Ten years ago, Peter Economides, a marketing strategist who helped re-launch a dying Apple computer company into the world’s second-largest business, left New York, came to visit Greece, stayed at a hotel on Athens’ southern coast, saw the sun set on the nearby island of Aegina, and came home. Although a South African, he said he’d found a place in a country he now hopes to help resurrect from an economic crisis that has made the once-glorious nation the butt of jokes and scorn, Greeks whose ancestors created democracy branded as lazy, corrupt tax cheats threatening to bring down the Eurozone of the 17 countries who use the euro as a currency.
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