Demetri Argyropoulos
Founding Investor & Advisor
As Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Demetri Argyropoulos leads the vision and corporate governance for Avant Global. He is highly regarded in the global business community for his proven track record in building successful relationships based on mutual value creation. By establishing commonality and rapport, Demetri creates an atmosphere of trust that enables relationships to flourish.
Since founding Avant Global over two decades ago, Demetri and his partners have been involved in generating more than 20 billion in value across a range of projects and businesses. He has been a catalyst in successfully investing or co-founding over 100 new companies in various sectors.
Demetri is a Founding Investor of The Healing Company, Special Advisor to the CEO of Sandbox AQ, Co-Founder of AXIA, Chairman & Co-Founder of Avant Consumer, Visionary Founder with The Chopra Foundation; General Partner at EQUIAM; Chairman of Stanford Technologies; Co-Founder of Owl Medical (acquired by German multi-national Miltenyi Biotec), and is on the Advisory Board of bSpot, Ripple Labs, TRVLR, Naxos Apothecary, and Trainme.
Demetri is a member of the National Hellenic Society, YPO-WPO, Tiger 21, Leadership 100, and Harvard Business School Alumni Organization. He Co-Chaired the 2018-2019 YPO Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley and served as the Global Envoy for Greece for the YPO Global Diplomacy Network (GDN) & YPO Ambassador to Davos. He was also inducted into the Order of Merit of Savoy, an order of knighthood bestowed by the Royal House of Savoy, the last Kings of Italy.
Demetri was the recipient of the 2010 Gusi Peace Prize for his achievements, ideals, and values. He has been recognized as one of the “Top 40 Business Leaders Under 40” by the Pacific Coast Business Times and named as one of “Greek America’s Forty Under 40” class twice, one in 2014 and 2018. He was also awarded the 2003 National Leadership Award and 2003 Businessman of the Year Award by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Demetri graduated from Westmont College and studied at the American University of Washington D.C. and Georgetown University’s American Government and Foreign Policy Program. He is also a graduate of the Exponential Technologies Executive Program at the Singularity University and Owner/President Management Program at the Harvard Business School.