of Tulane Named one of Fortune Mag - a prestigious all-boys prep and his wife, Alice, have two tions by Georges Enterprises in - University’s President's Council. azine’s Top 50 Most Powerful school on the Upper East Side. sons. Galakatos is a member of clude, in September 2011, the Georges is a foundation member Women in Business Global List He later majored in Psychology the Director’s Council of the $50 million food distributor Clif - of the University of New Orleans in 2011, shipping is in her and Economics at Tufts Univer - Koch Institute at MIT, and the ford D. Fite Company, $100 mil - and LSU Medical. He is on the blood. Frangou’s father, Capt. sity, and earned his MBA from Genetics Advisory Council at lion Union Grocery in 2010 and World Trade Center Board of Di - Nikolaos Frangos, has been run - Harvard University Business Harvard Medical School. He is the multi-million Harrison Com - rectors, New Orleans Business ning major Greek shipping com - School. Upon graduating in also on Anatolia College’s board pany in 2008. Georges Enter - Council, Jefferson Business pany, Good Faith, for more than 1982, Sanford Weill convinced of trustees. prises’ CEO said in a related Council, New Orleans Chamber 40 years. By the end of the ‘90s, him to turn down offers from www.clarusventures.com press release: “We are looking of Council Board of Director. He Frangos’ company was the Goldman Sachs and Morgan to make more acquisitions in the has also chaired and been vice largest company in terms of Stanley, and join him as an as - food distribution sector. president of the Western Region Greek-owned vessels. While re - sistant at American Express. JOHN In the vending field, In 2006, of the Young Presidents Organi - ceiving the Aristeon Award from Through a series of unprece - 30. GEORGES* Imperial Vending merged with zation. He has chaired the the Hellenic American Women’s dented mergers and acquisitions $350 MILLION MARINE, Whitener Snacks to become Re - Metairie Park Country Day Council in November 2009, that ensued, they formed Citi - FOOD SERVICES freshment Solutions, a Georges School Recovery and been on Frangou said of her father, “He group, then the largest financial John Georges, 52, is the Enterprises subsidiary. Georges the board of both Crimestoppers taught me that ingenuity and services conglomerate in the founder and CEO of Georges En - Enterprises’ AMA Distributors and the Young Leadership Coun - healthy skepticism of conven - world. Weill was the one who terprises, a company based in specialize in entertainment from cil of New Orleans. tional wisdom are the building made the deals, but Dimon was Elmwood, LA specializing in ac - videogames and pool tables to He and his wife have two blocks of success.” the “whiz kid” who made the quiring and growing businesses. jukeboxes. Georges Enterprises’ daughters, Zana, and Liza, and Prior to taking on her current n e numbers work. Dimon left Citi - r It invests in marine services, portfolio of real estate holdings; a son, Nike. role, Frangou received a bache - h

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Continued from page 17 million severance package. global thought leader in the lished her as a movie star. Her was vice president of worldwide A 30-year veteran of the IT technology industry. He recently new movie Wanderlust co-stars marketing & sales for Taligent lor's degree in mechanical engi - industry, he took charge of First served as co-chair of the her real-life boyfriend, Justin Inc., a software development neering from Fairleigh Dickin - Data shortly after Kohlberg CLOUD² Commission, including Theroux. company which was a joint ven - son University (summa cum Kravis Roberts acquired the specialists who offered the She also reportedly in 2011 ture among Apple Computer, laude) and a master's degree in credit card giant for $29 billion Obama government recommen - made over $20 million in selling IBM and Hewlett-Packard. He mechanical engineering from in April 2007. In 1992, First dations on cloud computing her Beverly Hills home for $35 joined VeriSign in July 1995 as Columbia University. From 1987 Data spun off from American policies. million - twice the price that one of its first employees. Since to 1989, she was an analyst on Express. It handles e-commerce www.vce.com she bought it. joining VeriSign, he helped es - the trading floor of Republic Na - processing services, including Forbes, which gave a net tablish the company as a global tional Bank of New York. merchant and bank transac - worth for her of $110 million in corporation used by millions of From 1990 until October tions, credit, retail and debit JENNIFER 2007, more recently placed her consumers and businesses daily 2001, Frangou was the chief ex - card issuing and processing. It 34. ANISTON at #21 on its “Celebrity 100” as they interact on the world’s ecutive officer of Franser Ship - also provides money orders and $230 MILLION list, reporting in June that she ping S.A., a company in Piraeus, paper check processing. Forbes ENTERTAINMENT made $28 million over the past Greece. In 2004, she served as ranked FDC 24th this past Oc - Popularly and affectionately year, with similar figures for Chairman, Chief Executive Of - tober among the country’s known as “America’s Sweet - past years. The actress, who ficer, and President of Interna - largest private companies, with heart,” Jennifer Aniston, 43, cranks out at least two films a tional Shipping Enterprises, un - its 2010 revenues at $10.38 bil - once lived in Crete and Athens year, has also been a producer til ISE's acquisition of and lion. as Jennifer Anastassakis. The in recent years. She divorced merger into Navios Holdings in Capellas says he inherited his daughter of famous daytime from superstar actor Brad Pitt 2005. Frangou was also a mem - gritty determination from his fa - soap opera star John Aniston seven years ago, but remains ber of the board of directors of ther, a Greek citizen who fought (Days of Our Lives), she eclipsed magazine-cover gold. Emporiki Bank of Greece, the Chairman & CEO of First Data with the Greek Army against the her father’s television fame and In February she received her second largest retail bank in Corporation (FDC), the world’s Germans in Italy during World success with her own role as own Hollywood Walk of Fame Greece, from April 2004 to July leading payment processing War II. After the War, the elder Rachel Green on the eternally Star. Some of her awards in - 2005. Frangou is the Chairman company, from 2007 to 2010. Capellas met and married his popular situation comedy, clude the Screen Actors Guild of the board of directors of IRF He is now Chairman and CEO wife Juliet in Italy. The family Friends. In the show’s final years (1996), Emmy (2002), Golden European Finance Investments of VCE, the Virtual Computing then immigrated to Ohio, where – it ran for ten seasons – Aniston Globe (2003) and People’s Ltd., listed on the AIM of the Environment Company, formed Capellas’ father worked his way and her five castmates struck Choice (four times) Awards, and London Stock Exchange. She by Cisco and EMC with invest - up from laborer to superinten - what was then a record deal – has assisted and worked with was also Chairman of the board ments from VMware and Intel, dent at the Republic Steel Cor - $1 million each per episode – many charities like Rain (an of directors of Proton Bank, offering technology products poration, where he worked for and she still collects a sizeable anti- sexual assault organiza - based in Athens, from June and solutions for cloud-based 30 years. Capellas developed an paycheck from the now-iconic tion), St. Jude’s and various can - 2006 until September 2008. She computing. interest in computers as an un - sitcom’s syndication. cer-fighting organizations. is Vice Chairman of the Mediter - He is on the board of Cisco, dergraduate at Kent State Uni - She continues to have suc - voice and data networks. ranean Committee of the China a multinational corporation net - versity. Shortly after he gradu - cess on the little screen- most Sclavos led the company Classification Society and is a working and communications ated, he met his wife, Marie recently in Tina Fey’s 30 Rock, STRATTON through a decade of robust member of the Hellenic and technology and services com - Angelillo, a former nurse. The but Aniston’s film career has 35. SCLAVOS growth and technological inno - Black Sea Committee of Bureau pany that is ranked 87th on two married in 1979, and trav - been somewhat hit-or-miss. $225 MILLION COMPUTERS, vation. His last years with Veritas as well as a member of Forbes’ Global 2000 list in 2011 eled the world for two decades Films like The Switch (2010) CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY VeriSign were taken up with in - the Greek Committee of Nippon with 70,700 employees and re - as Capellas’ business reputation were considered bombs, but Stratton Sclavos, 50, was vestigations into the company’s Kaiji Kyokai. ported net sales at $42.36 bil - grew. He was a senior vice pres - have been more than offset by chairman, president, & chief ex - stock option program, but it is “Shipping is in Greece what lion. He was also senior advisor ident of Oracle Corporation in box office bonanzas like The ecutive officer of VeriSign for 12 not believed that Sclavos per - Wall Street is in New York,” she for Silver Lake Partners, a $13 1997-98. He is credited, in his Breakup (2006) and Marley & years before he resigned in May sonally benefited from the op - said in a recent video that em - billion private equity firm fo - work with Compaq, with mak - Me (2008), which helped estab - 2007, leading that company tion grants in question, though phasizes the continued impor - cused on making large-scale in - ing it Microsoft’s key strategic through many acquisitions. it did occur under his watch. tance of the shipping sector in vestments in leading technology partner for the release of its He is general partner at Sclavos was born to second- Greece on the