Giannis Alafouzos (, born 2 July 1957) is a Greek businessman, shipowner, and member of the Alafouzos family from Santorini. Early life Giannis Alafouzos was born in 1957 and is the son of businessman, shipowner and newspaper publisher Aristeidis Alafouzos. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in economics and history. During his student years, he was an athlete, in particular the 100m sprint. He is a sailor with significant international distinctions. He is married and has three children. Shipping In the early 1980s, after completing his postgraduate studies, Giannis Alafouzos followed in the steps of his father's career in shipping and worked towards the expansion of his family's shipping company, Glafki (Hellas) Maritime Company. He served as managing director of Kyklades Maritime Corporation, a company operating a modern tanker fleet, and also founded the shipping company Ermis Maritime Corporation. Today he continues his successful career in maritime business. Presently, Kyklades Maritime Corporation is expanding its fleet with two new buildings currently under construction in Japan. Media Giannis Alafouzos is the president and managing director of SKAI media group. In 1989, he bought the radio news station SKAI 100.3 and then founded the TV station of the same name. Today, the media group includes the TV station SKAI, 3 radio stations, SKAI 100.3, Melodia 99.2 and SPORT FM 94.6 and various new portals such as skaikairos.gr and sport-fm.gr. He is also the publisher of the daily morning newspaper, Kathimerini. Philanthropy Giannis Alafouzos supports many environmental programs and philanthropic activities, organizing and promoting these through the SKAI media outlets and his non-profit organization Oloi Mazi Boroume (English translation: Together We Can). Under his management, Skai Group and Skai Perivallon (English translation: Skai Environment) have organized many actions to clean territories in Greece and recycling. SKAI, along with Kathimerini and WWF Hellas established the "Parnitha Observatory", an action to inform people about the restoration of the burned areas. Since the beginning of 2010, Oloi Mazi Boroume has acted as an ongoing social campaign focused on raising public awareness and organizing events to support several causes and groups (organizing concerts to raise funds for the poor, collecting clothes, food and medicine, setting up soup kitchens around Greece and other similar activities). Oloi Mazi Boroume, as in almost all of his nationwide philanthropic operations, works in close collaboration with the Greek Orthodox Church, aiming to help victims of the Greek financial