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The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century
Meet Marina Hadjipateras: Greek shipping heiress, successful venture capitalist, and the woman trying to transform the $14 trillion shipping industry.
Finally, in TMV’s third and latest round, Marina’s first investment made global shipping news: over $1 million in Secro, a US-based company that aims to make managing supply-chain transactions, especially bills of lading, more efficient and equitable. Art openings, Verdi at the Met, jaunts to see colleagues in Singapore, regular dinners at the Pierre in New York, and high tea at Fortnum & Mason in London (where Marina was nearly born, when her mother, Lydia Hadjipateras, had her water break on a drizzly late-October day in 1982). Inevitably we touch on the ballbusters, including Aristotle Onassis, who gave the “O” to Jackie O when she married him after her first husband died; Stavros Niarchos III, who once dated Mary-Kate Olsen; and Konstantinos Boulis, who sold 11 casino ships to corrupt American lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2000 and then was murdered by a hit man with alleged mob connections.
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