Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios Haji-Ioannou is a British-Cypriot entrepreneur best known for creating easyJet and developing the broader easy family of consumer brands through easyGroup. He previously founded Stelmar, a shipping company that later listed on the New York Stock Exchange and was sold in 2005. Knighted in 2006 for services to entrepreneurship, he also established the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, which supports charitable causes in countries where he has lived and worked.