Steven Neckman is a lawyer by education but for more than 30 years has been an internationally recognized vintage jewelry dealer. He has been a summer resident on Mykonos for 25 years and a homeowner the last 10 years. An American by birth, Steven is a Greek at heart and a devotee of Mykonos’ island life. He’s passionate about being a part of what will keep Mykonos great. Rather than focus on the shortcomings of our island life, Steven is instead committed to help raise the funds and awareness needed to make the necessary improvements that will enhance everyone’s quality of life on the island.

Alexia Katsaounis has considered Mykonos her summer home since her birth. A graduate of Middlebury College in the USA, and Barcelona’s IESE Business School (MBA), she has combined a career in management at her family’s business with a lifelong dedication to social responsibility. In that role she has served for several years as part of the New York Knicks NBA team’s Community Relations Field, and in the Corporate Social Responsibility Department of Orange, France Telecom in Madrid. Currently she is one of the founding members and president of Desmos ([email protected]), a non-profit foundation that serves as a hub between donors and beneficiary organizations in Greece. Since its founding in 2012, Desmos has distributed over 7 million euros worth of goods and services in Greece. She also serves as a member of the Greek Shipowners Union, in charge of its charitable arm.

Valeria Mazarakis has been a summer resident and homeowner in Mykonos since 2016, committed to giving back and helping preserve the island’s landscape, architecture, and spirit.  Her longstanding passion is youth and education: she spearheaded school-condition improvements in her native Kalamata and supported her sons’ U.S. fundraisers to build a library and girls’ dormitory in Peru’s Machu Picchu region.

An architect and independent scholar, she holds an MS and PhD in History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture from MIT and spent more than 35 years on international projects with architects Rafael Moneo in Spain, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in New York, and Charles Correa in India. In Greece, she is currently designing a museum and a luxury spa hotel and completing a book on contemporary architectural practice.

Sandra Vasiljevic Berset has had a lifelong connection to Greece, spending her childhood summers there and later sailing the Aegean, Ionian, and Cycladic islands with her family. While living in Athens in the early 2000s, she became a homeowner on Mykonos—an island she had grown to love through years of island-hopping and time at sea.

Sandra began her professional career in marketing communications and later retrained as an integrative psychotherapist specializing in neurosomatic therapies. She is also trained in conscious and relational communication, bringing a collaborative and people-centered perspective to her work.

For the past decade, Sandra has spent her summers in her Mykonos home with her husband and two children. Deeply invested in the island’s future, she is committed to supporting initiatives that protect Mykonos’ natural environment and improve quality of life for residents, workers, and visitors alike—through cooperation, awareness, and thoughtful, sustainable action.