This is Greece ini - companies, from October 2006 Windows 2000 operating sys - Radar Partners LLC, a private generation Greek American par - tiative website. to July 2007. tem. In December 2006, Capel - investment firm and was ents in San Francisco, CA. He Frangou has received numer - Capellas’ earlier executive las was appointed acting CEO named, in 2011, a partner and still lives in California with his ous awards, including the Dry roles include chairman & CEO of Serena Software, selected by member of the executive team wife Jody and their two chil - Cargo Company of the Year of Compaq Computer Corpora - Silver Lake, which took Serena of online television production dren. His investments include Award in 2009 and the News - tion between 1999 and 2001. private in March 2006. company Prospect Park’s online co-owning upscale Dio Deka maker of the Year award by Following Hewlett-Packard’s ac - Capellas and his wife have ventures. restaurant. A lifelong Bay Area Lloyd’s List in 2009. She was quisition of Compaq, he stayed two children. He likes golf and Sclavos is now a director at resident, he formed the Sclavos named the Connecticut Maritime on as president of HP for six rock and roll. He is also actively multi-billion-dollar company Family Foundation to support Association Commodore for the months to ease the integration involved in community and Salesforce.com, which provides charitable efforts in children’s year 2011. She has developed a of the two companies. He then charitable work. In 2002, he be - software to businesses of all education and medical research. reputation as an impressive in - left HP to become chairman & came the first recipient of the sizes and industries world-wide. He likes to play basketball and vestor and philanthropist. CEO of MCI WorldCom between Hope Technology Award from He served on the board of di - holds an ownership stake in Sil - www.navios.com 2002 and 2006, presiding over the Center for Missing & Ex - rectors of Intuit, Inc. from 2001 icon Valley Sports & Entertain - the eventual Verizon-MCI ploited Children. He is a mem - to 2010, as well as the company ment (SVSE), the parent com - merger. He had joined World - ber of the Board of Governors Juniper Networks. pany of the San Jose Sharks MICHAEL D. Com, which was in bankruptcy, of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sclavos earned his bachelor’s hockey team. In June 2002, he 33. CAPELLAS to help it overcome a massive America. Capellas previously degree in Electrical & Computer was honored with the Ernst & $300 MILLION CORPORATE accounting scandal. After the served as a member of the Engineering from the University Young Northern California En - ADMINISTRATION transfer to Verizon was com - American University Board of of California in Davis. From Oc - trepreneur of the Year Award. Michael D. Capellas, 57, was pleted, Capellas received a $40 Trustees, and is recognized as a tober 1993 to June 1995, he He was also honored with the

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2001 Morgan Stanley Morgan Currently Pappas Restaurants Harris Pappas was commis - Leadership Award for Global has eight brands, including Pap - sioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in Commerce; named to Forbes’ pas Seafood Houses, Pappasito’s the U.S. Army, serving one year Top 50 CEO’s list; and served Cantinas, Pappadeaux Seafood in Thailand and one year in alongside 30 technology experts Kitchens, Pappas Bar-B-Q’s, Pap - Vietnam, earning two Bronze on former President George W. pas Bros. Steakhouses, Pappas Stars and three Army Commen - Bush’s National Security Burger, Yia Yia Mary’s Pappas dation medals. He is also a Telecommunications Advisory Greek Kitchen and the Dot Cof - member of the Board of Direc - Committee. fee Shop. Each company has its tors of Oceaneering Interna - own specialty, with Yia Yia tional, Inc., a publicly-held oil Mary’s, for instance, specializing and gas operations firm, and CHRIS & in Greek food, fish – as well as also served a 10-year term on 36. HARRIS PAPPAS mezedes (Greek, with a hint of the Board of Trustees of Memo - $200 MILLION Texas). Pappas Restaurants also rial Hermann Healthcare Sys - Brothers Christopher J., 63, has a food catering business. tem in Houston. He is an advi - and Harris Pappas, 65, today They recently added electric ve - sory director of the Boys and lead privately-owned Pappas hicle charging at their steak - Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Restaurants, Inc. – a company house. and of Bank - Frost National operating over 90 restaurants in Chris Pappas serves on the Houston. He is on Schreiner seven states. Chris Pappas is the Board of Directors for the University’s Advisory Board. He company’s CEO. His brother is Greater Houston Partnership is a member of the Texas A&M its president. The Nation’s and is also a member of the Foundation Development Advi - Restaurant News placed the Dean's Advisory Board at the sory Committee and serves on company #70 in its listing of Conrad N. Hilton College of Ho - the Education Development Top 100 companies in 2010 tel and Restaurant Management Council Advisory Committee. (based on 2009 figures), with at the University of Houston. He He has received awards from $480 million, when it came to was inducted into the college’s both Texas A&M University and U.S. Food service Revenue fig - Hospitality Industry Hall of the school’s Mays College of Business. Harris is also a mem - ber of the World President’s Or - ganization. He is also a founder of the Hellenic Foundation, which endeavors to raise schol - arship money for seminary stu - dents attending Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of The - ology. An avid boater and fish - erman, he and his wife, Vicky Marinos Pappas, have six chil - dren. The brothers’ grandfather, H.D., arrived in the U.S. in 1897 and became a restaurateur. His sons followed his lead with en - deavors including opening Pap- pas Bar-B-Q. The Pappas Broth - ers are often help nonprofit groups and churches renovate their kitchens. Highly involved in the Annunciation Cathedral of Houston, both brothers were named Archons of the Patriar - ures. On that listing, the com - Honor in 2009. Chris is a mem - chate in 2008. pany’s revenue growth rate was ber of the Board of Directors for www.pappas.com 50%. The two have become – the National Restaurant Associ - since 2001- major shareholders ation, the Texas Restaurant As - in the once-ailing, 50-year-old sociation, and the Greater Hous - . WILLIAM S. restaurant chain Luby’s, Inc., ton Restaurant Association and 36 STAVROPOULOS, which is listed on the NYSE; the is an Advisory Board member of PH.D company’s market capitalization Amegy Bank. In 2001, he was $200 MILLION CORPORATE is currently $145 million. Ludy’s inducted into the Texas Restau - ADMINISTRATION acquired 200-restaurant chain rant Association Hall of Honor. Dr. William S. Stavropoulos, Fuddruckers (and 3 Koo Koo He is also a member of the 72, is a director at Tyco Inter - Roo California Kitchen eateries) Houston Food Bank’s Capital national Limited, a major diver - in June 2010 for $63 million. Campaign Committee and he sified, multinational company Chris Pappas is President and has assisted in raising over 40 that is a leading provider of se - Chief CEO of Luby’s, which now million dollars for the organiza - curity products and services, fire has 94 Luby’s cafeterias, 57 Fud - tion. Chris received his Bache - protection and detection prod - druckers and four other eateries, lor's degree in Mechanical En - ucts and services, valves and plus 121 Fuddruckers fran - gineering from The University controls, and other industrial chises; Harris Pappas is its Chief of Texas at Austin. He and his products. Operating Officer. wife Maria have been married He told TNH that having Pappas Restaurants grew 30 years and have five grown reached retirement age, he will from their father and uncles’ children. work at Pappas Refrigeration. A graduate of Texas A&M, Continued on page 23

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Continued from page 14 hand and said “Kyrioi [gentle - ployment, that must change, but Although their charters limit men] – I have been trying to diaspora Greeks could inspire what they can do as organiza - Greek governments have been start a business here for two the youth. tions, that’s the kind of thing too generous and now they years but I can’t start one.” He “If Greece can create an en - members of Leadership 100 and don’t have the revenue to sup - had all kinds of problems secur - trepreneurial environment, the Faith endowment can do in - port it. “There is no easy way ing all the permits. The govern - there are all kinds of Greeks formally. Advertising legend out. The best thing anyone can ment now says that will change. here that would support it.” He George Lois, for instance, re - do now is send money or travel The mindset must also believes Greek-Americans can cently told TNH he would love there. I will charter a yacht and change, especially among the help in many ways “We need a follow up the brilliant campaign take my family to the Greek is - leader, however, someone who he did for Greece years ago. lands this summer.” He encour - “Everybody has the best can say ‘follow me and let’s res - Pappajohn adds that through ages other Greeks to invite their urrect Greece’…but takes a the creation of foundations non-Greek friends to Greece. time when they go to spark to get things going…I where donations can be tax de - “It’s the best time to go,” he Greece. We’ve got to start know the Archbishop really ductible, the Community could said. wants to help.” target concrete needs and he He said one of Greece’s pri - advertising that Greece is He is already popping with agrees that members of the orities must be to eliminate ob - the place to go, in spite of ideas. “Everybody has the best Community and the many silogi stacles to investment. “I went time when they go to Greece. and somatia (benevolent and re - over there 30 years ago. I was what you read in the We’ve got to start advertising gional organizations) here, invited by the Greek govern - paper...” that Greece is the place to go, through their friends and rela - ment. They sent me an air ticket in spite of what you read in the tives in Greece, can find out and set me up at the hotel youth. Pappajohn has been on paper. That will solve the prob - where donations can make a dif - Grand Bretagne with a 100 the board of Anatolia College lem. Its obvious Greek-Ameri - ference and help raise funds. other American businessmen.” for 30 years, where he started cans can’t make the debt go These are things the Pappa - The officials welcomed them an entrepreneurial fund. He do - away,” but if the Greek govern - johns know about, so their will as people who wanted to help nated $400,000, but there was ment can’t afford a top drawer to help and their optimism for their country by generating a scarcity of young people with advertising campaign, he agrees Greece is well-founded. business activity there. At one the courage to start a business. Greek-Americans can finance The Pappajohns believe that travel to Greece is one way to point, however, a man raised his With 45 percent youth unem - one. [email protected] help the country through a difficult time. James Chanos, In Short-Selling for the Long Run

