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LIFE Socratis Kokkalis is the son of Petros Kokkalis , a Professor of Surgery at Athens University and minister for health in the Political Committee Of National Liberation (the breakaway government established by the Communist Party Of Greece ) in Greece during the Greek Civil War of 1945 - 1949 . After the communist defeat in the civil war, he and his family left Greece as refugees, living for a brief time in Romania where he completed his studies, before settling in East Germany , where his father became a university lecturer and personal physician to Walter Ulbricht . Kokkalis was educated in physics and electronics in the universities of Berlin and Moscow and finally settled permanently in Athens in 1965. He established in 1977 Intracom a telecom equipment manufacturer and IT industry. Besides Intracom, he established Intrasoft which was merged with Intracom, Intrasoft International, Intrakat and Intramet which merged to Intrakat, Intralot and a number of other companies. Since 2005 Intracom became a holding company and the various activities where split to Intracom Telecom, Intracom IT Solutions and Intracom Defense. Hellas On Line, the first Greek ISP became a member of the holding company. Intracom Holdings through its companies has more than 3000 employees in Greece and abroad, has sold to more than 70 countries and is one of the largest companies in Greece. In the past he has been accused of of having worked as an informer to the Stasi but the accusation was eventually withdrawn. Article on the Stasi accusations from the BBC Kokkalis's fοrtune is estimated at $1.2 billion and in the 2001 Forbes list, he was listed 421nd. REFERENCES Socratis Kokkalis is at the moment organizing talent camps in Mexico, where the responsible will be former star player of Olympiakos, Fabian Gomez. Fabian has surprisingly appeared as a singer over the last years but with this new offer from Olympiakos would Fabian drop the carreer as a singer and get back to football. Fabian Gomez's return to the Olympiakos family is one of Socratis' targets for this year, and he sees great possibilites in having Fabian Gomez in the squad. Fabian Gomez has a big support from the fanatic fans of Gate7 and for that reason the Olympiakos president, Socratis Kokkalis may give Fabian Gomez the chance to create a new Olympiakos hymn. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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