Portrait of Evangelos Marinakis & family

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Evangelos Marinakis & family

Net worth $7.0B

Shipping, soccer · Greece

Born
Jul 30, 1967
Age
58
Source
Shipping, soccer
Residence
Piraeus
Citizenship
Greece
Marital status
Married
Children
4
Education

Net worth over time

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.
  • 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.

Financial assets

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