Continued from page 4 1940s there.” Chanos, who was divorced market keeps sort of swatting in 2006, may have his spot on back.” With a chuckle he notes: the Hamptons and Manhattan “The problem with accounting social scene, but he remains scams is that you can’t disclose connected to Greece. He says them in advance. It sort of miti - he travels there every year, and gates the whole idea of the has brought his children to scam. It has to be sort of well Greece, connecting them with hidden and that’s not what’s their heritage. His three sons happening here. Everything is and daughter range in age from happening in full view.” 18 to 23. He says imposing austerity When not crunching the measures on countries already numbers, Chanos says he enjoys in recession “is madness” that’s contemporary art collecting and “something out of a 19th Cen - work for charities, noting “it’s tury playbook,” noting: “modern sort of the usual thing.” But he economic theory tells you that also has a passion for crunching is a major policy blunder.” At the weights. He owns Edge Gym the same time, however, he on the Upper East Side of Man - notes that governments in the hattan. “I’m a workout nut,” he EU are incapable of providing explains, adding: “I try to I try the counter-cyclical policies to get to the gym every day. It Ειδικεύομαι σε αγοραπωλησίες και ενοικιάσεις στο Manhattan needed at such a time as this. gets harder and harder the older Τηλεφωνήστε μου για όλες τις κτηματομεσιτικές σας ανάγκες It rubs against most countries you get, but I think it’s more im - in the EU’s history to have their portant.” VILY APOSTOLATOS sovereignty threatened, “with As for what his crystal ball 575 madison ave., new york, ny 10022 EU bureaucrats running your fi - tells him about 2012 and if it (212) 891-7085 nance ministry.” He adds, speak - will be a good year for the mar - [email protected] ing of Greece, “there are still kets, he says: “I have no idea, people who remember, you but all I know is that it will be know, what happened in the interesting, as they always are.” Four Future ‘50’?

In our research for this issue, we came across many accom - plished people who are not on the main list, but may be in a few years. Here are just a few.

TASSO ARGYROS , 30, found success in Silicon Valley very early. He and his partners sold their San Carlos, Califor - nia-based data management company Aster Data for $263 million to Ohio-based, former competitor Teradata in 2011. He is now Co-President at Teradata Aster, leading the Aster Center of Innovation. Born, raised and mostly educated in Greece, Ar - gyros is the son of a Mathemat -

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Continued from page 19 Achievement of Central Michi - worth probably exceeds $200 Arianna to the Time 100, Time The invasion of Cyprus in gan’s Business Hall of Fame million. Mamma Mia!, the mu - magazine's list of the world's 1974 was an issue that first pro - be retiring from Tyco – which is (2005). “Institutional Investor” sical produced by the couple in 100 most influential people. pelled Spyropoulos into cam - in the process of dividing into magazine named him one of 2008, made $600 million world - She was born Arianna paigning for Hellenic issues. He three, separate publically-traded America’s best CEO’s three times wide. Stassinopoulos in Athens, was among the founders that companies, at the end of 2012 (1998, 2003 and 2004). In Wilson is moving into the Greece, the daughter of Kon - year and a president of the Stavropoulos joined Tyco in 2010, he was named an Archon world of music, with a new 14- stantinos, who was a journalist American Hellenic Institute in March 2007. Tyco is headquar - of the Ecumenical Patriarchate track CD about love and heart - and management consultant, Washington, DC. He also was tered in New Jersey. It employs and was inducted into the Mid - break alike titled AM/FM com - and Elli Georgiadi. She moved the first president of the Hel - over 100,000 people worldwide. land County Sports Hall of Fame ing out on May 8. She will also to England at age 16 to attend lenic American National Coun - In May 2007, just two months as a Professional Baseball Vi - appear in upcoming films Kiss Cambridge University and has cil, founded in 1991. after Stavropoulos became a sionary (for work including Me and Jewtopia in 2012/2013. ridden a wave of energy, intelli - He is currently a chairman of board member, Tyco agreed to founding the Michigan Baseball Wilson is the editor of the Huff - gence and charisma more or less Hermes Expo International. He pay almost $3 billion to de - Foundation in 2005). ington Post’ Huff/Post50 site for straight through to her triumph was president of the ENOSIS frauded investors, the largest Stavropoulos and his wife Linda Baby Boomers. with The Post. The Times of Federation of Hellenic American such payment ever made by a have two children, Bill and An - London described her, back in Organizations of Illinois be - single company. The company’s gela, and six grandchildren. 1971, as “glamorous, with lots tween 1991-2006. 2011 sales were over $17 bil - www.milb.com ARIANNA of charm. Her clothes are stun - “Education is the number lion. 39. STASSINOPOULOS ning.” She graduated with an one priority on my mind,“ says HUFFINGTON M.A. in economics. At 21, she Spyropoulos, whose Spyropou - RITA $130 MILLION NEW MEDIA became president of the famed los Scholarship for Hellenic- 36. WILSON Arianna Stassinopoulos Huff - debating society, the Cambridge American Students of Hellas $200 MILLION ington, 61, is a nationally syn - Union. and USA has benefitted over ENTERTAINMENT dicated columnist, author of She moved to the United 300 people since 1982. Rita Wilson, 55, is an Ameri - thirteen books, and the co- States in 1980 and was married of automotive parts and its op - Among his many distinctions, can film and stage actress, pro - founder and editor-in-chief of to California oilman Michael erations extend to Europe, the Spyropoulos is most proud of ducer – and most recently, The Huffington Post, a popular Huffington in 1986. In the late U.S. and the Middle East. his Ellis Island Medal of Honor singer too. She is wife of super- news website. The Huffington 1980s, she wrote several articles One business led to another. received in 2001, a tribute to star actor and producer Tom Post – a media phenomenon and for National Review and her In 1980, the couple launched, his family’s early roots in Amer - Hanks. Born Margarita Ibrahi - opinion-shaper- was born of the husband, a Republican, served T.G.S. Petroleum Co, Inc. ica. He and wife have one moff in Los Angeles, CA her fa - brains and charisma of the in - in the U.S. House of Represen - In 1985, he was a co-founder daughter, Mariyana, who is an ther was a Pomak born in defatigable Greek American tatives before his career ended of CAM2 International, a motor attorney and an environmental Greece. Before immigrating to woman who has been called the when he lost a close race for the oil lubricants company pur - commissioner in Cook County. the U.S., he had lived in Bul - world’s greatest networker. She U.S. Senate in 1994. The couple chased from Sunoil. CAM2 In - www.cam2international.com garia and Turkey; her mother and her partners sold the site to divorced in 1997 and by then, ternational continues to grow, , www.saeusa.org was born and raised in a Greek American Online for a neat she had gained national promi - with over $500 million in an - village on the Albanian border. nence and begun to shift to the nual sales. The company pro - Her family changed their sur - political left. She told The Fi - duces agricultural and industrial CONSTANTINE name to Wilson, which was the nancial Times that she had “long chemicals too – all of which are 41. IORDANOU* name of a local street in South - been interested in steering her made at four refineries in the 100 MILLION INSURANCE ern California. conservative friends towards so - US. Constantine “Dino” Ior - As co-executive producer, cial activism and the problems Since 1976 he has complete danou, 62, is president, CEO Wilson is often credited with be - of worsening inequities in Amer - ownership of A&T Holding and Chairman of the Board of ing the driving force behind Nia ican life.” Nonetheless, Ms. Company, which is a real estate Arch Capital Group, Ltd, a Prior to joining Tyco, Vardalos’ smash-hit movie, My Huffington’s first foray into the holding company. He was pre - Bermuda-based insurance/rein - Stavropoulos was chairman, Big Fat Greek Wedding, which Internet was a website called viously director of Swiss-based surance global giant. president, & CEO of The Dow became the highest-grossing