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List Of Greeks By Net Worth
The following is a list of Greek billionaires. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by ''Forbes'' magazine in March every year. 2023 source: 2023 ''The World's Billionaires'' 2022 source: 2022 ''The World's Billionaires'' 2021 source: 2021 ''The World's Billionaires'' 2021 Greek Nationals List of Greek-American, Greek-Cypriots and Greek-Russian Billionaires 2020 source: 2020 ''The World's Billionaires'' 2019 source: 2019 ''The World's Billionaires'' 2018 source: 2018 ''The World's Billionaires'' 2013 source: 2013 ''The World's Billionaires'' Other millionaires source: The Ultra Rich Greeks See also *Economy of Greece *List of countries by number of billionaires *List of companies of Greece *List of wealthiest families * List of Cypriot billionaires by net worth References {{DEFAULTSORT:Greeks by net worth Net worth Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an indiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Channel (Greek TV Channel)
Star Channel is a Greek free-to-air television channel that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek shows. It was launched in December 1993 and is owned by New Television S.A. (a company owned by Giannis Vardinogiannis). Star Channel is known in Greece mostly for its programming style, both in terms of live shows and news content, with an increased focus on lifestyle, showbiz, gossip, and fashion news, and on "comedic" presentation. In 2013, Star started combining information with entertainment, resulting in the channel's shift to a more serious tone. Star Channel generated €64 million in net profit in 2014 which represents a 32.2% increase from the previous year. History Star Channel was launched on 4 December 1993 to compete with Mega, ANT1, Alpha TV and ERT Channels. It began broadcasting children's programs as well as foreign series. In 1994 – Star Channel began to exchange family/children's programs from Alpha, then known as Skai (Greek spelling of Sky) with Star's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platinum Equity
Platinum Equity, LLC is an American private equity investment firm founded by Tom Gores in 1995. The firm focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia. History Platinum Equity was founded in 1995 by Tom Gores. The firm's first acquisition was LSI, a company that generated computer graphics to re-create accidents for courtroom testimony. After purchasing it for $200,000, Platinum Equity focused on servicing existing customers and returning the company to profitability.Steven Bertoni (October 19, 2009)Ready to Play.''Forbes'' Magazine. Over the next five years, between July 1996 and September 2001, the firm made 32 acquisitions with $226 million, and realized $940 million on those investments. These acquisitions included a call center (Foresight Software), networking gear (Racal Electronics), and voice and data service (Williams Communications). BusinessWeek ranked the firm number 10 on its 1999 list of the country’s top 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Gores
Tom Gores (born Tewfiq Georgious, ar, توفيق جورجيوس; July 31, 1964) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Platinum Equity, a private equity firm headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2011, Gores and Platinum Equity became the owners of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons. He became the sole owner in 2015. As of March 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$6.0 billion. Early life and education Gores was born in Nazareth, on July 31, 1964. He was the fifth of six children in a practicing Catholic family with a father of Greek descent and a mother of Lebanese descent. When he was around five years old, he and his family left Nazareth and settled in Genesee, Michigan located 10 miles northeast of Flint. His first job involved stocking shelves at his uncle's grocery store in Genesee. While a student at Genesee High School, Gores played defensive back in football, middle infielder in baseball, and guard in basketba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse (MLL) was a men's field lacrosse league in the United States. The league's inaugural season was in 2001. Teams played anywhere from ten to 16 games in a summertime regular season. This was followed by a four-team playoff for the championship trophy, the Steinfeld Trophy, named after founder Jake Steinfeld. League attendance peaked at 6,417 in 2011 and the 2019 average was 4,587. The Chesapeake Bayhawks and New York Lizards (originally the Baltimore Bayhawks and Long Island Lizards) were MLL members throughout its existence and competed in the first three championship games, with the Lizards winning two. The Boston Cannons, the last of the six charter franchises to remain in their original market with their original name, won their first championship in 2011. The Philadelphia Barrage returned to the league in 2020 after an 11-season hiatus. After moving from Bridgeport to Philadelphia, the Barrage won three championships in four years from 2004 to 2007. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Balance
New Balance Athletics, Inc. (NB), best known as simply New Balance, is one of the world's major sports footwear and apparel manufacturers. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the multinational corporation was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Support Company. New Balance maintains a manufacturing presence in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom for the European market, where they produce some of their popular models. New Balance claims to differentiate their products with technical features, such as blended gel inserts, heel counters and a greater selection of sizes, particularly for very narrow or very wide widths. The company is privately held and totaled $4.4 billion in revenue in 2021. History In 1906, William J. Riley, an Irish immigrant, founded the New Balance Arch Support Company in the Boston area, manufacturing arch supports and other accessories designed to improve shoe fit. His first product, a flexible arch support, was designed with three suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Davis (businessman)
