George A. Antoniadis is the founder, president and CEO of PlaneSense, Inc. Founded in 1995, PlaneSense is one of the three industry leaders in the aircraft fractional ownership space globally. Mr. Antoniadis earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School. Before establishing PlaneSense, Mr. Antoniadis was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Nikolaos Monoyios graduated Athens College in 1968 and holds a BA in Economics, Magna cum Laude, from Princeton University, an MA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University. He is a private investor and a Chartered Financial Analyst. He retired as senior vice president and head of the Main Street Team of mutual funds at Oppenheimer Funds in 2008.  He was named to Barron’s Top 100 Fund Managers list for five consecutive years.

Nikos is the son of Dimitrios Monoyios who taught Greek and History at Athens College and also served as Vice-Principal.  As the recipient of a scholarship that changed the course of his life, Nikos and his wife Dr. Valerie Brackett established the Dimitrios and Kalliopi Monoyios Memorial Scholarship in 2018.  The six-year full scholarship is awarded annually to a student entering the A Gymnasion on the basis of Merit and Need.

Alexandros Poulias is a passionate entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Televida Group, a global provider of tech solutions, as well as the founder and chairman of Doctor Online, a pioneering telemedicine company.  Prior to Televida, Alex founded and managed a retail chain in Latin America and worked as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers. Alex is a director of the Poulias foundation and the Little Giants program, which fosters leadership at a young age.

Alex received his AB degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1995 and MBA from Harvard Business School in 2001.  He is a member of the YPO, a part-time professor of entrepreneurship at Universidad Francisco Marroquin and an early stage investor.

George Dangas graduated from Athens College in 1983. He is a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Surgery (Vascular) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, a Founding Physician of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York City and Professor of Cardiology at his alma mater the National Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the University of Vienna, Austria. He has received multiple professional distinctions from international societies, served as Chief of Cardiology at Onasseion, a Trustee and Master of both the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI), and as President of SCAI 2023-24, as well as of the Hellenic Medical Society of New York for several years.  He spearheaded the Global Hellenic Medical & Bioscientific Network in 2009 and is Chair, Advisory Board of the World Hellenic BioMedical Association.

Personal recollection: Among the many valuable and memorable moments in Athens College, I would like to underline the terrific sense of national pride and achievement I felt upon receiving the Physics-Vakis Award, since I learnt it was named after a hero of Hellenic values in the era of 2^nd World War resistance.

Why I am involved in the Athens College administration:  I aim to contribute to the 21^st century vision of our school while keeping with its traditions and the historic values of Hellenism.

Dimitri Gondicas is the Director of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Hellenic Studies Department. He is the co-founder of the Princeton Club of Greece, and directs alumni relations for the Seeger Center. He is the co-author of Greek Today: A Course In Modern Greek Language and Culture which was supported by the Ivy League Language Consortium.  He was honored by the Academy of Athens for his long-term contributions to Hellenic Studies and Greek scholarship.

Konstantinos Kanellopoulos graduated from Athens College in 1982. He received his BA in Economics from Columbia University in 1986 and started his career in his family’s steel business in Greece. Following its acquisition by a European conglomerate, he further continued his studies by earning an MBA from Columbia University in 1993.  He then, for a number of years, was a banker in the Private Wealth Management divisions of Goldman Sachs and Citibank in New York, London and Athens. He is a member of the Management Board of the shipping company Thenamaris Holdings Inc, and Managing Director of Idea Management SAM, a portfolio management company. He resides in Monte Carlo where, by appointment of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, is a member of the Principality’s Strategic Planning Committee.

Bill McDiarmid is the Alumni Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, and former Dean of Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He received a B.A. with Highest Honors from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1969 and a doctorate in educational policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1984.  Professor McDiarmid was a Teaching Fellow at the College in 1970-71. He returned to the College to teach History and English and serve as College Counselor and Special Assistant to the President from 1973-77.  He subsequently has served on the faculties of five U.S. universities, including Michigan State University, the University of Alaska, and the University of Washington. He is a Founding Dean of the Deans for Impact, a non-profit in Austin, Texas. Bill continues to conduct research on and write about educational policy and reform and has published over 100 referred articles and research monographs as well as six books.

Alexander Nehamas graduated from Athens College in 1964 and studied Philosophy and Economics at Swarthmore College (B.A. 1967) and Philosophy at Princeton University (Ph.D. 1971). He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh (1971-1986) and the University of Pennsylvania (1986-1989), and he returned to Princeton in 1989 as the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Comparative Literature.