in- Resignation.com, which called GTE Engineering, Automotive The CEO’s journey began in Chemical Company, where his dependent film of all time. Wil - on President Clinton to resign. Wholesalers of Illinois. Cyprus. He arrived in the U.S. career spanned 39 years. His ca - son has had recurring roles in In 2003, she ran as an indepen - Spyropoulos has been Presi - and worked his way through reer with Dow began in Indi - various television series, and has dent candidate for Governor in dent of SAE USA since 2006, in - New York University, earning a anapolis with pharmaceutical appeared in several movies, in - the California recall election. volved in the reorganization of B.S. in aerospace engineering research in 1967. While he was cluding Midnight Caller, Volun - Huffington makes guest ap - SAE’s international organization before entering the insurance with Dow, he held various posi - teers, Bonfire of the Vanities, pearances on television shows. to be politically and financially industry in a trainee role at tions in research, marketing and Sleepless in Seattle, That Thing She serves on several boards of independent from the Greek American International Group general management. He also You Do, Frasier, and Runaway community service groups, in - government and to, as he says (AIG). served in a variety of research Bride. She also played Susan cluding A Place Called Home, “have a true representation” of Iordanou told the publication and business positions in phar - Borman, wife of astronaut Frank which works with at-risk chil - 10 million Greeks abroad. A mil - Risk & Insurance in 1999 that it maceuticals and diagnostics. Dr. Borman, in the HBO miniseries dren in South Central Los An - lion trees – and the seeds of was when AIG chairman Hank Stavropoulos was named presi - From the Earth to the Moon, geles. She also serves on the more environmentally-con - Greenberg noticed him in 1980 dent of Dow USA in 1990, and and performed the role of Roxie board of EL PAIS and the Com - scious minds- have been planted that he was promoted. In 1987 was elected vice president of Hart in the Broadway revival of mittee to Protect Journalists. in Greece through the Plant he moved onto Berkshire Hath - Dow Chemical Company. He Chicago from June to August of $315 million in February 2011. She has two daughters. Your Roots in Greece Founda - away, where he worked up to was then elected a senior vice 2006. Recently she appeared in She remains editor-in-chief of www.huffingtonpost.com tion, under Spyropoulos’ lead - president of Dow in May 1991, the show The Good Wife. the new Huffington Post Media ership. Continued on page 24 and became chief operating of - She has contributed to the Group. ficer in 1993. He served as CEO Moffitt Cancer Center by donat - In 2011, the site had ex - THEODORE G. in 1995-2000 and again in ing “True Hearts” jewelry, made pected 2011 revenue of $60 mil - 40. SPYROPOULOS 2002- 04, and was a member of of sterling silver and 14-carat lion and 26 million unique visi - $120 MILLION AUTOMOTIVE Dow’s board of directors from tors per month. AOL is PARTS, PETROLEUM July 1990 to March 2006 (he preparing an ambitious Huffin - PRODUCTS was succeeded by Andrew Liv - gton Post Streaming Network of Theodore G. Spyropoulos JAY W. B ECKER FLORIST eris, a Greek Australian). He is 16 hours of live video daily. may be known to most as cur - Chairman Emeritus of the com - Huffington was said to own rent World Council of Hellenes 225 Jericho Turnpike, Floral Park, NY 11001 pany. some 14% of the site at its sale. Abroad (SAE) USA Region Co - (516) 437-0307 • 1-800-735-0307 Stavropoulos holds a bache - According to Huffington, the ordinator, but he’s also an ac - lor of science degree from Ford - company has some 1,400 paid complished businessman in the www.jaywbeckerflowers.com ham University and a doctorate journalists (including 800 Patch Chicago area. in medicinal chemistry from the writers for AOL), yet the heart Born and raised in Kalavryta, John Saketos University of Washington. He is and soul of the operation are Greece, at age 14, Spyropoulos a director of Chemical Financial still the big name pro bono blog - went to Athens for his high Corporation, Teradata Corpora - gers like Alan Dershowitz and school studies. He studied Po - tion, Maersk Inc. and Tyco In - playwright David Mamet. litical Science in Sweden. In Specializing in Weddings ternational LTD. He is a trustee Forbes, which named Huffing - Sweden, he met his artist wife, of the Fidelity Equity and High ton among the 31st among the Erika Knickman Spyropoulos. and all other occasions Income Funds’ Board and is an World’s Most Powerful Woman, After completing his military Advisory Partner of Clayton, Du - writes: “The sites success had service in the Greek navy be - bilier & Rice LLC. Stavropoulos been fueled by an army of 9,000 tween 1962 and 1964, he and is non-executive chairman of free bloggers and high-profile his wife immigrated to the US, Univar, the largest chemical dis - contributors…” There are today where his brothers lived. Previ - tributor in the U.S.. He is on the some 20,000 bloggers and 36 ously, the family had arrived in Advisory Board for Metalmark million unique visitors a month. the US in 1888, with his grand - Capital LLC. Stavropoulos is also Huffington Posts were recently parents Theodore and Aglaia R a past chairman of the American launched in the UK and Canada Spyropoulos establishing the

Chemistry Council, Society of gold. The proceeds went to the and upcoming sites are in the successful Maple Leaf chocolate W Chemical Industry, and Ameri - benefit of several charities. She works for Spain and Italy sched - company, which was a source of can Plastics Council. Just a few and her husband are members uled this year. There were re - employment for many Greek im - Making of his many awards and honors of the Greek Orthodox Church. ports of a Greek Huffington Post migrants over the years. are AHEPA’s Man of the Year She has been married to Hanks circulating as well. Within a few years of estab - Your Wedding (1995), an honorary Doctor of since April 1988, and has two The Post was born in May lishing themselves in their new Laws Degree from Northwood children. Factoring in her hus - 2005 and is one of the most country, Spyropoulos and his a Dream University (1998), the Ellis Is - band’s fortune –Hanks’ pay, ac - widely read, linked to, and cited wife founded T.G.S. National land Medal of Honor (1998) cording to Forbes in 2011 was sites on the Internet. The rapid Wholesalers in 1975. The com - and induction into Junior $35 million, the couple’s net success of The Post catapulted pany specializes in wholesaling house florist for Sand Castle and Floral Terrace

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Continued from page 23 GEORGE J. WILLIAM J. friend and mentor (also list Last month, he was pre - 44. TSUNIS & 45. CATACOSINOS, here), in 2004 and became sented with the distinguished heading their commercial casu - FAMILY PH.D Chairman of the Board in 2006. Archbishop Iakovos Leadership alty operations. From March $85 MILLION $80 MILLION MINING AND Dow today has $60 billion in 100 Award for Excellence. 1992 through December 2001, HOSPITALITY/REAL ESTATE UTILITIES annual sales and 52,000 em - Liveris resides in Midland, MI Mr. Iordanou served in various George J. Tsunis, 44, Dr. William J. Catacosinos, ployees world-wide. Though with his wife Paula and they capacities for Zurich Financial founded Chartwell Hotels, LLC 80, has been a director of Inter - the company has faced a decline have three adult children. Services and its affiliates, in - in 2006, building on a family national Coal Group (ICG) since in its stock prices in recent years, www.dow.com cluding as senior executive vice tradition of hotel and restaurant 2004. ICG was a leading coal Liveris has been generously president of group operations ownership. The company has mining company operating in compensated as Chairman. In and business development of 900 employees, currently own - the United States, with more 2010 alone, according to Forbes’ MANUEL N. Zurich Financial Services, pres - ing and managing a total of 13 than 2,220 employees, which list of top CEO’s compensation, 47. STAMATAKIS* ident of Zurich American Spe - hotels, including the Interconti - was acquired by Arch Coal in a he earned $10.41 million in to - $50 MILLION INSURANCE, cialties Division, chief operating nental, Hilton and Marriot massive $3.4 billion cash pur - tal compensation, bringing his REAL ESTATE officer and chief executive offi - brands –in the states of New chase last year. five-year earnings as CEO to $41 Manuel “Manny” N. Sta - cer of Zurich American and chief York, New Hampshire, Pennsyl - million. According to CNN matakis, 63, is Founder, Chair - executive officer of Zurich North vania, and Rhode Island. In Money, a stock price upswing man and CEO of Valley Forge, America. 