James S. Davis (born 1943) is an American billionaire businessman, the owner and chairman of New Balance, and an early investor in Major League Lacrosse. Early life James S. Davis was born in 1943 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Greek Americans, Greek immigrants. He attended the Worcester Academy, and he received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Middlebury College in 1966.Sarah C. Ray, 'Library named for Jim Davis '66 and his family', May 7, 201/ref> While in college, he played college football. Career Davis started his career as a sales engineer at the LFE Corporation in Waltham, Massachusetts, and as marketing manager for the Applied Geodata Systems Division of Techven Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1972, he bought New Balance, then only a 6-employee firm in Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, and turned it into a 4,000-employee global corporation with revenues averaging around $2.5 billion every year. He has been a board member of the Sporting G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Safra
Joseph Safra ( ar, يوسف صفرا; 1 September 1938 – 10 December 2020) was a Swiss-based Lebanese Brazilian banker and billionaire businessman, who ran the Brazilian banking and investment empire, Safra Group. Joseph Safra was the chairman of all Safra companies, among them Safra National Bank of New York and Banco Safra headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. In August 2020, ''Forbes'' reported Safra's estimated net worth at US$22.8 billion, the 52nd richest person in the world and richest in Brazil. Early life Joseph Safra was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon to a family of Sephardic Jewish background originally from Lebanon and Syria with banking connections back to Ottoman times.Kasmira JeffordGherkin bought by Safra Group: Meet the Brazilian-Lebanese billionaire behind the £700m deal ''City A.M.'', 11 November 2014 The family's history in banking originated with caravan trade between Aleppo, Beirut, Alexandria, and Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire. The Safra f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Safra
Vicky Safra (born 1952/1953) is a Greek-born billionaire and philanthropist. Biography Safra was born Vicky Sarfati (Βίκυ Σαρφάτη), the daughter of Fortunée (née Eskenazi) (1926–2015) and Alberto El Sarfaty (1914–2003). In 1969, she married Joseph Safra (1938–2020). Her husband died in 2020 leaving his fortune to her and their children. She heads the Joseph Safra Philanthropic Foundation. She is a citizen of Greece but lives in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. She had four children with her husband: Jacob J. Safra, Esther Safra Dayan (married to , son of Sasson Dayan), Alberto J. Safra, and David J. Safra. Jacob is responsible for the international operations (Safra National Bank of New York and J. Safra Sarasin of Switzerland) while David manages Banco Safra in Brazil. According to the ''Forbes'' list of ''The World's Billionaires'', as of October 2021, she is worth $7.5 billion. Her children are also billionaires worth collectively $7.1 billion. As of 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EFG International
EFG International is a global private banking group offering private banking and asset management services, headquartered in Zurich. EFG International's group of private banking businesses operates in around 40 locations worldwide, with more than 3,073 employees (as of 31 December 2020). History EFG (European Financial Group) International was formed in 1995 by Jean Pierre Cuoni Lawrence D. Howell, Baron Corso von Habsburg and five others. The genesis of the bank was by the acquisitions of both the right to operate from the Zurich office of Banque de Deposits and the Swiss operations of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Structure EFG International's largest shareholder is EFG Bank European Financial Group, a Swiss bank based in Geneva, holding about 44.8% of its capital. This is in turn a distinct and separate sub-group of European Financial Group EFG (Luxembourg) (“EFG Group”), based in Luxembourg. In addition, BTG Pactual holds 28.9% of EFG International. EFG Bank is EFG In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiro Latsis
Spiros J. Latsis ( el, Σπύρος Λάτσης; born 1946) is a Greek billionaire, and business magnate. He is the son of the late tycoon Yiannis Latsis, who died in 2003. In 2018, Spiros Latsis ranked #729 on the ''Forbes'' World's Billionaires list, with wealth listed at US $3.2 billion. Early life Spiro Latsis is the son of Yiannis Latsis and Erietta Tsoukala. He has two sisters, Marianna and Margarita Latsis. He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) where, in 1968, he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics. In 1970, he received a master's degree in logic and scientific method. He went on to pursue his doctorate and obtained a PhD in philosophy from the LSE in 1974. His doctoral advisor was Imre Lakatos. Career and family business His father John Latsis started building the family fortune in 1938 as a trader and later a ship-owner. He grew his business into a fleet of ships by the 1960s. He built up a number of business interests in the areas of shipping, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GEK Terna
GEK Terna Holding Real Estate Construction ( el, ΓΕΚ ΤΕΡΝΑ) is a large Greek conglomerate which is listed on the Athens Exchange. Its construction branch Terna is one of the leading enterprises of its sector in Greece. GEK Terna's electric utilities branch ''Terna Energy'' lately focussed on the production and transmission of renewable energy. Through its subsidiary Heron S.A., it is as well involved in the construction and operation of thermoelectric power generation fuelled with natural gas. ''Terna Energy'' is listed separately on the Athens Exchange ( ). Company The company was formed when former competitors GEK and TERNA merged in 1999. Until 2008, GEK was the name of the holding with TERNA being its operational branch. The Athens-based company has been listed at the Athens Exchange since 1969 and belongs to the 25 companies forming the FTSE/Athex Large Cap index. In 2013, U.S. investment firm York Capital Magagement bought a 10% share of the company. Rail pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
