Kyriakos Y. Tsakopoulos is a member of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, and served on the Columbia College Board of Visitors. He founded the “Aristotle and the Moderns Chair” in Hellenic Studies at Columbia. He is a Trustee Emeritus of the California State University System, Chairman Emeritus of the University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. Research Institute, and a Trustee of the Crocker Museum of Art. He was a California elector in the Electoral College of the United States in 2004 and is an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In 2008, he was selected by the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, to be a member of the Forum of Young Global Leaders.
He has served as President and former CEO of AKT Development Corporation and AKT Investments Inc. (AKT), a diversified, family-owned, land company headquartered in Sacramento, California, operating real estate, farming, ranching, water, minerals, building, and land development projects throughout North/Central California.
Mr. Tsakopoulos holds a Baccalaureate from Columbia University in Political Science, and Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific/McGeorge School of Law (Environmental, Water and Real Estate Law). He is a member of the California and U.S. Supreme Court Bars. He rowed Varsity Eights at Columbia, both as a heavyweight and a lightweight. He resides in Sacramento, California and is an avid sportsman, outdoorsman and airplane pilot.