Evangelos Marinakis & family
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Shipping, soccer
- Industry
- Logistics
- Residence
- Piraeus
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
Assets
- Alter Ego Media42,747,000 shares @ --AEM-GR
- Capital Clean Energy Carriers34,462,727 shares @ --CCEC-US
Biography
Evangelos Marinakis owns shipping group Capital Maritime Trading Corp. as well as a media conglomerate and stakes in several soccer teams.
Through his Capital Maritime Trading Corp. he owns several private shipping firms, as well as a 59% stake in publicly traded Capital Clean Energy Carriers.
He bought 80% for English soccer team Nottingham Forest in 2017. Under his ownership, the firm was promoted to the English Premier League in 2022.
He also owns 86% of Olympiacos, Greece's most successful soccer team, and invested in Portuguese soccer team Rio Ave in November 2023.
Marinakis owns Alter Ego Media, a Greek media group that owns two of the country's largest newspapers plus the second-largest TV channel; he took it public in 2025.
About
In 2014, Marinakis won a city council seat in Piraeus, a port city south of Athens where his companies are based.
He wrote the lyrics for "Excitement," a song by Greek pop star Natassa Theodoridou released in 2021.