In 2016 Jeremy set up Aristeus Financial Services, an asset management firm in Cyprus which is fully regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission where he has passed his advanced examinations. He retired on 31st March 2023 and relinquished his chairmanship but remains on the main board and other related vehicles as a non executive director.

Jeremy is also board chairman of Cyprus Seeds. Cyprus Seeds is a non-profit organization registered in Cyprus in June 2018, with the mission to support the commercialization of innovative academic research in universities and research institutions in Cyprus. Cyprus Seeds provides grants, mentoring as well as training and advice to help research projects mature to a stage that can attract venture capital or funding from private investors.
In 2001 Jeremy set up a family office managing the investments of a prominent European family. The office made investments across the asset class spectrum in developed and emerging markets. He acted as CIO until late 2015 and remains a board member.

Previously Jeremy was a founding partner and board member of Greece’s first investment bank, Alpha Finance from 1989 to 2001. Alpha Finance listed on the Athens Stock Exchange is April 1995 and was sold to Alpha Bank in 2001.

Prior to Alpha Finance he worked at Continental Illinois Bank in New York, Athens and Piraeus.
Jeremy graduated from Leeds University in 1976.

He sits on the boards or advisory committees of various companies, investment vehicles, educational bodies and NGOs.

John Koudounis assumed the position of Calamos Investments CEO in 2016 and has more than 35 years of experience on Wall Street. In 2008, he was recognized as the youngest CEO on Wall Street, serving as President and CEO of Mizuho Securities USA. During his tenure, he built the firm into a top 10 Global Investment Bank. Since joining Calamos, Koudounis has more than doubled the assets under management. He expanded Calamos’ executive talent with key hires in personnel and investment teams with innovative strategies to enable firm growth. Mr. Koudounis is often sought-after for speaking engagements at conferences worldwide and frequently appears on financial news programs such as CNN, Fox, Fox Business, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, TD Ameritrade, Yahoo Finance, and others.

Koudounis is a member of Concordia, the Bretton Woods Committee, as well as a board member of World Business Chicago and the National Hellenic Museum. He is a patron of Prince’s Trust International and an executive advisory board member for the SEAL Future Foundation. He is a founding board member and executive committee member of The Hellenic Initiative, a member of Leadership 100 and President of the Metropolis of Chicago Foundation. In 2016 he was inducted as an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Order of St. Andrew, and serves on the board of the National Council of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle. He also serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation.

Mr. Koudounis graduated from Brown University, where he played football and earned degrees in International Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs and Economics. He is a devoted husband and father to his twin daughters.

Andrew N. Liveris AO is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company and the former Executive Chairman of DowDuPont. As the company’s longest- serving non-family CEO, and with a combined 42 years of experience at Dow, Andrew had assignments in manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, and business and general management before becoming CEO and Chairman.

In April 2022, Andrew was named President of the Board of the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG). He currently serves as a Chairman of Blackrock Long Term Private Capital and The Hellenic Initiative. Andrew is the former Chairman of Lucid Motors and a current Board member. He is a Director of IBM, Saudi Aramco, Worley (Deputy Chairman), Novonix and the Minderoo Foundation.

Andrew sits on the Advisory Board of Salesforce, the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Teneo and NEOM (an initiative driven by Saudi Vision 2030). He is a Special Advisor to the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Andrew serves as a trustee for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and the United States Council for International Business.

He has advised three U.S. presidents and served as co-chair of US President Barack Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, adviser to President Trump and now President Biden. He is Co-Chair of the Build Together Coalition that successfully advocated for the USD1.2T Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed by President Biden in 2020. Andrew was appointed as a Special Advisor to the Australian Government’s National COVID-19 Coordination Commission. He is a member of the Australian Design Council.

He is the best-selling author of Make it in America published in 2011 and his second book Leading Through Disruption will be launched in July 2023.

