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AHI Hosts Milestone
50th Anniversary Hellenic
Heritage Achievement and
National Public Service
Awards Dinner
(L-R) James Lagos, AHI Chairman, Nicholas Chimicles,
a member of Leadership 100, Gala Weekend Chairman,
Caterina Papoulias-Sakellaris, member of the
Leadership 100 Board of Trustees, and Nick Larigakis,
AHI President (Photo: Bill Petros)
The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) hosted its 50th
Anniversary Hellenic Heritage Achievement and Public
Service Awards Dinner, April 13, 2024, Capital Hilton,
Washington, D.C.
congratulate them for their well-deserved honors and
appreciate and laud their contributions to society. In
addition, we congratulate AHI, also a member of
Leadership 100, on its 50 years of extraordinary
advocacy on behalf of our Greek Community, Greece,
and Cyprus, and the Greek Diaspora.”
(L-R) Nicholas Chimicles, member of Leadership 100, Gala Weekend
Chairman; John Sitilides, member of the Leadership 100 Executive
Committee, accepting the award on behalf of Angelo Tsakopoulos,
prominent member of Leadership 100, Nick Larigakis, AHI
President and James Lagos, AHI Chairman (Photo: Bill Petros)
Both Tsakopoulos, formerly a member of the Leadership
100 Board of Trustees, and Papoulias-Sakellaris,
currently a member of the Board of Trustees, are long
The evening’s program honored a distinguished set of
awardees based upon their important career
achievements and contributions to the Greek American
community and community at-large. They were:
• Angelo K. Tsakopoulos, Founder, CEO, and CoChairman of AKT Investment Inc., who received the
AHI Hellenic Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award,
and
• Caterina Papoulias-Sakellaris, retired Business
Executive and Philanthropist, who received the AHI
Hellenic Heritage National Public Service Award.
“We were thrilled to celebrate our 50th anniversary by
honoring two outstanding Greek Americans who have
excelled in their careers and have set extraordinary
examples as community leaders and philanthropists for
us to emulate,” President Nick Larigakis said. “We
Angelo Tsakopoulos, prominent member of Leadership 100,
in video message at AHI’s 50th Anniversary Hellenic Heritage
Achievement and Public Service Awards Dinner
(Photo: Cosmos Philly/Eleftherios Kostans)
time and prominent members of Leadership100.
Demetrios G. Logothetis, Leadership 100 Chairman,
attended the event and commented, “Leadership 100 is
extremely proud of Angelo and Caterina, who have been
exemplary members of Leadership 100 and
extraordinary philanthropists who have advanced our
Faith and Heritage, as well as their communities and
American society.”
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