Ayman Hariri
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16 May 1978
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| Born | Ayman Rafic Hariri 16 May 1978 Saudi Arabia |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
| Occupations | