The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation is organized under the UK legal form of a company “limited by guarantee” which in effect is owned by its members.
These members are the equivalent of the shareholders while the trustees are the equivalent of directors of the company.
The seven trustees and six associate members below, when combined, are the 13 members that “own” the Foundation.
OUR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
ORLA MURPHY
Ms Orla Murphy is the partner of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. They live in Monaco where their daughter Aria Haji-Ioannou was born on the 29th of May , 2018. Ms Murphy was born in Ireland, obtained a Bachelor degree in equine sciences from Limerick University and moved to Monaco in 2008, where she worked as a sales executive for interior design firm Boutsen Design specialising, in yachts and private aviation.
ARIA HAJI-IOANNOU
Aria Haji-Ioannou is the daughter of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and Ms Orla Murphy.
TRACY GHORI
UK CHARITIES PROJECTS CO – ORDINATOR
tracy.ghori@stelios.com
(Updated 22nd of January 2018)
Tracy has considerable experience in marketing, fundraising and publicity in the not-for-profit sector, having spent nine years working for the registered charity Trestle Theatre Company as their General Manager where she was instrumental in raising funds, booking tours in the UK and overseas and increasing audience figures.
Tracy left Trestle in 2000 to join Stelios at easyGroup, taking on the role of Business Support Manager in support of the easy businesses (except easyJet). This position eventually grew to encompass the management of the day-to-day operations of over 100 staff.
For the last 10 years she is delighted to be working as UK Charity Projects Co-ordinator for the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation and is involved in all Stelios’ giving back activities in the UK.
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ALAN MARSH
MBE FICS
Alan Marsh’s professional career has been in the Maritime and Shipping Industry. Alan has been associated with the Haji-Ioannou family for nearly 50 years having acted first for Stelios’ father Loucas as he built up his Ship owning empire Troodos Shipping and then when Stelios himself created a ship-owning company in 1992. Alan was the former CEO of Braemar Shipping Group PLC as well as a Director of ITIC.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers for whom he was President in 2010 and Past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.
He is a VP of MSSC (Marine Society Sea Cadets), VP of the RNLI, Non-Executive Director and Trustee of IFAN Maritime (International Foundation aids to Navigation), Trustee and Vice Chairman of Annual National Service for Seafarers, a Younger Brother at Trinity House, member of Hon Company of Master Mariners, Freeman of Waterman and Lighterman Company, member of the Baltic Exchange and a development Board member of Wetwheels UK.
KEN GRIGGS
Ken was born in Cyprus, educated in England, and after working in various overseas posts spent the majority of his career in London as a Director of a merchant bank. He now lives in Monaco where he delivers tax solutions on super yachts. Ken is also the Treasurer and a Board member of the Gustavia Yacht Club.
PANICOS HASSAPIS
A practicing Chartered Accountant based in Limassol, Cyprus. Panicos studied economics in the UK and then he joined a City of London firm of Chartered Accountants where he trained and obtained his practicing certificate. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He shares common family roots with Stelios and has known him since Stelios’ childhood years. Panicos’ accounting firm provides its services to Stelios Philanthropic Foundation in Cyprus.
LORA GALITZINE
Lora Galitzine has recently left Coutts & Co, a Private Bank in London, after 18 years, to pursue her charitable and other interests. She was a Client Director in the UHNW team of the International and Family Office division, where she managed the complex and multi-faceted wealth requirements of International families. Previously, she worked at Cedar Partners a multi-strategy hedge fund, the Private Bank & Trust Co (the precursor to EFG Bank) and Julius Baer Private Bank in London. She started her career as a broker at the correspondents of Shearson, Lehman/ American Express, in Athens.
She received her Master’s degree in International Finance and Banking from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, in New York. Lora is currently a Trustee of the Hellenic College Trust, a registered charity aiming to support endeavours that promote and foster Greek culture, history and language.
Lora previously served as a member of the Board of Governors, Executive and Finance Committee Member and Chair of Marketing at the Hellenic College of London, a bi-lingual and bi-cultural independent school. She was also a Mentor with Arrival Education, an organisation supporting underachieving, ethnically-diverse pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds within a structured leadership programme. Her mentee has gone from under-achieving in school to working for a global bank. Lora is Greek by nationality, but born, raised and educated abroad.