Establishment and Aim

Born in Sperchogeia, Messinia in 1856, he was the founder of today’s Alpha Bank. He went into the fabric trade from a very young age, and in 1879 he founded the J.F. Costopoulos commercial house in Kalamata. In 1885 he expanded into banking services, creating a separate banking department in the commercial house. In 1916 he went on to found the J.F. Costopulo Bank, which was renamed into Kalamae Bank two years later. He died in Kalamata in March 1918.

The daughter of Dimitrios Efstathios Stathakos (or Melenikos), she was born in 1870 in Zygovisti, Arcadia. In the late 1880s she married John F. Costopoulos, the founder of Alpha Bank, and they had six children, five sons - Dimitris, Panos, Fotis, Spyros and Stavros - and one daughter, Evangelia-Lina. Among her numerous social activities she chaired the Ladies’ Society of Kalamata from its inception in 1910 to 1923. She died in May 1945 in Athens. In 1989, the Efstahia J. Costopoulos Foundation was established, dedicated to her memory, and aiming at building and operating a nursery school in Kalamata. This donation contistuted the contribution of Alpha Bank, Yannis S. Costopoulos, his sister Anastasia, and the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation to the rebuilding of the city after the earthquakes of 1986.

The fourth son of Alpha Bank founder John F. Costopoulos, he joined the family’s business activities from an early age and served as director of the J.F. Costopoulos Bank (1916-1918) and the Kalamae Bank (1918-1924). He served also as General Manager (1928-1945), Managing Director (1953-1971), President and Honorary President of the Board (1945-1953 and 1968-1984) of Hellenic Commercial Credit Bank, Commercial Credit Bank and Credit Bank, respectively. In December 1979 on the occasion of the centenary of the Credit Bank, as was the name of Alpha Bank then, he founded together with his wife the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation. He died in Athens in 1984.

Daughter of the industrialist Demetrios Mantzounis from Tripolis, Arcadia, she was born in Athens in 1907. She married Spyro J. Costopulo with whom they had two children, Anastasia and John. In addition to being a painter she was active in social and philanthropic work. During World War II she offered her services to the Hellenic Red Cross, helping to organise and run soup kitchens. In the post-war period she worked as a volunteer in the Work Therapy Department of the Asklepieion Hospital in Voula and the Society for the Education of Young Women. In December 1979, Eurydice and her husband founded the John F. Costopoulos Foundation. She died in Athens in May 1980.

He was born in Athens in 1938. He holds a BSc in Naval Architecture from King’s College, University of Durham, England. He joined the Commercial Credit Bank (as Alpha Bank was then called) in 1963. He served as Managing Director and General Manager of the Bank from 1973 and was Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Manager from 1984 to 1996. From 1996 to 2005 he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of Alpha Bank. From February 2005 to May 2014 he served as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank, while in June 2014 the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders conferred upon him the title of Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors. The relationship of Yannis Costopoulos with the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation began in 1979 with its establishment, until 1984 he served as Vice-President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and then took over as President of the Board of Trustees, while from 2019 until his death in 2021 he was Honorary President of the Foundation's Board of Trustees. He was also one of the Founders of the Efstathia J. Costopoulos Foundation.

Born in Athens in 1933, daughter of the banker Spyro J. Costopulo and painter Euridice S. Costopulo, she studied painting with G. Persaki (1965-1969) and at Byam Shaw School of Art in London as well. She has presented her work in personal and group exhibitions. Anastasia Costopoulos was Member of The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation Board of Trustees since its establishment and in 1984 assumed the duties of Vice - President until 2019 when she was proclaimed Honorary Vice – President of the Foundation. Founder of The Efstathia J. Costopoulos Foundation, she was Vice – President of its Board of Trustees since its establishment in 1989 until her death in 2022.