Alkiviades David is a Greek billionaire heir, a member of the Leventis family, whose holdings include manufacturing, bottling plants, property and shipping.
Background
Alkiviades David was born in May 1968, in Lagos, Nigeria, to a trading and shipping family of Greek Cypriot origin. His father, Andrew A. David (1934-2000), was born in Petra, Cyprus and went on to study business at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Education
David attended high school in Switzerland.
Career
In 2008 he was the majority shareholder of Leventis-David Group, which owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in 28 countries. His companies include the Internet-based television provider FilmOn, the home-shopping website 9021go.com, the streaming-video site BattleCam.com, and the modeling agency Independent Models. He has also appeared in feature films and on television, and is the executive producer and subject of the documentary Lord of the Freaks.
In 1957, Andrew A. David joined the family business, the Leventis-David Group in Ghana, where he managed Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Accra.
In 1998, he co-founded the London modeling agency Independent Models, whose models included Helena Christensen. In 2006, David partnered with veteran film producer Elliott Kastner to launch 111 Pictures Limited., a United Kingdom-based independent production and international sales company.
Also that year, David started FilmOn, an online streaming site. He has appeared in films, including a 2008 motion picture, The Bank Job, in which David played a bank-vault expert hired by Jason Statham to help with a bank heist.
He founded the nonprofit organization BIOS to conserve, protect, and educate people on marine conservation around the Greek islands.
David"s projects include:
FilmOn, a video on-demand website and mobile service which is an extension of his 111Pix distribution venture. BattleCam.com, a peer-to-peer video streaming website and community whose offerings including Fight Night and other pay-per-view tournaments built around mixed martial arts, gaming and comedy. 9021go.com, a home shopping site founded in 2011
David sued Columbia Broadcasting System, dropped the suit, and sued Columbia Broadcasting System Interactive in November 2011, alleging copyright infringement due to the Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications website having editorially covered infringing uses of peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
In June 2013, David filed a countersuit against the four networks seeking a ruling that providing Internet technology for receiving over-the-air broadcast signals at no charge does not violate broadcasters" copyrights.