Atlanta Braves Executive Vice President & GM Alex Anthopoulos to speak at GJCP Annual Meeting

PEARL - Atlanta Braves executive vice president and general manager Alex Anthopoulos will be the special guest for the 2020 Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership Annual Meeting, presented by Trustmark. The luncheon is on Wednesday, January 29, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the Jackson Convention Center.

Individual tickets are $65, and tables are available to purchase for $750. Tickets and more information are available HERE.u5:p

Anthopoulos begins his third season with the Braves in 2020 after joining the organization in November 2017. He is the 12th Braves general manager since the franchise moved to Atlanta in 1966. In his first two full seasons as general manager, the Braves have won back-to-back NL East titles. Anthopoulos oversees all aspects of the club's baseball operations. He came to the Braves after spending the 2016 and 2017 seasons as the Los Angeles Dodgers' vice president of baseball operations. Anthopoulos joined the Dodgers in January 2016 following six seasons as the Toronto Blue Jays' general manager, which culminated in an American League East title in 2015 to snap Toronto's 22-year postseason drought.u5:pu5:p

Anthopoulos began his baseball career with the Montreal Expos as a media relations intern in 2000 before transitioning to international scouting and serving as Montreal's coordinator for amateur andu5:p professional scouting for the 2002 and 2003 seasons. The Expos expanded his duties in 2003, adding the title of Scouting Supervisor for Canada. He joined Toronto following the 2003 season as a scouting coordinator and earned a promotion to vice president, baseball operations and assistant general manager on January 8, 2006. On October 3, 2009, he accepted the position of senior vice president,u5:p baseball operations, and general manager. In voting by his peers, Anthopoulos was selected as Sporting News' MLB Executive of the Year at the conclusion of the 2015 campaign.u5:pu5:p

Born May 25, 1977, Anthopoulos is a native of Montreal, Quebec. He is fluent in English and French, and he also speaks some Spanish and Greek. With his Greek descent, he lent his services to the Greeku5:p National baseball team around the 2003 European Championships before helping to assemble the Greek national team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Anthopoulos attended Lower Canada Collegeu5:p and Marianopolis College before majoring in economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He and his wife, Cristina, have a daughter, Julia, and a son, John.u5:p