Events

HABA’s 2011 Executive of the Year Award Dinner

  • 38 East 37th Street, New York, NY 10016

  • Thursday, June 9, 2011

  • 6:00-8:00pm

The Officers, Directors and Members

of the

Hellenic American Bankers Association, Inc.

are pleased to announce that

 Mr. C. Dean Metropoulos

Chairman & CEO of CDM&Co.

is HABA’s 2011 Executive of the Year

as HABA celebrates its 29th anniversary of service to the Greek American community


HABA’s 2011 Executive of the Year Award Dinner

will take place at the

Union League Club of New York

38 East 37th Street, New York, NY 10016

the evening of Thursday, June 9, 2011

5:45pm Registration, 6:00pm Reception, 7:00pm Dinner


Master of Ceremonies

John Metaxas

Anchor & Reporter

WCBS News Radio 880 & WCBS TV


Admission is by prepaid reservation only and business attire is required.

Registration: $200/HABA Member, $250/Guest All-Inclusive

Benefactor and Supporter Tables are Available

SEATING IS LIMITED: You may register online by clicking the button below:

For additional information or questions, please contact info@haba.org.


C. Dean Metropoulos is Chairman and CEO of C. Dean Metropoulos & Company (“CDM”), 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. and Europe.  Many of these were subsequently taken public or sold to strategic corporations.  He is very well known in the private equity, investment banking, and financial community.

CDM has partnered with several high-profile private equity firms including Hicks Muse, J.P. Morgan Partners and J. W. Childs.  His firm currently has a partnership with Apollo for consumer transactions requiring over $500M in equity.  Some of the “buy-build” private equity transactions led by CDM include:

– Stella Foods
– The Morningstar Group, Inc.
– International Home Foods, Inc.
– Ghirardelli Chocolate Co.
– Mumm and Perrier Jouet Champagnes
– Hillsdown Holdings, PLC
– Pinnacle Foods Group, Inc.
– National Waterworks
– Solar Marine
– Pabst Brewing Company

C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. has been involved in more than 72 acquisitions involving over $12 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.  Dean also sits on the board of a number of companies in both the United States and Europe.  He also invests in high quality real estate properties and boutique luxury hotels.

Mr. Metropoulos has been featured in numerous national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, Forbes, Fortune, Brand Week and Investor’s Business Daily.

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.

Our Mission:

HABA is a professional networking organization that has strived to serve the professional and educational interests of the Hellenic community by sponsoring lectures, seminars, receptions with guest speakers and other events such as book-signings, holiday celebrations and job fairs.

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