Rabih I. Khoury

Rabih I. Khoury joined MEVP 12 years ago and is the Managing Partner of Melwood Capital, a merchant bank that specializes in structuring private investments in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. Mr. Khoury has extensive experience in private equity and advisory, having executed more than US$5 billion in transactions and raised more than US$2 billion in capital.

Mr. Khoury currently serves on 1) the Board of Directors of Palmboard Technology Holdings, a developer of palm leaves-based engineered wood manufacturing plants in MENA, and 2) the Advisory Board of Kalaam Telecom, a Bahrain-based Integrated Telecom Services provider.

Mr. Khoury is a past member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Structural Engineering Association of Northern California, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the California Office of Emergency Services. He is also the recipient of the Giles Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to the Structural Engineering Association of Northern California, and was a Registered Civil Engineer in the State of California.

Mr. Khoury received his MBA from Columbia University and his MS in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He also received a Bachelor of Engineering with Distinction from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and graduated with Honors from Lebanon’s International College. In addition, Mr. Khoury was the President of the New York Chapter of AUB’s Alumni Association.

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