2010, the company added a ho - between 2009 and 2010 paid off Pennsylvania-based Capital He joined Bermuda-based tel and two office buildings. It when the stock options provided Management Enterprises Arch (NASDAQ: ACGL) in De - plans to add more hotels in to him by Dow increased in (CME), one of the country’s cember 2001 as its President 2012. Chartwell’s Holiday Inn value to the tune of $15 million. leading employee benefits con - and member of its Board of Di - March 2007, the Delaware at Williamsport, Pennsylvania The Board of Directors nom - sulting company. Prominent in rectors. In 2003, Iordanou was Chancery Court ruled that the earned a “Newcomer of the Year inated Liveris as a force to di - Philadelphia civic life, he is appointed president and CEO of shareholder meeting must pro - award” from Holiday Inn in versify the company. Among his noted for his role in negotiating Arch Capital Group, Ltd. In No - ceed, but this action was com - 2007. important moves was acquiring both the rescue and revitaliza - vember 2008, he was also ap - pleted after Perlegos was re - Chartwell Hotel’s chairman specialty chemical company tion of the city’s historic ship - pointed to the post of Chairman moved as president. The action and Chief Executive Officer, Tsu - Rohm and Haas for $16.2 billion yard and the creation of Drexel of the Board. resulted in a special shareholder nis, makes a point of visiting the in 2008. University’s College of Medicine. Rated one of Forbes’ 400 Best vote, which failed to generate hotels as often as he can. “I He is a firm believer in in - When it came to the insur - Big Companies in 2008, Arch the necessary 50 percent for Per - don’t think there is any substi - centives for increasing manufac - ance business, he credits his suc - had $5.03 billion in capital at legos. tute for going and visiting the turing in the US again. He even cess to knowing the details of the end of 2011, with stocks val - In 2009, the San Francisco hotels as a management tool.” wrote –and frequently speaks the business inside and out and ued at about $37 in March Chronicle valued Perlegos’ He notes: “Like all Greeks, my about – his 2011 book Make it having the following rule of 2012. Arch writes insurance and shares at $84.4 million. Stock family started out in the restau - in America on that topic. Among thumb: “Find the smartest peo - prices – with some fluctuations- rant business. And it’s all about Catacosinos is currently man - the products that the new Dow ple in that business and spend have doubled since then. At - hospitality and taking care of aging partner of Laurel Hill Cap - aims to make in America are as much time with them as pos - mel’s current market value is $5 guests. We went from feeding ital Partners, a private equity in - new products, often with an en - sible.” billion. Despite the conflicts at them, as coffee shop owners and vestment firm. His son Bill and vironmentally-friendly or re - Second-generation Greek Atmel, Perlegos remains a force restaurateurs, to now providing James are also partners. search-based core, such as solar Stamatakis was raised in in Silicon Valley as a semicon - overnight accommodations.” In mid-2011, the ICG acqui - shingles for homes. In June Canonsburg, PA in what he calls ductor consultant. He is among He added: “Over the past sition made big news in the coal 2011, President Obama named a lower middle class household. a host of Greek names listed un - year, I’ve taken advantage of the business. ICG was principally him co-chair of an Advanced Parents Marsha and Nicholas der the company Silicon Valley downturn in real estate to pick engaged in the extracting and Manufacturing Partnership, hailed from Karpathos and Seed Funding Group. Analysts up some properties. We are cur - processing of steam and metal - which aims to pool the efforts Rhodes islands, and he credits have watched him evolve from rently developing two hotels lurgical coal in Northern and of industry, schools and the gov - his Yiayia for teaching him a brilliant engineer at Intel into and a couple of office and Central Appalachia. ICG pro - ernment for innovation in fields about saving, from the coins he a respected leader of a billion- mixed-use buildings, mostly in duced, processed and sold steam like information technology, earned shining shoes at the local dollar public company. Atmel’s coal from 13 regional mining biotechnology, and nanotechnol - coffeehouse. IPO (initial public offering) in - complexes, which were sup - ogy. A scholarship student and fra - creased his net worth by mil - ported by 13 active under - He also aligned himself in ternity president, he studied in - lions. ground mines, 11 active surface 2011 with the president and bil - dustrial engineering at Penn reinsurance on worldwide basis George is married to Angeliki mines and 11 preparation plants lionaire Warren Buffett alike in State. After graduation in 1969, through operations in Bermuda, Perlegos. They are members of located throughout West Vir - calling for higher taxation rates however, he was more interested the US Europe and Canada. Its Leadership 100. ginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Vir - for millionaires like himself. subsidiaries offer full range of http://svgsfund.com ginia, and Illinois. Liveris has been at Dow for property and casualty insurance Before the merger, ICG con - 35 years, working since he first and reinsurance products glob - trolled around 318 million tons started off in Australia in 1976, ally, with a focus on specialty MERKOURIOS of metallurgical quality coal re - in the areas of manufacturing, lines of business. Some 34% of 43. “MIKE” serves and around 769 million engineering, sales, marketing, its work is in casualty and pro - ANGELIADES tons of steam coal reserves. ICG and business and general man - fessional liability, about 33% for $98 MILLION also owned the Sago Mine in agement. Much of this time he property/energy/marine and CONSTRUCTION, REAL West Virginia, where 12 miners worked in Asia, including 14 aviation. Arch Capital Group ESTATE were killed during an explosion years in Hong Kong. He has Ltd. recently announced that it Born on the island of Simi, in January 2006. Shares at ICG served as general manager for will acquire Ariel Re's Credit & in the Dodecanese, Mike Angeli - soared with the news of the Dow in Thailand, and president Surety reinsurance operations ades, 70, established the fifth deal, which made Arch the sec - of all Asia-Pacific operations. He based in Zurich. largest construction business in ond largest reserve holder of has been a member of Dow's Iordanou, who is based in the Metro New York area (and coal in the U.S. Board of Directors since Febru - Glen Head, NY, has considerable one that is among the top 400 The son of immigrants, Cat - ary 2004, and was named CEO stocks in the company and his in the country). The islander’s acosinos was raised in Upper in November 2004. He was compensation for 2010 was first jobs when arriving in the Manhattan’s Washington elected as Chairman of the $9.5 million. U.S. in 1960 included packaging Heights. His studies at NYU in - Board effective April 1, 2006. He is also a director at Verisk cheese, olive oil and olives, boat Pennsylvania.” cluded a master’s degree in ad - The Dow CEO/Chairman Analytics, Inc. of Jersey City, NJ, construction, loading freezers Tsunis added: “we are pro - ministration and a PhD in eco - with roots in Kastellorizo, the American Insurance Associ - for an ice cream and even viding a lot of the picks and nomics. From 1953 to 1956, Greece was born in Darwin, Aus - ation (AIA) and the Association treacherous work painting shovels for the Marcellus Shale.” Catacosinos served as an officer tralia. As he told students in a of Bermuda Insurers and Rein - bridges. Then he was hired by He explained, “it’s the second in the U.S. Navy and from 1957 lecture in 2005, his grandfather surers (ABIR). George Levesanos, a friend of largest natural gas find in the to 1969, he was Assistant Direc - was a Greek sailor who made He is a founding member his carpenter father’s, in con - history of the world and there tor at Brookhaven National Lab - the impromptu decision to stay in pursuing a part-time job in in - and lifetime trustee of the Pan - struction and realized how is an incredible need for hotels oratory, Upton, NY. He founded in Darwin, after traveling there surance than his engineering cyprian Association of America, and office building and shop - and was chairman and CEO of on a merchant ship at the start work. Together with a partner, established in 1975. He also is ping centers an apartments Applied Digital Data Systems, of the 20th century. Andrew Liv - he founded his first company, a founding member of Faith: An throughout the northern tier of Inc., a computer manufacturer eris attended the University of Stamritt, Inc., before launching Endowment for Orthodoxy and Pennsylvania.” as well as pioneering heart fetal Queensland in Brisbane, gradu - Stamatakis and Associates in Hellenism. Iordanou has previ - Tsunis and his family build heart monitor company Coro - ating with a bachelor's degree 1972, a company he folded into ously served as a trustee of Roo - on the legacy of his father, the metrics Medical Systems, Inc., (first-class honors) in Chemical CME in the 1980s. He also cre - sevelt University and the Col - late James Tsunis, who together which was sold to American Engineering, and was awarded ated with a group of colleagues, lege of Insurance and Risk with his cousin Charles Tsunis, Home Products with big returns. the University Medal for that First Financial Resources in the Management. His awards in - began with coffee shops, before He then went on to found and year. In 2005, he received an 1980s, a producers’ group with clude the Ellis Island Medal of carved out a name for them - serve as Chairman and CEO of honorary doctorate in science 100 offices nation-wide. Honor (1999). He is married to selves by building the Bonwit Applied Digital Data Systems, from the school. His insurance work first fo - Marianne Iordanou and they Inn on Long Island in 1971, be - Inc. (ADDS), which was ac - cused on individual retirement have three children. fore investing in hotels and real quired in 1980 by NCR. plans, before shifting into exec - www.archcapgroup.com estate. George Tsunis also over - He was also chairman & CEO utive compensation and estate sees his family's real estate and of Long Island Lighting Co., planning. In most recent restaurant holdings which in - which built the controversial decades, CME specializes in the GEORGE cludes shopping centers, office Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant lucrative business of group in - 41. PERLEGOS buildings in the Northeast. (never used, though it bore a $6 surance and benefits consulting. $100 MILLION After studying at N.Y.U., Tsu - billion price tag) on Long Island, He prides himself on saving cor - ELECTRONICS nis was trained as an attorney from January 1984 to July 1998, porate clients millions. George Perlegos, 61, was at St. John's University in pocketing a $42 million