He has also taught, as Mills Professor (1983) and Sather Professor (1993) at the University of California/Berkeley and has given many lectures in universities such as Yale and Edinburgh. At Princeton, he has been Chairman of the Council on the Humanities, Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies (awarded a prize by the Academy of Athens in 2000), and Founding Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

He holds honorary doctorates from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the International Hellenic University, and the Athens School of Fine Arts of the National Metsovian Polytechnic University. He was President of the American Philosophical Association, and is currently a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

He has received several prizes, among them, the Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities from Princeton University, the Premio Internazionale Nietzsche and the Mellon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.  He was made a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic.  In 2003 he was honored by the Academy of Athens for his contribution to Hellenic Studies. In 2018 he was elected a regular member of the Academy.

A boarder at Athens College for ten years, he developed friendships that have lasted a lifetime.  He remains in touch with his classmates when he is away and he meets regularly with them whenever he returns to Greece.  His bonds with them—bonds that only the intimacy of a common life could possibly create and maintain—are one of the most satisfying aspects of his life and a source of deep gratitude to our school.

Dr. Salapatas was the Managing Director of Helliniki Halyvourgia S.A. He graduated from Athens College in 1955 and continued his studies at the National Technical University where he graduated in 1960. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. in 1961 and 1966. Dr. Salapatas actively participated in numerous Greek organizations. He joined the Board of Trustees in 1992.

Costis Maglaras graduated from Athens College in 1987. He completed his studies in Electrical Engineering, first at Imperial College, and subsequently at Stanford University. He joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1998, where he currently serves as Dean of the School, and David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business.

His current research focuses on quantitative finance, social networks, and data science. His work with industry focuses in technology and in finance. He lives in New York with his wife, Niki, and three daughters.

Maria-Lisa Farmakidis is an Executive Director in Debt Capital Markets at Standard Chartered Bank New York where she is responsible for the North American Corporate Investment Grade business. Prior to SCB, Maria-Lisa held positions with JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, PIMCO and Deutsche Bank.

Maria-Lisa is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in History, Magna Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa, and holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School.

Maria-Lisa is passionate about Education and the role it can play in changing people’s lives. She has mentored students in Technology Entrepreneurship at the at the City College of New York and served as a judge in entrepreneurship competitions run by The MIT Enterprise Forum European Chapters.

Jeff Wachtel is the executive director emeritus of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford University, having worked at the University for 35 years.   He served as senior assistant to Stanford’s President John Hennessy from 2000-2016. In this role, he provided advice and counsel to President Hennessy and represented the President’s Office to individuals and organizations within and outside the university. In 2017, he received the Kenneth M. Cuthbertson Award, which recognizes exceptional service to Stanford University.

Jeff holds a Bachelor’s in Urban Studies and Psychology from Stanford, a Master’s in City Planning from The University of California-Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. He has maintained his connection with Athens College since he was a High School exchange student from Horace Mann, an experience that deepened his appreciation of Greece and international exchange.

Jeff plays the double bass with various musical groups including the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra for which he is chair of its Board of Directors.

Memorable activity while a student at Athens College:  playing on the school’s varsity basketball team and living in the Boarding Department.

Marina Hatsopoulos is Board Chair of Levitronix Technologies, the worldwide leader in magnetically-levitated bearingless motor technology, and President of Hellenic Innovation Network, which serves as a bridge for startups expanding from Greece to the U.S. She is a Board Member of ALBA Business School in Greece and on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She is founding advisor of MIT startup Inkbit. She is on the Advisory Board of the Nantucket Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum Greece (now called StartSmart SEE), Eurobank’s EGG accelerator, Mindspace Entrepreneurship Program and MIT ReACT. She was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early leader in 3D printing out of MIT, and has served on numerous corporate boards, both public and private. She was a Director of Cynosure Inc., a $400 million leader in the laser aesthetics market; GSI Group, a $300 million supplier of laser-based equipment; and Contex Holding, a $100 million leading manufacturer of large-format scanners.

She speaks regularly on topics related to entrepreneurship at MIT, Brown, and other institutions, and profiles about her have run in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Boston Business Journal, Boston Magazine, and Technology Review. Her business writing has appeared in Venturebeat, The Observer, CEO World Magazine, Design News, Time Compression Technologies, and Jumpstart: Launching Your Business Venture, Profitably and Successfully (Aspatore, 2003). She was Speaker, Tedx. She has also written prize-winning essays and short stories which have been published in Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary, and other literary journals. She holds B.A. degrees from Brown University in Math and in Music, and an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.