Executive Administration
President Chris Spirou
Mr. Spirou is an international business consultant and President of the Hellenic American Union Board of Directors. In 1984, he was the Democratic Nominee for Governor of New Hampshire. He has served as Democratic Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and as Chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
Executive Vice President Leonidas Phoebus Koskos
Mr. Koskos has served as the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Union since 1995. He has been the CEO of large industries and organizations in Greece; President of several trade organizations in Greece and Brussels; and lectures on the philosophy of law and management.
Board of Trustees
Senator Lou D’Allesandro, Chairman, is the Vice President for Finance in the New Hampshire Senate. He has served in leadership positions in NH State government for over 25 years. He holds an honorary doctorate from Daniel Webster College as well as degrees from the University of New Hampshire and Rivier College. He is a member of The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Inc. and former Vice Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston's Board of Directors. Most recently, Senator D'Allesandro served as chairman of the New England Board of Higher Education.
Richard A. Gustafson, Ph.D., Vice Chairman is President Emeritus of Southern New Hampshire University, and served on the New Hampshire Postsecondary Commission for many years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Institute for Educational Management, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Management and Educational Research with Computer Programming and Statistics from the University of Connecticut in 1970. In 1999, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Thailand.
Attorney George Roussos, Secretary is a partner in the law firm of Orr & Reno, in Concord, New Hampshire. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Georgetown Law School.
William Kanteres, Treasurer --Mr. Kanteres is President of Kanteres Real Estate in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he has been involved in the real estate business for 31 years, focusing on commercial and investment properties. He was a founding Director of Share Our Strength, one of the largest hunger relief organizations in the US, and has served on its Board for 20 years.
Kostas Alexakis is an entrepreneur in Baltimore, Maryland, concentrating on software development, real estate development, and the restaurant business. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University, and a BA from New York Regent’s University.
Nicholas Christodoulopoulos has been a shipowner since 1973. He is President of the Fidetrust Investments LTD., of London (UK), former Vice-President of the Greek tourist shipowners’ association (2000-2003), and a member of the legal committee of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping for 18 years. Mr. Christodoulopoulos earned a law degree from the University of Athens (L.L.B., 1960), a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Rome (1963) and a LL.M. in Comparative Law from Columbia University (1966). While of Greek nationality, he resides in New York City.
Eleanor Dunfey-Freiberger
Eleanor Dunfey-Freiburger is University Professor of Ethics and Civic Engagement at Southern New Hampshire University, where she has taught since 1984. In 2001, she was the first appointee to the Distinguished Chair in Ethics, the University’s first endowed Chair. Among other responsibilities in her current role, she is working with several colleagues developing an interdisciplinary course, Ethics, Environment and the Economy. She is Co-chair and Managing Director of Global Citizens Circle, a non-profit educational forum. She authored two books in partnership with a former student with cerebral palsy. She was active in her family’s restaurant business which later became Omni Hotels and has served as Faculty Administrator to the Culinary Institute. She has been the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from South New Hampshire University, the NH Irish Catholic Woman of the Year award, the Ulster Unionist Party Distinguished Service and Leadership Award, and the Award for Courageous Service from the Sisters of Notre Dame. She is a board member of the NH Endowment for Health and has been extensively involved in issues of peace, education, non-profit development, and ethics at the community, national, and international level for over 30 years. Professor Dunfey-Freiberger earned her MA from Emmanuel College, in 1960 and her MA from University of San Francisco, in 1970. She has also studied at Yale University, Harvard Newman Center and Boston University.
Tom Hendrickson
Tom Hendrickson is an entrepreneur, attorney and businessman from Raleigh, North Carolina. His business activities include real estate development, commercial real estate investment and management, furniture and specialty import wholesale business, and thoroughbred horse racing and breeding. He is also the Founding Chairman of North State Bank and serves on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is a co-founder and former Chairman and President of Horticultural Asset Management, Inc. He co-founded Triangle Environmental, Inc., which he sold to TRC Companies, Inc., a NYSE publicly traded (TRR) civil and environmental engineering, consulting, and remediation firm. As a part of that sale, he remained for two years as President of TRC Triangle, Inc. and was a Senior Vice President of TRC Companies, Inc. He also served on the U.S. Department of Commerce Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee, the U.S. Department of Commerce District Export Council, and the N.C. State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Board of Advisors. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation, Inc and the N.C. Thoroughbred Association. Attorney Hendrickson earned his B.S. from North Carolina State University, School of Ag and Life Sciences, in 1979, where he was student body president and member of the Board of Trustees, and received his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, in 1984.
C. Thomas McMillen played for 11 years in the N.B.A., with the New York Knicks, the Atlanta Hawks, and the Washington Bullets. He retired from the N.B.A. in 1986 to run for Congress, and served 3 consecutive terms in the US House of Representatives (from 1987 to 1993) representing the 4th Congressional District of Maryland, and serving on the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee. In 1993, he was named by President Clinton to co-chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. While a student at the University of Maryland, Mr. McMillen was a three-time All-American in basketball, an academic All-American, and a member of the 1972 Olympic Team. He was the first (and remains the only) student from the University of Maryland to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1978, he received a Master of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University. Mr. McMillen was inducted into the GTE Academic All-American Hall of Fame in May 1988 and is a charter member. From 1991-2003, he served on the Knight Foundation’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics investigating abuses within college sports. In 2002, he was chosen as one of the ACC’s Top 50 players of all time. Currently, Mr. McMillen serves as Vice-Chairman of Fortress International Group, a mission critical firm, as CEO/President of Homeland Security Capital Corp, a homeland security consolidator, and as Chairman of Washington Capital Advisors, LLC., a merchant bank He also serves as a member of the University of Maryland System Board of Regents, as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland College Park School of Public Affairs, and as a member of the Executive Board of the University of Maryland College Park Center for American Politics and Citizenship. He is the Chairman of the University of Oxford U.S. Sports Campaign Committee and the co-author of Out-of-Bounds, a book on sports and ethics in America.
Joan Menard
Joan Menard is a former educator in the Somerset School System, Menard received a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1967 and a Master of Education degree in 1971 from Bridgewater State College. In 1993, she received a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Education Administration from Boston College. Ms. Menard was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1999, and currently serves as Majority Whip. Senator Menard was appointed to the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) by the Governor in Sept. 2003. She became Chair of NEBHE at the 2008 Annual Board Meeting in Boston. She serves on the Finance Committee by virtue of being Chair-Elect, and she is Chair she will also be on the Investment Committee. She is also a member of the NEBHE Executive Board.
Nicholas Mitropoulos is a consultant for the Monitor Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has served as Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Director of the ARCO Forum, and Director of Personnel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Harold C. Pachios is the managing partner of Preti-Flaherty, a New England regional law firm. He was nominated by President Clinton to the United State Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy in 1993, appointed Chairman in 1999, and re-appointed in 2003. Attorney Pachios is also Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maine School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his J.D. from Georgetown University.
Artemis Simopoulos, M.D. is the Founder and President of The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, a non-profit educational organization in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a major in Chemistry, and a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine. From 1978 to 1986, Dr. Simopoulos chaired the Nutrition Coordinating Committee at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Since 1984, her research has been on the evolutionary aspects of diet and the omega-6/omega-3 balance. She is the author of The Omega Diet, now in its second edition.
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