Dimitris daskalopoulos biography examples

Greek businessman and art collector

Dimitris Daskalopoulos, OBE (Greek: Δημήτρης Δασκαλόπουλος; born 1957, Athens) is a Greek entrepreneur who is known as founder and chairman of DAMMA Holdings SA, a financial services and investment company.

He served as the Chairman of the Board of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) for 8 consecutive years (2006-2014). He is SEV’s Honorary President.^[1]

Career

From 1983 to 2007, Daskalopoulos was the principal owner, Chairman and CEO of Delta Holdings/Vivartia SA, Greece’s largest food conglomerate.

In 2007, Greece’s Marfin Investment Group bought 30 percent of Vivartia for 550 million euros ($758 million) from Daskalopoulos and Spyridon Theodoropoulos, its founding shareholders.^[2]

In addition to his business activities, Daskalopoulos served as Vice President of the Confederation of European Business from 2013 to 2015, under the leadership of its president Emma Marcegaglia.

In 2016