Businessman Dimitris Kontominas passed away at the age of 83.
He has been hospitalized in recent months in a private hospital as he was facing serious health problems.
Dimitris Kontominas was a Greek businessman active in the field of security, television, cinemas and retail.
He was born on June 3, 1939 in Athens. He studied at the American University of Beirut.
He initially worked as an insurer at American Life (ALICO), while in 1969 he co-founded the insurance company Interamerican with Alexandros Tambouras.
In addition to Interamerican, he had founded or acquired a number of other companies, including: Interbank (acquired in 1997 and absorbed by Eurobank), Intertech (Panasonic’s exclusive representative in Greece), Euroclinic Athens, Novabank ( in 2006 it was renamed Millennium Bank and in 2013 it was acquired and absorbed by Piraeus Bank), the fleet of aircraft and helicopters InterJet, the organic farming company GreenFarm.
For the period 1998–2001 he was the owner of the football team of Aris Thessaloniki.
For twenty years he was co-owner and later owner of Alpha TV and local radio stations of the same name in Athens and Thessaloniki, the Village Roadshow Greece cinemas, the Channel 9 TV in Athens and Thessaloniki, the Mediterra Winery in Crete and mediterrawines.gr
He was proclaimed “Archon Grand Protestant of the Ecumenical Throne”[2] from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and “Great Benefactor” from the Great and Elderly Diocese of Chalcedon.
He had a daughter and two grandchildren.
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