2014 Annual Awards Gala
Saturday Mar 22, 2014 in Los AngelesC. Dean Metropoulos is Chairman and CEO of Metropoulos & Co., a boutique acquisition and management firm with offices in New York and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Mr.
Metropoulos has spent the past 25 years building, restructuring and
growing numerous businesses in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. Many of
these were subsequently taken public or sold to strategic corporations.
Metropoulos & Co. is very well known in the private equity,
investment banking, and financial community, and is widely recognized as
the leading investment firm in the consumer space having acquired and
repositioned more than 300 brands worldwide.
Metropoulos & Co. has been involved in more than 78 acquisitions involving over $48 billion in invested capital over the past 25 years, and has earned some of the most attractive returns on Wall Street. Highly respected for his integrity and commitment, Mr. Metropoulos is a sought after partner by many of the major private equity firms.
Mr. Metropoulos and his wife Marianne, who is President and Principal
of Aegean Entertainment, a movie production company in Beverly Hills,
reside in Greenwich, CT and are the parents of two sons, Evan and
Daren.