IN MEMORIAM 1952-2022
Arts patron and leading businessman, Ulysses Kyriacopoulos was the Chairman of the companies S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. and Motodynamics S.A, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the General Council of the Bank of Greece. He was the Chairman of the Federation of Greek Industries, UNICE Special Representative for Mediterranean Affairs and former Vice President of UNICE, the leading organization that represents employers΄ interests in Europe.
Ulysses served as member of the Board of Lambda Development SA and of Lavipharm SA. and on the Βoard of Air Liquide Hellas S.A., Delta Holding S.A, and J.Boutaris & Son Holding S.A. as well as on the Advisory boards of INSEAD and Athens College. He was also formerly the President of the Greek National Opera and Vice President of the Hellenic Exchanges Holdings SA. .
He studied Mining Engineering at Montanuniversitaet Loeben in Austria and at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England. He received his M.B.A. at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France.
Ulysses was born in New York in 1952, spoke four languages. He was married to Nicole and had three children.
Voicing his condolences, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said Kyriacopoulos left “a difficult-to-replace void” in Greek economy and society, “as he combined a successful business career with an interest in the welfare of his employees, industrial tradition combined with extroverted innovation, cosmopolitanism with a quiet patriotism, and a contribution to the arts with anonymous assistance to weaker fellow human beings.”