Elie Khouri

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elie Khouri
Occupation	Media Proprietor
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1964(1964-05-08)
Age	60
Birthplace	Beirut
Horoscope	Gemini

Elie Khouri Biography

Elie Khouri is one of the most popular and richest Media Proprietor who was born on May 8, 1964 in Beirut, ****. Born on May 8, 1964, Khouri lived on the east side of Beirut, where his father worked as a chef. The Lebanese Civil War broke out when he was 11-years-old, but he stayed in Beirut because his family did not have the money to relocate. From a young age, Khouri sold firecrackers, canned food, drinks, and clothing to make pocket money. During the raids, there was a food shortage, so he started to sell tuna and beef in his neighborhood. With the proceeds, he bought clothes, which he later sold at a profit.

He worked within the advertising industry at Omnicom Group’s agency BBDO after he received his MBA in 1988. In 2002, he went from the creative to the media side of Omnicom Group to launch OMD, a media communications group. It develops marketing campaigns using digital, mobile, and television advertising and, more recently, employing performance marketing. Omnicom has been ranked one of the best places to work in the United Arab Emirates for several years.

Khouri returned to Dubai in 2001 and later established OMD (Optimum Media Direction), by unbundling Omnicom’s media departments within its full-service agencies. The company develops advertising campaigns for its clients. Arabian Business states that “Khouri ditched a glamorous job in the advertising industry to set up the media agency OMD.” This occurred when media was a minor consideration in communication planning. With the wider use of technology, media became an important element in planning advertising campaigns.

Starcom was the leading media agency in the Middle East until 2005, when OMD took the lead. The global roll-out of Omnicom Media Group’s other media brand, PHD, by early 2006, saw the addition of an office in Dubai to the existing ones in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The Omnicom Media Group MENA (Middle East and North Africa), a regional holding company, was established. It reports to the Omnicom Media Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which is based in London. In 2006, Khouri moved from his regional managing director role at OMD to assume the leadership of the Omnicom Media Group MENA.

He attended the American University of Beirut (AUB), where he received a BBA in 1986 and an MBA in business and finance in 1988. On his way to classes at AUB, he was often in danger due to snipers in the area and he once escaped a kidnapping attempt. While attending the university, Khouri worked at a financial trading company, which dealt with trading currencies, securities and bonds.

Elie Khouri Net Worth

Elie Khouri is one of the richest Media Proprietor from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elie Khouri 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Elie Khouri (born May 8, 1964) is a Lebanese-French marketing and communications executive in Dubai. He is the Chairman of Omnicom Media Group MENA, the media services division of the Omnicom Group.

After graduation, Khouri went to Cyprus to work for Lance de Masi at BBDO, an advertising agency that is part of the Omnicom Group. He pursued this job because he found it more interesting than finance, and the move would take him away from the civil war. Also, the banking industry had become unstable due to the global financial crisis of the late 1980s. He travelled frequently for TV commercial shoots to New York, Los Angeles and London for clients like Yves Saint Laurent and Pepsi.

In 1992, Khouri moved to Dubai, where he worked at Impact BBDO in a senior role. He returned to Beirut in 1996 and for the next four years served as the associate managing partner of Impact BBDO.

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The company had eight offices in six countries; and employed 450 people by

2012. By the following year, it had launched Resolution, which specializes in social and mobile advertising and programmatic buying, which are forms of performance marketing. It uses OMD Predicts and PHD BrainScape to share intellectual property. Omnicom grew more than 30% in 2013 to $2.5 billion.

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Elie Ranked on the list of most popular Media Proprietor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in. Elie Khouri celebrates birthday on May 8 of every year.

Khouri is an art patron and collector. His international collection includes contemporary paintings, sculptures and design objects. Some of the works from his collection are displayed at Omnicom Media Group MENA headquarters in Dubai. He supports the Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL), a non-profit organisation dedicated to showcasing and encouraging Lebanese artists. Khouri is a member of the Tate Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee and the MoMA Director’s Council, as well as an Art Dubai patron. In 2016, he started working towards establishing a private art foundation, to support emerging artists and the art ecosystem in the region and globally.