Emmanuel Olympitis

Emmanuel Olympitis is a British businessman who has held many public company directorships during his career.

At the age of twenty-eight, Emmanuel ‘Manoli’ Olympitis was the youngest (non-family) executive director of a merchant bank in the City of London; at thirty-eight, he was the youngest chief executive of a leading, publicly quoted financial services group; at forty-three, the youngest executive chairman of one of the four largest Lloyd’s international insurance brokers; and at fifty, he was at the forefront of the e-commerce boom as executive chairman of Pacific Media plc.

His executive roles include Bankers Trust International, Aitken Hume International plc, Johnson & Higgins Ltd and Pacific Media plc. Under his guidance, Johnson & Higgins won a Queen’s Award for Exports. Manoli was a Public Schools and County fencing champion, who represented Great Britain internationally.

Emmanuel Olympitis is the author of By Victories Undone as well as Marked Cards