ART

 

 

.

William Peter Tavoulareas", (born November 9, 1919 - died January 13, 1996), President of Mobil Corporation, 1969-1984. He was appointed to the position by retiring Mobil Chairman, Albert Nickerson.


Biography

Tavoulareas was the recipient the AHEPA Award, the prestigious awards to recognize members of the community for their contributions and achievements in their chosen field of endeavor.

He was also: on the Boards of Aramco, Bankers Trust, Philip Morris, St. John's University, Georgetown University, Athens College, St. Francis Hospital, a Governor of New York Hospital, a Knight of Malta and served on the Boards of numerous charities both nationally and internationally.

The son of a Greek immigrant butcher and an Italian mother...Brooklyn born "Tav" as he was known, was the architect of Mobil's Middle East expansion. Fast spoken with a pronounced New York accent, he was a unique success in a field dominated by Texas born engineers and "Blue blood" Ivy League graduates.

A 1983 Business Week cover had Tavoulareas up to his waist in a map of Saudi Arabia. He was famously asked by Saudi Oil Minister Zaki Yamami "if he was sinking into the sand or rising from it; the King wants to know"

In the Seven Sisters written by Anthony Sampson, Tavoulareas was acknowledged by his peers as being the most capable oil man of his generation.

In 1982 Tavoulareas won a $2 million libel suit against the Washington Post for saying he used his corporate position to "set up his son" in a shipping business. The jury's award was put aside by the judge hearing the case because he said Tavoulareas had not proven "actual malice". Although he did question some of the Post's reporting. On appeal the jury's decision was reinstated but in 1987 a further appeal to the state Supreme Court reversed that decision with a 7-1 verdict in favour of The Post. The 1987 decision found that the Washington Post's strong tradition of investigative journalism - its "adversarial stance" was not evidence of "actual malice" and that the story about Tavoulareas was largely true: "The record abounds with uncontradicted evidence of nepotism in favor of Peter," the judges said. [1]

He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, Greenvale NY
References

^ "An Important Victory," Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1987, http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-19/local/me-13750_1_important-victory

Greeks:

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M -
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Ancient Greece

Science, Technology , Medicine , Warfare, , Biographies , Life , Cities/Places/Maps , Arts , Literature , Philosophy ,Olympics, Mythology , History , Images

Medieval Greece / Byzantine Empire

Science, Technology, Arts, , Warfare , Literature, Biographies, Icons, History

Modern Greece

Cities, Islands, Regions, Fauna/Flora ,Biographies , History , Warfare, Science/Technology, Literature, Music , Arts , Film/Actors , Sport , Fashion

---

Cyprus

Greek-Library - Scientific Library

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Greeks

Greece

World

Index

Hellenica World