sever - Stamatakis has been in - chairman & CEO of Atmel Cor - Queens. He was a partner at ance package after a controver - volved, since age 26, in real es - poration (NYSE: ATML), a Long Island law firm Rivken sial parting of the ways at the tate development projects. He is global leader in the manufac - Radler LLP, working in real es - time. currently involved in a casino turing of microcontrollers and tate development, zoning and From 2000 to 2004, Cata - plan for Philadelphia. other specialized electronics much he enjoyed the trade that land use. Tsunis previously also cosinos had served as chairman, On the civic side, he has been components in San Jose, Cali - he had been trained on, in part, was a Special Counsel to the president & CEO of TNP Enter - extensively involved in various fornia. He was born in Tripoli, by working with this carpenter Town of Huntington, Senator prises Inc., the parent of Texas- ways in shaping the public life Greece. His family came to the father in Simi. Alfonse D'Amato's appointee on New Mexico Power in Fort and business environment of United States when he was 12 In 1965, he and his cousin the U.S. Senate committee on Worth, TX. He then was CEO till Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. years of age. Though he entered George Nikolis took a major step Banking, Housing and Urban Af - 2005, when TNP was acquired In 1995 Governor Tom Ridge San Jose State University in - by establishing their ANT Con - fairs, and an attorney for the by PNM, yielding double the ini - asked him to chair the Pennsyl - tending to study medicine, the struction Company renovating New York City Council. He has tial investment. vania IMPACCT Commission, semiconductor industry at - homes. Three years later, they worked on campaigns including He has served on the boards which was charged with finding tracted his attention. He worked established a new company and those of Governor George Pataki of Atlantic Bank of New York, ways to trim government spend - in Silicon Valley upon gradua - this time worked in renovating (1994) and Suffolk County Ex - The Center for the Study of the ing in Pennsylvania. The Com - tion, and then received his PhD restaurants. He told TNH, “in a ecutive Robert Gaffney (1999). Presidency, First National Bank The Greek-Australian sits on mission identified over $5 bil - in Electrical Engineering at short period of time, we ended His decisions on whom to sup - of Long Island, German Ameri - the board of directors of IBM, lion dollars in potential savings Stanford, working at Intel and up doing general reconstruc - port are based on what their can Chamber of Commerce, and is vice chairman of the Busi - He then chaired the Delaware helping to found SEEQ Technol - tions.” Angeliades has built 182 stances are on the important is - Ketema, Inc., Long Island Asso - ness Council, and a vice chair of River Port Authority (DRPA) be - ogy. He is legendary for his work restaurants in the New York sues of the community – the Ec - ciation, U.S. Life Corporation, the Business Roundtable. He tween 1996 and 2003. He was on EEPROM flash memory tech - Metro area. He said, “I sold the umenical Patriarchate, Greece, Utilities Mutual Insurance Com - serves as president and chair - pivotal in the effort to restore nology at Intel. majority of them to Greeks, I fi - and Cyprus. pany and Preservation Services man of the Board of the Inter - Philadelphia as a major ship - He bootstrapped semicon - nanced all of them and I never Active in both his local com - Inc. national Council of Chemical As - building center, helping to cre - ductor company Atmel in 1984 went to court for any reason and munity and the Greek Orthodox Catacosinos has served as an sociations. He is a member of ate a partnership with the Com - with $23,000 of his own money. I am saying this with a sense of Church, he was the youngest Adjunct Professor at NYU’s the U.S. President's Export monwealth of PA, the City of The company designs, develops, pride.” In 1990 he split with his board of director member of Graduate School of Business Ad - Council, the US-India CEO Fo - Philadelphia and the Federal manufactures and sells a range cousin, establishing his own Long Island’s Dowling College, ministration and has lectured at rum, the Peterson Institute for Government to build the newest of integrated circuits products, company called M.A. Angeli - his region’s American Red Cross many other business schools. International Economics, and and most modern Commercial including microcontrollers and ades. It specializes in federal chapter – and one of the most He and his wife Florence re - the American Australian Associ - shipbuilding facility in the advanced logic, mixed-signal, jobs such as libraries, court - youthful Archons of the Ecu - side in Mill Neck, NY. A Cancer ation. He serves on the board of United States. He tells the TNH: nonvolatile memory and radio houses, and schools. M.A. An - menical Patriarchate’s Order of Research Professorship is named trustees for The Herbert H. and “We brought in a world-class frequency components. Perlegos geliades has also done several St. Andrew. He was named to after the couple at Stony Brook Grace A. Dow Foundation, US - shipbuilding company from Nor - was terminated in August 2006 major New York Mass Transit the National Council of the Ar - University. CIB, and Tufts University. way to run the Yard and they after an investigation where the Authority reconstruction pro - chons. He is also on the Board www.laurelhill.com Liveris is a Chartered Engi - are currently undertaking the board of directors accused him jects. His other investments in - of Trustees of Touro Law School. neer and a Fellow of The Insti - construction of the 17th and and his brother Gust (an execu - clude the recent purchase of 47 He often actively works behind tute of Chemical Engineers, as 18th ocean going commercial tive vice president of the com - Dairy Barn convenience stores the scenes to promote the Hel - ANDREW N. well as a Fellow of the Aus - ship at the Yard, representing pany) of spending $235,000 in in New York. lenism and Orthodoxy’s inter - 46. LIVERIS* tralian Academy of Technologi - more than 50% of all such ships company funds on airplane tick - He is one of the original ests in the U.S. and is a founding $70 MILLION CHEMICALS, cal Sciences and Engineering. In built in the entire United States ets for themselves and their im - founders of Archangel Michael member of the Faith endow - PLASTICS, MANAGEMENT 2011 alone he received awards since 2000..” He is currently on mediate families, although the Church in Roslyn, NY. He is also ment. Australian-born Andrew Liv - from the Committee for Eco - the boards of Aker Philadelphia Delaware Chancery Court ex - a member of the AHEPA Gold The Lycoming United Way eris, 57, is President, Chairman nomic Development, the United Shipyard and the Philadelphia pressed its “discomfort with the Coast Chapter and Leadership will present him with The Dou - and Chief Executive Officer of States Council for International Shipyard Development Corpo - thoroughness and fairness of the 100. glas C. Dickey Humanitarian international chemical, materi - Business (USCIB) and the Yale ration (Chairman). investigation and with the deci - He and his wife of over 30 Award on April 11. als, agroscience and plastics Chief Executive Leadership In - He chaired, for 13 years, the sions.” Perlegos called a meeting years, Libby, reside in Manhas - He and his wife, Olga, have global giant The Dow Chemical stitute. He was appointed Inau - Drexel University College of to replace five of the existing set, NY. They have four daugh - a son, James, and daughter, Company, which is based in gural Chair of The University of Medicine, an institution that he board members, which the ters and four granddaughters. Eleni. Midland, Michigan. He suc - Queensland in America Founda - was involved in helping to cre - board attempted to cancel. In www.ma-angeliades.com www.chartwellhotels.com ceeded William Stavropoulos, a tion in 2011. ate out of two ailing local med - THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 17, 2012 50 WEALTHIEST GREEKS IN AMERICA 25 ical institutions. He remains on restaurant. In 2009, Cora part - and producer Jeff Richmond mestically and 26 movies that the boards of both Drexel and nered with Disney to open and has two daughters. earned $100 million internation - its College of Medicine. The Kouzinna by Cat Cora at Dis - ally. The Simpsons Movie, the Manuel Stamatakis Endowment ney’s Board Walk Resort, which X-Men series, The Devil Wears Scholarship for medical students features Mediterranean and JAMES N. Prada, the Star Wars Trilogy, the has raised $2.5 million for Greek favorites. In 2011, she 48. GIANOPULOS* Ice Age series and Fox Search - Drexel’s future doctors through opened Cat Cora’s Kitchen, with $40 MILLION MOVIE light Pictures more “arthouse” golf tournaments for students. locations in the Virgin Terminal INDUSTRY successes like Slumdog Million - (He is an avid golfer). 