Nikos Stathopoulos serves as the Chairman of Europe and is a member of the Management Committee and Investment Committee at BC Partners, a premier international investment firm managing over $40 billion in assets. He joined BC Partners in 2005 and brings nearly three decades of expertise in private equity across a number of sectors and geographies. He leads the TMT investment vertical in Europe and has successfully led significant franchise investments for the firm, including Acuris, Pharmathen, ComHem, United Group, and Springer Nature. Previously, Nikos was Partner at Apax Partners in London, and prior to this worked as a Management Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in London.

Nikos is Chairman of the Board of United Group, Nova, DentalPro, Cigierre, Keesing and PetCity, Vice Chairman of the Board of Springer Nature and a member of the Board of Advanced. Nikos is a member of the Global Advisory Board of Harvard Business School, the Board of Trustees of the American School in London, the Board of The Hellenic Initiative, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Chairman of the BC Partners Foundation. Niko holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Business Administration from Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB). He is also a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council.

George James Tsunis presented his credentials to the President of the Hellenic Republic on May 10, 2022. He was nominated by President Biden and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 10, 2022.

Ambassador Tsunis is the proud Greek-American son of immigrants to the United States, with deep roots in the village of Platanos in the beautiful mountainous region of Nafpaktia. Growing up, his parents instilled in him the Hellenic ideals of καλοσύνη (goodness), αγάπη (love), and above all, φιλότιμο (the love of honor). He learned Greek as his first language. Deeply engaged with the Greek-American community, Ambassador Tsunis was a founding trustee of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, and is a trustee of the Hellenic Initiative among other roles.

Prior to his nomination, Ambassador Tsunis was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chartwell Hotels, LLC. He served as Chairman of Battery Park City Authority. He was also a Trustee for the New York City Convention Development Corporation and the New York City Convention Operating Corporation and helped manage a 1.5 million square foot expansion of the New York Convention Center, transforming it into one of the world’s most modern and beautiful convention centers. Ambassador Tsunis served as the chairman of the Nassau University Medical Center, a large public safety net hospital with a focus on providing care to vulnerable communities.

Previously, Ambassador Tsunis was a Counsel and Partner (Attorney of Law), at Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale, NY, and Legislative Attorney, New York City Council. He served as Counsel for Dix Hills Water District, Dix Hills, NY and Town of Huntington Committee on Open Space Preservation, Huntington, NY.

Ambassador Tsunis earned a B.A. from the New York University, New York, NY and a J.D. from St John’s University of Law, Queens, NY. He was an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Order of Saint Andrew), the highest ecclesiastical honor that can be bestowed upon a layman by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award for Long Island Cares and the lifetime achievement award for civic engagement for Long Island Business News. Ambassador Tsunis is married and has three children

Mr. Stamas is a senior partner with the international law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and has been widely recognized for many years as a leading Corporate lawyer. He focuses on public company and private equity mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities transactions, and counselling C-level executives and boards of directors on corporate governance matters.

Mr. Stamas also has been honored by The Washington Post and he has been profiled by Crain’s New York as one of New York’s 200 most well-connected business people. Earlier in his career, Mr. Stamas was named by The American Lawyer as one of the leading 45 lawyers in America under the age of 45.

Mr. Stamas previously served as Vice Chair of the Board of Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, Inc.; as a founding board member of FTI Consulting (NYSE); as a venture partner of international venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates; and as a member of numerous public and private corporate boards. He is an executive board member of the New York private equity firm MidOcean Partners. Mr. Stamas is a partner of Monumental Partners, which controls the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards; an investor and a member of the board of aXiomatic, a leading eSports platform that controls Team Liquid; and a partner of the Baltimore Orioles Baseball Club. Mr. Stamas is also on the National Advisory Council of Youth Inc. (and was recipient of the 2018 John C. Whitehead Leadership Award), and has previously served on numerous philanthropic and cultural boards, including The Shakespeare Theatre Company. He is a co-founder and Board President of The Hellenic Initiative, a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, and a director of Paris based Soparexo s.a., the parent corporation of Chateau Margaux.