McDaniel College Elects Alex Koundourakis to Board of Trustees

Alex Koundourakis of Manhasset, N.Y., is a 1993 Alumnus of McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College

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WESTMINSTER, MD (11/08/2012)(readMedia)-- McDaniel College has named Alex Koundourakis of Manhasset, N.Y., to its board of trustees.

Alex Koundourakis is a partner and head trader at Gracie where he works with Gracie's flagship funds, the Gracie Credit Opportunities. He was previously a managing director, founding member and execution trader at Calyon/CLCM, vice president for integrated credit sales at Merrill Lynch and senior broker and global head of the credit derivative business at Cantor Fitzgerald.

He received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1993 from McDaniel (formerly Western Maryland) College.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit http://www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research,teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.