Management and Directors

Steve Pappas: President, Treasurer & Director

  • Steve Pappas joined Envirokare with more than 30 years of entrepreneurial, corporate executive, real estate management and development experience, most recently as managing general partner of SPL Associates (SPL) based in Brooklyn, New York. SPL has acquired and manages numerous large-scale residential and commercial real estate holdings in New York. Pappas was the founder and president of Servco Leasing Corp. from 1970 to 1980, during which time it became the largest third-party leasing company for Xerox equipment.

Jonathan Edelstein: Secretary & Director

  • Jonathan Edelstein has over twenty-five years experience in investment banking, finance and mergers and acquisitions, in both senior management and board-level positions. His responsibilities have included the acquisition, restructuring and management of small and mid-sized companies, major takeovers, dispositions, real estate development and financing. Mr. Edelstein is a Senior Advisor to the WestSphere Group, a private equity and fund manager focused in Latin America. Prior to his association with WestSphere, he was in partnership with Merrill Lynch Inter-Funding Inc. 1988 to 1993, where he was involved in the acquisition and merger of a number of companies to create Pacific Outlook, Inc., one of the largest sportswear groups in the United States with gross annual revenues of over $125 million.


Leo G. Kapakos: Director

  • Leo Kapakos brings an extensive banking industry background to Envirokare’s board, including over fifteen years with Westdeutsche Landesbank AG, NY, where he is currently Associate Director in the Credit Department – Financial Institutions Group. During his tenure at Westdeutsche Landesbank, Mr. Kapakos has been responsible for providing various management services, with focus in the areas of transaction risk analysis and credit analysis with respect to a broad range of financial services products.


George Kazantzis: Executive Vice President

  • George Kazantzis joined Envirokare in July 2002 assuming responsibility for corporate development activities with particular emphasis on marketing, corporate structuring, financing and business development. Mr. Kazantzis has over 25 years of executive management and consulting experience in marketing, corporate structuring, finance, mergers and acquisitions. His marketing achievements include the creation and launch of a successful license-merchandising program under the Team Gear USA® brand, in conjunction with Time Warner Sports Merchandising, World Cup USA and US Soccer Federation. Subsequently, Mr. Kazantzis, in a joint venture in conjunction with Merrill Lynch Inter-Funding Inc., facilitated a complex merger and acquisition transaction involving several Southern California clothing companies and brands to create Pacific Outlook, Inc., a major U.S. sportswear manufacturer. At Pacific Outlook he was responsible for product licensing, trademarks and registrations, in addition to handling sales and marketing both domestically and internationally. Previously, he managed several successful corporate restructurings, most recently as a managing director of SLC Leasing Co. Ltd., working with Corporate Performance Advisors Ltd., Thailand, where he oversaw the restructuring of an automotive finance company with 42 offices and 400 employees.

Management Advisory Board

Dr. William L. Mills:

  • Brings to the Company's Management Advisory Board an extensive background in
    senior management and consulting for private and public entities.
  • Dr. Mills is an environmental engineering consultant providing management consulting services to corporate and government clients, in the areas of Industrial Hygiene, Bio- diversity and Ecology, Occupational Health and Safety and Hazardous Waste Management and holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences and Engineering (University of Kansas in 1973).
  • In addition to his many professional accomplishments, from 1983-1989 he served as Member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). As a senior Member of that Council, he served under President Ronald Reagan and briefly under President George Bush Sr. At the CEQ, Dr. Mills managed a staff of eighteen economists and engineers and was responsible for the successful completion of 28
    major National projects.
  • From 1983-1989, Dr. Mills also provided consulting services to 41 companies and 14 foreign governments, supervising over 68 projects with aggregate construction and project costs of $815 million.
  • Prior to 1983, he served as a corporate consultant to approximately 40 Fortune 500 corporations.

George Lois:
  • The legendary George Lois is arguably the most creative, prolific advertising communicator of our time. He is renowned for dozens of marketing miracles that triggered innovative and populist changes in American culture.
  • He introduced and popularized the Xerox culture, made a failing MTV a huge success with his " I want my MTV " campaign, created a new marketing category, gourmet frozen foods, with his name "Lean Cuisine", and (by inventing yet another new marketing phenomenon) persuading America to change their motor oil at JiffyLube stations.
  • Mr. Lois made the totally unknown Tommy Hilfiger immediately famous with just one ad, and saved USA Today from extinction with his breakthrough "singing" TV campaign.
  • In 1994, almost overnight, he changed the perception of ESPN from a "demolition derby" sports channel to the number one sports network with his dynamic "In Your Face" campaign.
  • George Lois is the only person inducted into The Art Directors Hall of Fame, The Copywriters Hall of Fame and The American Institute of Graphic Arts Hall of Fame.
  • He is the author of The Art of Advertising, which has been praised as the "bible of mass communications"; George, Be Careful, an autobiography; What's the Big Idea?, which is used as a textbook in college communications courses all over the world; and Covering the '80s, which displays his iconic Esquire covers during that decade.