Monday, May 7th, 2001 The Pierre Hotel, New York City

Mr. George V. Bolos
General Manager, Marketing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, 2004

Born in Athens in 1952. MBA from Northeastern University, speaking fluently both English and French.

His career was mainly in Marketing/Sales and General management.

Started in 1977 as Marketing Assistant in the leading milk industry and went up to the Managing Director job of the leading hypermarket chain in Greece (CONTINENT).

In the meantime he was employed by Nestle as Marketing Director and by Pepsi as Commercial Director and as Managing Director at a later stage.

Currently he is the General Manager of Marketing at the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004 SA responsible for the basic revenue generating activities such as sponsoring and licensing.