Fuad El-Hibri
German-American businessman and philanthropist (1958–2022)
Fuad El-Hibri (March 2, 1958 – April 23, 2022) was a German-American businessman and philanthropist, and founder of Emergent BioSolutions.2
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Born Mar 2, 1958, died 2022.1
Companies
- Emergent BioSolutionsFounder9
Early life and education
Early life
Fuad El-Hibri was born in Hildesheim, Germany. He spent his childhood equally in Europe and the Middle East before coming to the United States to get an economics degree from Stanford and an MBA from Yale.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.5
- Date not recordedFounded Emergent BioSolutions4
Early career
El-Hibri worked most of his career in the telecommunications industry. Between graduate school and working for BioPort and Emergent, he worked abroad, in countries including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and El Salvador.
El-Hibri served as president of Digicel from August 2000 to February 2005. He served as the president of East West Resources Corporation from September 1990 to January 2004.
He was a member of the senior management team of Speywood, LTD. in the United Kingdom and organized and directed the management buyout of Porton Products Ltd. El-Hibri reorganized Porton, and was advisor to the senior management team involved in the oversight of operations and served as a senior associate and resident project manager at Booz Allen Hamilton and as a manager of Citicorp in New York City (Mergers and Acquisitions), and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Operations and Credit).
El-Hibri has been chairman of East West Resources Corporation, a venture capital and financial consulting firm, since June 1990. He served as the chairman of Digicel Holdings from August 2000 to October 2006. He served as executive chairman of the board of Emergent BioDefense Operations Lansing Inc.
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Fuad El-Hibri '82 Entrepreneurial Award
One of the Yale University School of Management donor-funded awards, the El-Hibri Award provides first year SOM students with internship program funding over the summer, seed capital for new businesses for second-year men and women and special funding for those going into early-stage start-up ventures. A group of 14 Yale alumni - entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors - choose the students who receive the awards, which total $100,000.
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Personal life
El-Hibri's mother was German, and his father was a Lebanese businessman of maternal Syrian descent. As a child, he lived in Germany and Lebanon. He became a U.S. citizen in 1999. He died on April 23, 2022, at Potomac, Maryland from pancreatic cancer.
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- 1WikidataFuad El-Hibri on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataEmergent BioSolutions, Founder