Konstantinos Piladakis

He was born in Athens on 17 August 1966 and by the summer of 2004, has been the owner and chairman of AEL 1964 FC.

He achieved a double promotion from Delta Ethniki to Football League, the second national division of Greek football before taking the reins of AEL from 2004 to 2013.

On his days the "Queen of Thessaly" returned in the Greek Superleague in 2005, achieved a European participation in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2006, lifted the 2007 Greek Cup for the second time in the club's history after 22 years and played in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup, reaching the group stage by eliminating English club Blackburn Rovers.

The team also made it to the Play Offs of Greek Superleague in the season 2008–09, taking a ticket for the qualifying phase of the first Europa League.

Except football – his enterprising activities are including also the following : Also, he is the founder of air company VIRGIN ATLANTIC (Greece, 1992 – 2002) and has been directing adviser until 1999, while he was rewarded by the former Secretary-General of United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, at the event of awards Leaders of the Year 2003, as the best new Greek businessman of the year.