2 at San Francisco International James N. Gianopulos, aka aire and Sideways were among He serves on numerous Airport and the George Bush In - Jim Gianopulos, 59, is a co- the successes. Director James boards, including serving as tercontinental Airport in Hous - chairman-CEO of Fox Filmed Cameron's Avatar cost the studio chairman of the Greater ton, TX. A Cat Cora Cocktail Entertainment, with interna - $380 million, but earned $2.7 Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Lounge and Tapas and Gourmet tional hits under his watch in - billion worldwide. Corporation, the Philadelphia World Market will follow at Salt cluding multi-billion-making Gianopoulos, referring with Shipyard Development Corpora - Lake City International Airport Avatar and Titanic. pride to a “Greek Mafia” in Hol - tion and the Pennsylvania as a part of a deal with Hojeij His father arrived in America lywood, makes sure that all of Supreme Court Investment Ad - Branded Foods. in the 1950’s and ran a marine Hellenic Hollywood’s stars visory Board. He is on the board In 2011, the savvy chef and industrial equipment man - gather at his annual Easter party. of companies including Crowley launched an eco-friendly line of ufacturing business. Born in He is a Governor of the Acad - Chemical Corporation and Mis - Starfrit cookware and a line of Brooklyn, Gianopoulos went on emy of Motion Picture Arts & tras Group, Inc. to name but a Greek company Gaea’s olive oils, to study at Boston University, Sciences, a member of the Board few. He has, since the 1980s, vinegar, cooking sauces, tape - New York's Fordham Law of the Motion Picture & Televi - raised “tens of millions,” accord - nades and olives. She also has School, and New York University sion Fund, and a trustee of the ing to Stamatakis, for Republi - line of California wines under School of Law. Before specializ - American Film Institute. can campaign fundraising, in - the chef of Bistro Don Giovanni. the Coranation label. politics with her guest appear - ing in entertainment law, how - Gianopoulos also serves on cluding the Presidential Early on, Cora was a culinary Cora devotes a good part of ance back at SNL with a spot- ever, he spent a summer work - the National Entertainment Ad - campaigns of former NYC Mayor ambassador for Greek food in her time and energy to nonprofit on impersonation of vice presi - ing on a tanker and traveling visory Council for the Anti- Rudy Giuliani and President America. Cora writes, in her first Chefs For Humanity, created in dential candidate Sarah Palin in the world. George W. Bush. cookbook Cat Cora’s Kitchen 2004 in response to the tsunami 2008. New York magazine re - If he was in the news in 2011 A few of his distinctions in - (2004) that returning to her disaster in Indonesia. This not- ported that at SNL, Fey was fighting for anti-piracy legisla - clude an honorary Doctorate of family’s Skopelos home, she had for-profit organization has part - making $1.5 million/year, while tion, his career in the entertain - Business from the Drexel Col - a realization: “Every food on my nered with Share Our Strength Forbes indicated that she earned ment began protecting the copy - lege of Business and the Ameri - aunt’s table was simple, authen - as well as the World Food Pro - $13 million as producer and right privileges of members of can Heart Association’s 2010 tic, and perfectly delicious – and gramme to provide nutrition ed - head writer for 30 Rock in the American Society of Com - Heart of Philadelphia award. each had a place in my family’s ucation and hunger relief world - 20010/2011, including her book posers, Authors & Publishers www.cme-group.com, history. I belong to a line of peo - wide. Cora and spouse Jennifer sales. The previous year, her (ASCAP). He went on to work www.phillyshipyard.com, ple that stretches back hundreds Cora live in Santa Barbara, CA salary was listed as $7.5 million at RCA/Columbia Pictures Inter - www.visitphilly.com of years, all of them sitting un - with their four young sons. by the same publication. national Video and in der these trees, tasting these www.catcora.com Again, Fey’s turn to autobi - funding/distribution for Para - same flavors. Suddenly it ography paid off for her, finan - mount’s international pay TV. CAT seemed as though my years of cially, as her book of autobio - In 1992, he was hired by Fox 48. CORA* training to be a chef had TINA graphical, self-deprecating to run its international TV and $40 MILLION CULINARY, brought me here, back to this 48. FEY* anecdotes, Bossypants, sold a worldwide pay TV. He was pres - TELEVISION table, to learn how to bring $40 MILLION TELEVISION, million copies. (The New York ident of Twentieth Century Fox Cat Cora, 44, is best known these flavors home.” Her other FILM Times estimated her advance for International from 1994 to for becoming, in 2005, the first cookbooks are Cooking From One of the highest-paid that book was at $5 million.) In - 2000, before being appointed and only female Iron Chef on The Hip: Fast, Easy, Phenomenal women in television in cluded are tales of her life grow - co-chairman along with Tom Food Network’s Iron Chef Amer - Meals and Classics With a Twist: 2010/2011 was none other than ing up in Upper Darby, Pennsyl - Rothman in 2000. “Gianopulos ica. She is an in-demand televi - Fresh Takes on Favorite Dishes. Ms. Bossypants herself, Eliza - vania, with plenty of references is a virtual unknown in Holly - sion and promotional figure, a Last year she also released her beth Stamatina “Tina” Fey, 41. to both the Greek and German wood,” wrote the San Francisco best-selling author and head of first children’s book, Suitcase Her trajectory in show business sides within her (from her Chronicle at the time. But by a multimillion-dollar media Surprise for Mommy, which was no given, as she broke into mother and German/Scottish fa - 2007, Premiere counted them restaurant, food product and helps youngsters whose Mom or comedy first as a member of the ther, respectively). She talks in among the most powerful peo - Defamation League and The cookware line. CNN Money Dad have to travel. She is a con - Chicago improvisational comedy the book too of feeling very ple in Hollywood. Brady Center. He is on the X- placed her businesses’ worth in tributing food & lifestyle editor group The Second City before much a minority in college at Gianopulos was given the ti - Foundation Board of Trustees. June 2011 at over $40 million. for O, Oprah Winfrey’s maga - getting her big break in New University of Virginia, but al - tle of Chief Executive Officer in He also has served on Honorary Cora was born in Jackson, zine. York City. She put her comedic ways completely at home in the 2006 at Fox too. In 2009, he and Committees for The Fulfillment MI. Her grandfather (whose The charismatic chef first ap - knack and writing to work as a world of theater people. Tom Rothman, were also ap - Fund, The City of Hope and the name was shortened from Kara - peared on TV in 1999, as co- writer for NBC sketch comedy Fey has written or starred in pointed to oversee News Corpo - Multiple Sclerosis Society for giozos at Ellis Island) and god - host of Food Network’s Melting series Saturday Night Live (SNL) film comedies including Mean ration’s Los Angeles-based cre - which he was the 2001 honoree, father Peter Costas owned Pot with Rocco Di Spirito. from 1997 to 2006. Her wit Girls, Baby Mama, Date Night ative production divisions, The Help Group, which honored restaurants. She drafted her Among her many appearances lifted her to the top of that male- and Megamind, to name a few. including the film and television him with its Humanitarian own business plan for a restau - are hosting My Country My dominated organization – and Her television work has paid studios. They manage all Award in 2005, the Alliance for rant at age 15. Kitchen: Greece, Date Plate and she became the first female head off in seven Emmy Awards, film/TV production and market - Lupus Research and others. He Cora studied Exercise Physi - co-hosting Kitchen Accom - writer in 1999, as well as a per - three Golden Globe Awards, ing and global distribution has been a member and sup - ology and Biology at the Univer - plished. She currently co-hosts former starting in 2000 through four Screen Actors Guild Awards through all outlets and markets, porter of the Army Archerd sity of Southern Mississippi be - Bravo’s new reality series 2005. At SNL, she gave her own and four Writers Guild of Amer - including all the new high-tech Fund's Board and on the Advi - fore head to study– prompted Around the World in 80 Plates, twist on current events as a co- ica Awards. means. sory Council of the Rett Syn - by Julia Child at a book signing- which follows 12 chefs compet - anchor of the Weekend Update Since 2007, Forbes, the New Though recent years and the drome Research Trust. at the Culinary Institute of ing in a culinary race across 10 news segment. Life imitated art York Post, Time, People and spread of streaming and piracy He resides in Los Angeles America in New York. She countries in 44 days. – and vice-versa – as she created other media sources agree in have seen declines in Hollywood with his wife Ann and their trained under top chefs in New Her restaurant biz is growing NBC TV show 30 Rock, which their listings that Fey is one of box office profits, the Gianopu - three daughters, Mimi (an up- York and France. She was a sous rapidly. In 2008, she partnered was inspired by her own SNL the most influential people los/Rothman team had – by and-coming actress), Alexa, and chef in New York before heading with Macy’s to open Cat Cora’s experience. Fey also made a around. 2006 overseen 20 movies that Niki. to California’s Napa Valley to be Que (CCQ), a casual barbeque powerful stamp on American She is married to composer produced over $100 million do - www.foxmovies.com

