ATHENS, Greece – Eight years of being in charge of New York’s bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics have turned Daniel Doctoroff into a human PowerPoint presentation.

His mind is a perfectly organized filing cabinet of the myriad reasons New York deserves the Games, and any question is swiftly met with a multi faceted, carefully numbered response that is persuasive and thorough.

Mr. Doctoroff, president of the NYC2012 committee and one of Mayor Bloomberg’s five deputy mayors, has been in Athens for a week with the mission of convincing the 121 members of the International Olympic Committee to vote for the Big Apple come July.

In the time leading up to Athens’s opening ceremony, Mr. Doctoroff’s days were chockablock with meetings and greetings.

“I’m kind of tired, actually,” he said as he held court in the United States Olympic Committee’s temporary offices in the five-star Divani Caravel hotel, where he received a procession of international journalists for hours. He had more commitments stretching into the evening, but he couldn’t recall what they were.

Mr. Doctoroff is among the VIPs bunking in the heavily protected Hilton, where all members of the IOC also are lodging. He’s met a “significant majority” of them at least once – some as many as five times – and says he has all their faces memorized.

When Mr. Doctoroff bumps into the IOC delegates, does he go the faux-casually schmoozy route and hope the delegate can read behind the lines or does he drop pretenses and flat-out beg for the Olympics?

“It can be tricky,” he said. “We try not to be pushy. Our general approach is to be pretty low-key.”

He’s also participating in the IOC Observer program, where he’s allowed to ask Greek officials questions so he can learn about putting on this massive spectacle. Still, he’s not the type to ask a million annoying questions. “I’m less likely to do that than our team of experts,” he said.

Now that the games have begun, Mr. Doctoroff’s heavy hitting and handshaking will be broken up with watching sports. He says he likes all sports, but is especially attached to track and field, which he watched as a kid growing up in Detroit.

His wife, Alisa, has just joined him; later this week his children, Jacob, 16; Ariel, 13, and Jenna, 12, are to arrive. He’s leaving a few days before the closing ceremony to get back to New York for the Republican National Convention.

Mr. Doctoroff was here last November, and again in February.

“It was chaotic,” he said, launching into a list of the city’s infrastructural improvements. But he also pointed out that there were similar troubles here in 1896 at the first modern Games, when there wasn’t enough funding to complete the stadium and, at the last minute, a wealthy donor came to the rescue.

Mr. Doctoroff, who ran a private equity firm before becoming deputy mayor, has contributed at least $1 million to the NYC2012 fund, according to its Web site. He said NYC2012 has raised more than $40 million in private donations.

“Every major company and every major labor union is behind it,” he said.

It’s little surprise that Mr. Doctoroff has a list of reasons why the games would benefit New York – that can be boiled down to financial, social, and emotional. “Last off,” he says there’s what he calls the catalytic impact. “There’s nothing like a deadline to focus people’s energies and attentions.”

Mr. Doctoroff said the games would bring big things to New York. He pointed to the $5.6 billion plan for the West Side of Manhattan, including an expanded Javits Convention Center and a football stadium for the New York Jets, 20 acres of parks and other open spaces, and an extended subway line.

The proposal has not been officially green-lighted, but Mr. Doctoroff said a draft of the environmental impact statement has already been submitted and things are looking on-track. He conceded that getting the Olympic bid relies heavily on the West Side plan going forward.

“I believe that in order to win we have to have an Olympic Stadium and the only option is the New York Sports and Convention Center,” he wrote in an e-mail to The New York Sun.

The idea to start a bid committee came to Mr. Doctoroff in 1994, when he attended the Italy vs. Bulgaria World Cup soccer match at Giants Stadium. He went with low expectations, but found it to be “the most exciting thing I’d ever seen before. You couldn’t sit down the entire time.”

He decided to look into bringing the Olympics to New York, and spent a little over a year doing his homework, trying to figure out whether it was feasible and whether New York would benefit from such an event. The only person he mentioned this to was his wife.

He decided his “vague idea” was also a good idea. Now NYC2012 has a board of hundreds, a staff of 40, 25 of whom are here in Athens this summer. The mayor’s due here Thursday.

Bookmakers say New York has a slim chance of beating its rival bidders London, Paris, Moscow, or Madrid, but the September 11 attacks may boost the city’s odds.

Back in New York, Mr. Doctoroff says all the members of the state and city government are behind the bid, including Gifford Miller, Hillary Clinton, and Charles Schumer.

While no politicians oppose the Olympics coming to town, some have spoken out against the construction of a football stadium, which would be vital to the Olympic bid. Naysayers include Rep. Jerrold Nadler, state Senator Tom Duane, and City Council member Christine Quinn.

“I accept that they may not want it in and around their community, but it would behoove them to understand the facts,” Mr. Doctoroff said. As for the Olympic bid, he said he is a little surprised the plan’s appeal has crossed party lines. “I had no idea what to expect. I had no experience,” he said. “If I did I probably wouldn’t have done it.”