Evangelos Marinakis (, born 30 July 1967) is a Greek media mogul, shipowner, lyricist and member of the Piraeus city council. He is the founder and owner of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp and also the owner of the football clubs Olympiacos in Greece and Nottingham Forest in England. Early life Evangelos Marinakis was born in Piraeus, Greece on 30 July 1967. He is the only son of Miltiadis Marinakis and Irini Marinaki (née Karakatsani). His father, Miltiadis Marinakis, was born in Crete. He was a shipowner, a Member of the Greek Parliament and, at times, a financial supporter of Piraeus football club, Olympiacos. Marinakis holds a B.A. in 'International Business Administration' and an M.Sc. in 'International Relations'. Career Shipping Marinakis is the founder and chairman of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. According to Lloyd’s List, in November 2022, “his Capital Group controled nearly 100 vessels, exceeding 10.5m dwt and valued at about $9bn. During 2021 and the first 10 months of 2022, it was involved in 75 transactions worth $5.5bn. The 47 vessel acquisitions among these … could overwhelmingly be classed as investments in greener ships… In the past couple of years, Mr Marinakis’s biggest investment has been in the LNG sector, with a total of 14 174,000 cbm newbuildings ordered at Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hyundai Samho”. In October 2021 on the occasion of the listing of CPLP’s first bond on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) he said that “we have been engaged with financial markets since 2007 when we were first listed in New York at the Nasdaq stock exchange. Since then we have paid more than $800 million in dividends to our investors”. The bond issue raised €150 million. Registered offers exceeded €800 mln, with an overrun of the issue by 5.3 times with very significant interest from private and institutional investors. A second ATHEX public offering by CPLP of €100 million also generated impressive demand by Greek investors. The issue was oversubscribed 3.6 times, with offers reaching €360 million. The net proceeds of both offerings were used for vessel acquisitions, debt repayment and working capital purposes. The Capital Maritime Group which is controlled by the Marinakis family, managed a mixed fleet of more than 70 ships in 2017, including tankers, container ships and dry bulk carriers. Capital Group entered the LNG segment in 2018, ordering up to 10 LNG ships of a total value of