The Australian Financial Review has published its Rich List for 2022 and among the names are at least 10 Australians of Greek origin.
Who are they and what do they do? The Greek Herald guess.
51. Nick Politis, $2.23 billion
Nick Politis is the owner of WFM Motors and director of Eagers Automative. He is Australia’s most successful car salesman, with an empire that includes dozens of his own car dealerships in Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland. He is also president of NRL club, Sydney Roosters.
LEARN MORE: How Nick Politis went from Cythera to one of Australia’s billionaires.
108. Nicholas Paspaley and his family, $128 billion
Nicholas Paspaley is the Executive Chairman of the Paspaley Group of Companies. The Group has a pearl retail business, an aeronautical and maritime services division, pastoral and tourism operations and a real estate portfolio.
The business, which employs more than 1200 people, is based in Darwin and owned by Nicholas Paspaley jnr, Roslynne Bracher and Marilynne Paspaley.
LEARN MORE: The new Paspaley collection transforms deep-sea pearls into refined jewelry.
118. Con Makris and his family, $1.2 billion
Con Makris is the chairman of the Makris Group and although he has gradually sold off his property portfolio in recent years, he retains significant assets on the Gold Coast and shopping centers in Adelaide and Melbourne.
LEARN MORE: Billionaire Con Makris puts $200 million worth of shopping centers up for sale.
126. Nick Andrianakos and his family, $1.09 billion
Nick Andrianakos is the founder of Milemaker Petroleum and Nikos Property. The Milemaker chain had 54 sites when it was sold to Caltex in a $94 million deal in late 2016. At that time, Andrianakos was already investing in commercial property, including at 50 and 60 Flinders Street in Adelaide, and he built a hotel in ancient Greece. capital of Nafplio. And above all, Andrianakos also retained the full ownership of the service station sites.
LEARN MORE: ‘I was lucky’: how Nick Andrianakos went from firefighter to Australian billionaire.
138. Spiros Alysandratos, $995 million
Spiros Alysandratos is the founder of Consolidated Travel, one of Australia’s largest behind-the-scenes travel companies. His company sells ticketing technology and services to airlines and travel agents, as well as travel insurance products.
139. Dennis Bastas, $990 million
Dennis Bastas is the founder, chairman and CEO of Arrotex Pharmaceuticals. Arrotex manufactures about a third of the drugs dispensed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Program and generates annual sales of $1.1 billion. With Canadian investors, he also owns Juno Pharmaceuticals, which makes post-patent drugs for hospitals, and chairs the genomics company myDNA.
141. Théo Karedis, $952 million
Theo Karedis is the co-founder of Theo’s Liquor and Arkadia Property Group. The Karedis family’s fortune came from the Theo’s bottle shop chain sold to Coles in 2002 for $175 million. Arkadia owns 25 mainly commercial properties in Australia.
145. Harry Stamoulis and his family, $935 million
Stamoulis’ fortune was built by the late Spiros Stamoulis, who emigrated from Greece to Melbourne at the age of 12 in 1950. A former Australian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling champion, Stamoulis tried to build a yogurt factory before establishing Gold Medal Drinks in 1969. His success led to investments in Melbourne rock radio station 3XY, the Greek newspaper Ta Nea and numerous real estate assets, a business overseen by his son Harry to this day.
170. George Koukis, $788 million
Koukis emigrated from Greece in 1971, landed a job with Qantas in 1973 and, when no one else volunteered, computerized the airline’s managed accounting system. In 1993, he teamed up with venture capital to pay $948,000 for a Swiss banking software maker, renamed it Temenos, and grew it to $2.1 billion in 2001. Koukis sold his stake at less than 3 percent and in April of last year. left the Temenos board of directors. He founded the software and IT company Koukis Aviation.
175. Kerry Harmanis, $766 million
Kerry Harmanis is one of Western Australia’s most successful mining executives and investors, earning more than $400 million from the sale of his former Jubilee Mines nickel deposit to Xstrata in a 3-year deal. 1 billion dollars in 2007. He now holds stakes in several listed mineral exploration companies.
Source: The Australian Financial Review.
