Board of Directors

Board of Directors

The Hellenic Initiative

Executive Committee

Nicholas W. Alexos

EVP/Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Alexos joined Univar Solutions in January 2020 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Univar Solutions, Mr. Alexos served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at Dentsply Sirona, Inc. where he led the growth strategy and executed successful portfolio shaping initiatives. Previously, he served as a Managing Director of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, where he helped a wide array of portfolio companies achieve growth and margin expansion. He has served on several boards including VWR International, Option Care Health, Sirona Dental Systems, Team Health, Performance Health and various others. He has also served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations including the Children's Inner-City Educational Fund, Lake Forest Country Day School, MetroSquash, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Council, Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago and the Harvard Dental School of Medicine Advisory Board. He proudly serves on the board of The Hellenic Initiative and along with his wife Marcie and their three children, are very supportive of these commitments to the legacy of their Hellenic Diaspora.

Mr. Alexos received his bachelor’s degree in business from Loyola University, and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Nicholas W. Alexos

EVP/Chief Financial Officer

Univar Solutions, Inc.

Dean Dakolias

Dean Dakolias

Managing Director

Mr. Dakolias is the Co-Chairman and a Managing Partner of Fortress Investment Group and previously served as Co-CIO for all Fortress’ Credit Funds. He sits on the Leadership Committee and is a member of several investment committees. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Dakolias was a co-founder and Managing Director of American Commercial Capital LLC (a specialty finance company) and Coronado Advisors (an SEC registered broker dealer), both of which were sold to Wells Fargo & Co. in 2001.

Mr. Dakolias serves on the Board of Trustees and as Treasurer for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Founded in 1881, it is the largest and oldest research center providing graduate students and scholars from affiliated North American academic institutions a base for the advance study of all aspects of Greek Culture, from antiquity to present day.

Mr. Dakolias also serves as a Board Member of Endeavor Greece which invests in the economic renewal of Greece through entrepreneurship and economic development.  A particular focus for Mr. Dakolias is the plight of refugees arriving in Greece, particularly unaccompanied minors, women at-risk and survivors of torture. He supports METAdrasi and together with the international law firm Reed Smith LLP, Mr. Dakolias is working to create a new paradigm for refugee resettlement through Lamp Lifeboat Ladder - an innovative effort to build private partnerships to protect refugees who are survivors of torture and help them to resettle in safe countries where they may rebuild their lives. Mr. Dakolias also serves on the Board of Trustees for Columbia University and the Millbrook School. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Dakolias received a B.S. in Physics from Columbia University.

Dean Dakolias

Managing Director

Fortress Investment Group, LLC

William P. Doucas

Chairman

William Doucas serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Elutions, Inc., an artificial intelligence enterprise that delivers unparalleled operational savings and transformational growth opportunities to clients across verticals and geographies. In addition, William serves as Chairman of Elutions Capital Ventures, a private equity firm based in Luxembourg.

With over 25 years of experience in the technology sector, William fully understands that technology alone has the ability to fuse with human thought to drive real change and define the next generation of enterprise solutions. Through his thoughtful leadership and guidance, Elutions has evolved from a provider of solutions that Do, to solutions that Teach, Learn and Innovate, thusly creating cognitive solutions capable of impacting an entire ecosystem to deliver transformational value.

William Doucas aspires to make Elutions' market-leading platform, known as Maestro, the world's premier artificial intelligence solution, drastically improving operations at scale while reducing associated costs in real-time. Driven by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Automation, Elutions’ Maestro establishes a neural network across a client’s ecosystem, augmenting powerful technology with the empowerment of human thought to deliver an unprecedented level of value. Maestro closes the gap between operational data, action and savings by identifying and automating the implementation of specific corrective actions for operational optimization rather than simply producing data, dashboards and insights for further analysis.

Mr. Doucas graduated Summa Cum Laude from Georgetown University in 1981 with a degree in finance. He is proud to be a member of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Board of Advisors. William Doucas is an active guest speaker at Georgetown for undergraduate students through their entrepreneurship initiative, Startup Hoyas. In addition, Mr. Doucas is an member of the Executive Board for the Hellenic Initiative, founded to support crisis relief efforts, promote entrepreneurship, and catalyze economic development to help shape Greece’s long-term recovery.

William P. Doucas

Chairman

Elutions

John D. Georges

John D. Georges

Chief Executive Officer

John D. Georges

Chief Executive Officer

Georges Enterprises

Father Alexander Karloutsos (Honorary Advisor)

Father Alexander Karloutsos is the Vicar General of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and Special Assistant to His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. He is the Spiritual Advisor to the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America, and to Faith: An Endowment for Orthodoxy & Hellenism. He also serves as the representative of the Archdiocese to the White House, the Congress, state and local officials, Greek American organizations, political action, religious freedom and human rights groups. Father Alexander is also the pastor of The Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the Hamptons and serves as the Orthodox Christian Chaplain for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He was previously Executive Director of Leadership 100, serving from 1986 to 1992 and 1999 to 2004, and was appointed by Archbishop Iakovos as the first Vicar of Public Affairs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in 1985, holding that position simultaneously until 1992 when he was appointed Special Assistant to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1994, The Ecumenical Patriarch personally elevated Fr. Karloutsos to the prestigious office of Protopresbyter of the Sacred See of Saint Andrew

Father Alexander is married to Xanthi Karavellas Karloutsos. They have three children, happily married, and nine grandchildren, Alexander, Konstantine, Xanthi, Luca, Konstantina, Demetrios, Steven, Leo and Michael.

