Greek Trek: Investing in tomorrow’s philhellenes

"My parents moved to Greece from a village in Northern Epirus (southern Albania) in the 1990s, with the dream of returning to their homeland and having fought to keep their Greek identity alive in Albania," says Anastasia Thano, who was born in Athens. "However, in 2009, just before the debt crisis broke out, they decided to emigrate again, hoping for a better future for their children. So we left for the United States."

Dimitris Papachristou's roots go back to Kyriaki, a village in the regional unit of Viotia in Central Greece, on his father's side, and to the southern island of Crete on his mother's side. For professional reasons, the family spent many years in various countries in Europe. Konstantinos Angelakis' grandparents came from Thessaloniki and Messinia. He himself is a second-generation Greek American.

The three met at the Fletcher School of Law and...