Who was the enigmatic professor Stratis Andreadis after all? The man who was loved by generations of students and served repeatedly as the rector at ASOEE, leaving an indelible mark on Greek shipping and the Greek and global shipping industry. The man who founded the Elefsina Shipyards, the Phosphoric Fertilizers Industry, the man who built the legendary Hilton, managed the ISAP, acquired the Ionian and Laiki Bank, the Piraeus Bank, the Attica Bank, the man who founded the first investment bank in Greece and built the colossus of the Commercial Bank Group - only to lose control of it overnight due to the animosity of Konstantinos Karamanlis, who suddenly nationalized it, a seizure for which the Greek state was later condemned by the European Court of Human Rights. Partial answers to these questions can be found scattered in the Greek press.