Panos K. Kiayias

Executive Chairman

Executive Offices

New York

Mr. Kiayias is the Executive Chairman of Newport Private Group, a privately held international conglomerate that is currently active across five continents. The family traces its roots back to the Byzantine times with its first expansion into Western Europe in the 1800s with holdings in luxury hotels. Today, the Group’s operations and investments focus primarily on eight business areas: real estate, healthcare and life sciences, hotels and hospitality, transportation and logistics, aerospace and aviation, financial services, energy, as well as private equity and venture capital.

Mr. Kiayias has over thirty years of experience in the financial industry with more than $120 billion of completed transactions. He has worked in New York in investment banking and principal investing for firms such as Goldman Sachs and The Blackstone Group as well as in the EMEA and Asia regions, where he worked with numerous public and private companies in various sectors, advising corporations in their mergers and acquisitions, divestitures as well as other strategic transactions.

Prior to working in the financial services industry, Mr. Kiayias served in the military as an Officer in the Special Forces. He received an AB in Economics and Finance from Cornell University where he was an undergraduate Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the Stelios Haji-ioannou Scholarship graduating with Summa Cum Laude. Mr. Kiayias also holds an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Kiayias sits on the boards of a number of companies both within the Newport Private Group structure and outside. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association and a supporter of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is also a member and supporter of the Asia Society. Mr. Kiayias has been a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School in New York City and has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.