Thanasis Giannakopoulos

Thanasis Giannakopoulos Θανάσης Γιαννακόπουλος
Born	Thanasis Giannakopoulos 1931 Athens Greece
Residence	Athens Greece
Nationality	Greece
Occupation	businessman
Board member of	Vianex
Relatives	Pavlos Giannakopoulos (Brother) Dimitrios Giannakopoulos (Nephew)

Thanasis Giannakopoulos (born in 1931) (Greek: Θανάσης Γιαννακόπουλος) is a Greek businessman, and a former pro sports club owner. His family has an estimated net worth of a €1 billion business empire.

Giannakopoulos and his brother, Pavlos, are the owners of the pharmaceutical corporation Vianex, which was founded in 1924, by their father, Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, as a small local import and distribution firm. Vianex currently manufactures and markets, in Greece and elsewhere, a variety of products, in collaboration with leading international firms. The company reported net sales of €240.2 million euros in 2012.

In 2006, Pavlos' personal fortune was estimated to be €400 million euros, one half of the Giannakopoulos brothers' €800 million euros business empire.

From 1987 to 2012, the Giannakopoulos brothers managed Panathinaikos B.C., Panathinaikos V.C., and all of the Panathinaikos club's amateur sports sections, from the athletics department to the water polo department. Thanasis was also the Chairman of the volleyball and amateur sections. Their involvement with the club brought Panathinaikos' basketball team their greatest successes, in both domestic and European competitions.

Thanasis was also President of the basketball club, from 2002 to 2012. Through 2012, Panathinaikos had won 13 out of the last 15 Greek Basket League championships (excluding the 2001–02, and 2011–12 seasons) and the EuroLeague championship in the years 1996, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. The club, during that time, also featured some of the best basketball players from Greece, along with star players from abroad, such as Byron Scott, Dominique Wilkins and Dejan Bodiroga.

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