Dean Metropoulos

Dean Metropoulos
Born	Charles Dean Metropoulos May 1946 (age 71) Tripoli, Greece
Residence	Palm Beach, Florida, US
Nationality	Greek American
Alma mater	Babson College
Occupation	Chairman and CEO, C. Dean Metropoulos and Company
Known for	Hostess Brands and Pabst Brewing Company
Net worth	US$2.4 billion (Forbes 2016)
Children	Daren Metropoulos (son), Evan Metropoulos (son)

Charles Dean Metropoulos (Greek: Ντιν Μητρόπουλος; born May 1946 in Tripoli) is an American billionaire investor and businessman of Greek descent. He was the owner of Pabst Brewing Company, which was founded by Jacob Best in 1844.

On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

Metropoulos was ten years old when he and his parents emigrated from Greece to the US and came to Watertown, Massachusetts.

Metropoulos has a bachelor's degree and an MBA from the private business school Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

At age 25, he went to Geneva, Switzerland, to become a financial director for GTE International’s (now Verizon) European, Middle Eastern and African operations. Later he returned to the U.S. as the company’s youngest controller.

Some of the buy-build private equity transactions of Metropoulos have included Pinnacle Foods, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, International Home Foods, Pabst Brewing Company, The Morningstar Group, Inc. (sold to Suiza Foods which has become Dean Foods) and Solar Marine ("a private, European based, international dry cargo shipping company") and Mumm's/Perrier-Jouët champagnes.

Metropoulos is the executive chairman and chief executive officer of C. Dean Metropoulos & Company. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. As of 2011, C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. has been involved in over 72 acquisitions with over $12 billion in invested capital. The company jointly owns Hostess Brands along with Apollo Global Management.

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