Father Alexander Karloutsos (Honorary Advisor)

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

John Koudounis

Chief Executive Officer

John Koudounis is Chief Executive Officer of Calamos Investments. Appointed to the role in 2016 by the firm’s founder, John Calamos, Mr. Koudounis brings a wealth of experience in global capital markets and is considered one of the most accomplished leaders in the financial services industry.

Prior to joining Calamos Investments, Mr. Koudounis served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mizuho Securities USA, Inc. (MSUSA), a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, one of the world’s largest full-service financial institutions. During his tenure at Mizuho Securities, he built the firm into a full-service investment bank, expanding its debt and equity capital markets teams. Under his leadership, the firm grew in profitability, number of clients, and product diversification, allowing Mizuho to be considered globally as a top tier investment bank. Prior to joining MSUSA in 2008, he was Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income for ABN AMRO Americas where he played a critical role in driving growth for the firm.

Mr. Koudounis is a regular featured speaker and guest on financial news programs, including CNN, Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, TD Ameritrade, Yahoo Finance and others. He is a member of the Leadership Council of Concordia and the Bretton Woods Committee, as well as a founding board member of The Hellenic Initiative, the National Hellenic Museum, a Patron of Prince’s Trust and an Advisory Board member of the SEAL Future Foundation. He received his B.A. in International Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs and Economics from Brown University.

John Koudounis

Chief Executive Officer

Calamos Investments

Nikos Koumettis, Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Group President, The Coca-Cola Company

Nikos Koumettis

President, Europe Operating Unit, The Coca-Cola Company

Nikos Koumettis is the President of the Europe Operating Unit at The Coca-Cola Company where he oversees 40 countries.

Nikos joined Coca-Cola in 2001 as General Manager for Greece and Cyprus, and since then, has built a wealth of experience in several international roles, including President of the Adriatic and the Balkans, President of Southeast Europe, President of the Canada Business Unit and President of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

He began his career in Marketing and Sales, working for Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Elgeka and Papastratos / Phillip Morris.

Nikos is a member of the Board of Directors of Canada Goose International as well as a trustee of the American College in Greece and a Chair of the Board for Société BIC. He holds a Master of Science degree in International Marketing from Strathclyde Business School and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the American College of Greece.

Nikos is passionate about youth empowerment. He is the co-founder - together with Global Shapers (Athens Hub) - of the social initiative ‘Regeneration’ which aims to strengthen the skills of young people in Greece and place talented graduates in the labor market.

Nikos is a Greek-Cypriot, born in Sudan and raised in Greece. He is married to Sarita Chaim and they have two children, Petros and Felicia. He is an avid skier and sailor.

Nikos Koumettis

President, Europe Operating Unit, The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company

Michael G. Psaros

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Michael Psaros is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP, and a member of its Investment Committee and Management Committee. KPS Capital Partners, LP is the manager of KPS Special Situations Funds (www.kpsfund.com), a family of private equity funds with approximately $11.4 billion of assets under management focused on making controlling equity investments in manufacturing and industrial companies across a diverse array of industries worldwide. Mr. Psaros serves on the Board of Directors of Georgetown University and is the Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Advisors of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Mr. Psaros is the Vice Chairman of Friends of St. Nicholas, the organization responsible for constructing the new St. Nicholas National Shrine at Ground Zero.

Michael G. Psaros

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

KPS Capital Partners, LP

Board Members

Ambassadors

Princess Tatiana

Chair

THI Ambassadors

Arianna Huffington

CEO and Founder

Arianna Huffington is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In August 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.

She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

She serves on numerous boards, including Uber, Onex, The Center for Public Integrity, Global Citizen and Just Capital.

Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep
Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, both became instant international bestsellers.

She is a mother, sister, flat shoe advocate, and sleep evangelist.

Arianna Huffington

CEO and Founder

Thrive Global

Mike A. Manatos

Mike A. Manatos

President

Mike Manatos has built on his family’s legacy as one of the most trusted and established in Washington, DC.  For 3 generations and over 88 years a Manatos has been working in or with the Federal Government.  Much of their work has included promoting and preserving Hellenism and Orthodoxy. Through his demonstrated integrity and credibility, Mike has built trusted, influential relationships throughout Washington, across the country and around the world.
Mike has spent his entire 34 year career working with national Greek-American community and has served on the Boards of many of the most influential organizations, including: Leadership 100 (since 2010), the Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (since 2008); the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (appointed an Archon in 2006), the National Hellenic Society (since 2014), the National Hellenic Student Association.  He has also worked closely with government and business leaders in Greece and Cyprus for over three decades.
Honors he has received include: the inaugural “Philotimo Award” from the Hellenic Hearts Foundation (in 2022); the inaugural “Parents of the Year” Award (with his wife Laura) from the Loukoumi  Foundation (in 2019); one of Washington Life magazine’s “Philanthropic 50” (in 2020); one of “DC’s most powerful siblings” by Politico, and one of the “25 most intriguing people of Greek-America” by Greek-America Magazine.
He co-founded and serves as Executive Director of the Washington Oxi Day Foundation, creating the world-renowned OXI Courage Award and Service Awards.
Since he began his affiliation with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic in 1997, he has worked as a Board Member, wish granter, ambassador and has personally raised over $2 million and granted the wishes of over 250 children.  He served as Chairman of the Board from 2019 - 2023.

Mike A. Manatos

President

Manatos & Manatos

Nia Vardalos

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director

Nia Vardalos

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director

Staff