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By Angelike Contis paign,” before slamming Obama TNH Staff Writer for seeking $1 billion. He wrote: “It blows my mind when I am When it comes to the upcom - asked for money as a donation ing 2012 US Presidential elec - at the same time I am getting tions, the Greek-American com - blasted as being a bad guy!” munity is split – all the way up Fox CEO Jim Gianopulos was to its wealthiest one percent. also unhappy with the Leader In Republican camps, former in Chief after he failed to back Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Rom - stronger anti-piracy legislation ney has the active support of in January. He was quoted in John Catsimatidis, who rallied trade magazine Variety as say - support around the candidate ing: “I have been a very early with a $1,000-$2,500/person and ardent supporter of the private lunch with Romney on president, but I couldn't say at March 14 at the Waldorf Astoria this time that I am very enthu - in Manhattan. Meanwhile, a siastic about providing support. $1,000 breakfast fund-raiser If you went to Detroit and said, will be held for Romney at the 'I think the Japanese build better Stockton, California home of cars,' I don't think you would Alex Spanos on March 27. Who - feel a wellspring of support if, ever wins the Republican nomi - as a candidate for office, you nation can rely on California- went there for fund-raisers the based George Argyros for next week." support; he may have provided In Hollywood, however, New Gingrich’s American Solu - Obama may still count on the tions advocacy group in previ - support of actress Rita Wilson, ous years, he has appeared on Greek-American leaders are lined up behind both President Obama and Republican candidates including Mitt Romney ahead of whose husband, actor Tom the guest list of at least one Cal - the November elections. Hanks, provides the voice-over ifornia fundraiser for Romney. of an Obama infomercial. And New Jersey-based Mistras told TNH Rick Perry was his top major fundraisers released by Tsunis also told TNH, “most his own modest Brooklyn begin - the Tsakopoulos real estate fam - Group CEO Sotirios Vahaviolos pick. Obama in February, cautiously people would consider me a na - nings and climb to the top, but ily may repeat their support of would like a combination Re - Meanwhile, President Barack agrees: “The president is most tional democrat leading the said to the president: “And since Obama from the 2008 election. publican candidate. He ex - Obama can count on the sup - likely to be reelected…I think Greek-American effort on behalf you have never worked before Some of the wealthy, how - plained: “I want Newt Gingrich port of attorney and Baltimore that would have been unheard of Obama-Biden.” in a real job for a real company, ever, insist of neutrality. A ideas and Romney to run them! Orioles owner Peter Angelos. He of last summer.” The short seller Technology pioneer and you need help from people who spokeswoman for the Pete Pe - It does not exist, so like the Ro - told TNH: “I'll be very involved notes: “there are still ten months Washington Capitals owner Ted have been there. Don’t push terson Foundation said, for in - mans ‘dum spiro spero’ …… in supporting the President…I to go and that can be a long, Leonsis may have donated to them away!” Leonsis was not stance of Pete Peterson, “he is which means …. ‘while I am predict President Obama will be long time. I think the US econ - Obama in the past, but in Sep - available to the TNH for com - not endorsing any candidate or breathing I hope…..’” In Novem - elected and I intend to con - omy is actually beginning to im - tember, he blogged angrily, in ment on his current stance on party. The Foundation is strictly ber, Philadelphia Republican tribute to that effort.” prove, quite frankly and that can relation to the president’s call Obama’s campaign. He raged, non-partisan and does not en - fundraiser (and Mistras board Hedge fund expert James help the president.” for more taxation of the wealthy. “I have maxed out on personal dorse candidates as a matter of member) Manny Stamatakis Chanos, who was on the list of Chartwell Hotel’s George In the piece, Leonsis outlined donations to his re-election cam - policy.” Analysis: Obama tested by events outside control

By Ben Feller all approach that led to the cri - AP White House sis. Republicans say he's failed Correspondent to lead. The White House isn't out to WASHINGTON (AP) — This is make this election about foreign the economy election, right? Tell policy, but Gibbs said "I don't that to the world. think it hurts" if the conversa - President Barack Obama is tion turns that way. getting another dose of the re - Obama has a story to tell on ality of his job: the out-of-his- the killing of Osama bin Laden, control events that shape the ending of the war in Iraq, whether he will keep it. the squeezing of Iran through He is lobbying Israel not to sanctions. launch on attack on Iran that The direction of the war in could set the Middle East on fire Afghanistan has been on that and pull the United States into list too. But now it's a question, another war. He is struggling to and Obama has to answer. get world powers to unite on Afghanistan is raging with halting a massacre in Syria. He anti-Americanism after U.S. is on the defensive about staying troops burned Qurans last in Afghanistan after a U.S. sol - month and, over the weekend, dier allegedly went on a killing a soldier allegedly killed 16 spree against civilians. Afghan civilians and burned And back home, where the many of the bodies. economy is king, everyone is Obama was questioned talking about the price of gaso - about the horrific incident by line. Which, as Obama can't say television reporters from around enough, no one can control the nation. They had been in - right now. vited to the White House to talk The Republican presidential about energy, but they pushed candidates don't have to worry him on when the U.S. will be as much about all this because getting out of Afghanistan too. they don't have the responsibil - Obama said the United States ity of governing — a luxury must not rush to the exits. Obama likes to note, although So the timetable remains: the he enjoyed the same when he ap photo/riChard drew end of 2014, at the latest, for was the challenger. The Repub - All eyes are on the economy as the 2012 presidential election approaches. Trader John Bishop works on the floor of the New Americans to get out of a com - licans, though, are being drawn York Stock Exchange on March 13. bat role in Afghanistan. into events beyond their pre - And this one: a little under ferred message of the day. American presidency at the Uni - That doesn't offer as much in China could undermine the omy, the economy and the econ - nine months left for any issue For Obama, whose re-elec - versity of Virginia's Miller Cen - election-year satisfaction for the United States, and the turmoil omy," Obama campaign adviser in the world to rock Obama's re- tion bid looks rosier with every ter. typical commuter. surrounding Iran and Israel that Robert Gibbs said. election bid. good month of job creation, the "People may not care much "The reality is that the oil could further jolt gas prices and, Indeed, an Associated Press- political risk in the least is that about what Israel is doing, or prices and the gas prices that we perhaps, lead to war. GfK poll of issues last month White House Correspondent he gets knocked off message. even what Iran is doing, but pay here in the United States are It was a telling sign when found 91 percent of people said Ben Feller has covered the Oba - That happened Monday when given American dependence on set on the global market," Inte - Obama held his first news con - the economy was highly impor - ma and George W. Bush presi - Obama and the White House Mideast oil, that has a direct im - rior Secretary Ken Salazar told ference of the year last week tant to them. Obama's team says dencies for The Associated spent a lot of effort trying to fo - pact on the pocketbook. Do reporters Monday. "We don't set and got not one question on the the choice for voters is about Press. AP Deputy Director of cus on energy, but the dominant these things inevitably have an them, and we don't control them. economy writ large. The focus restoring American security for Polling Jennifer Agiesta con - news was the horrific rampage impact on the campaign? Ab - This president and this Congress was on the threat of a preemp - all or going back to a free-for- tributed to this report. in Afghanistan. solutely, because they will be the can't control those prices." tive Israeli attack on Iran's nu - Americans have turned questions put to the presidential Clearly. Obama has gotten clear sites. Now the attention is against the war in Afghanistan, candidates." used to this dynamic. back on the Afghanistan war as with most of them saying the As one example, the price at Good news has come before Obama warns against a hasty fight isn't worth it anymore. the pump carries political risk on the economy, only to be suf - retreat. Four Future ‘50’? The bigger worry for Obama for Obama, who is taking a focated by outside events. Just So it goes for presidents. is that all the outside events pounding over the issue in the a few months ago, Obama at - The big problems of the day conspire to sour the public polls. tributed a slowing economy to are covered by the media, eval - Continued from page 22 mood, give people more to The average price for a gal - the Japanese tsunami, the Arab uated by pollsters and viewed worry about and create an lon of gasoline is now about Spring and the European debt within the election context. income, equity and futures opening for Republicans to chal - $3.80, the highest ever for this crisis (not to mention his ugly Still, the general election products. “We have one of the lenge his leadership. Just be - time of year. The White House showdown with Congress over campaign is expected to come top ten global futures groups cause presidents may not be says anyone suggesting a quick a near-government default). down to which contender has here at Mizuho,” notes Koudou - able to control problems does fix is lying to voters. Instead, Now sizable job growth has better answers for people look - nis. Mizuho Securities USA is not mean they don't get blamed Obama pushes energy explo - taken hold by the month, but ing for a job, a better career, a one of only 21 firms recognized for them. ration across the board and re - that pattern is hardly assured way to keep their house, a sense by the Federal Reserve as a Pri - "There are so many of them minds folks he championed a through Election Day. Obama of security. mary Dealer of US Treasuries. now, and dire ones," said Bar - payroll tax cut that kept money still has a wary eye on Europe's "The three most important is - He had previously been a senior bara Perry, a scholar of the in their pockets. economic stability, a slowdown sues of the election are the econ - executive at ABN AMRO and Merrill Lynch.

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