Evangelos Marinakis & family

About Me

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.