George D. Gigicos of the St. Mark Church in Boca Raton, FL, was invested as Archon in 2015 and conferred with the offikion Hartophylax.

George is the President of the Gigicos Group, LLC and the Co-Founder of Dynamis Strategic Advisors, LLC where he leads the political consulting, public affairs and event management practices of the firm. He is widely regarded as one of the best advance and logistics experts in the world today and has a reputation of working with quiet competence.

Prior to co-founding Dynamis, Gigicos served as the Director of Advance and Operations for the historic 2016 Donald J. Trump for President Campaign. As one of President Trump’s first and longest serving aides, he is a member of the renowned Original staff members. Gigicos successfully produced every single one of Trump’s signature rallies and events from day one of the campaign and coordinated logistics for a nationwide movement that began at 1% in the polls and ended with the election of an American President. After playing a significant role in winning the election, he went on to serve on the Presidential Transition Team. On Inauguration Day 2017, he became a Commissioned Officer of the White House serving as Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of the White House Office of Presidential Advance for the first seven months of the Administration. A veteran of every U.S. presidential campaign since 1988, Gigicos has 30 years of experience in working and traveling the globe with candidates, U.S. Presidents and Cabinet Secretaries.

Early in his career, he served as a political appointee in the administration of President George H.W. Bush at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Office of Travel & Special Events. In the George W. Bush administration, he served as a Lead Advance Representative for the President and also traveled with former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson on his many trips abroad during the worldwide financial crisis of 2007-2008. In 2014, he worked on the winning campaign of President Juan Carlos Varela of Panama and went on to assist in the coordination of the Panamanian Presidential Inauguration. At the request of President Varela, he returned to Panama and produced the Summit of the Americas which brought together 35 heads of state from all over the world. Gigicos served as the Lead Advance Representative and coordinated logistics and messaging for the historic Apostolic Pilgrimage of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Jerusalem. He has also worked on countless other high-profile events and summits around the world including the first three US-China Strategic Economic Dialogues in Beijing and Washington.

As an expert in media relations and crisis communications, Gigicos served as a media consultant and spokesman for BP during the Deep-Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In that capacity, he spent over a year on the Gulf Coast developing media strategies, messaging and coordinating press events for what was one of the greatest disasters and crisis communications events ever.

Gigicos is an active member of the Order or St. Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He sits on the board of Classic Ballet of Mobile and is a member of the Ship Sponsors Advisory Board for the new Ford Class Aircraft Carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) of which he is an Honorary Plankowner.

Gigicos is a proud native of Mobile, Alabama where he was appointed by the Mayor as an Ambassador of the City in 2016 and is currently a member of the Mobile Covid-19 Task Force. He graduated from the UMS-Wright Preparatory School and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration / Marketing from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama.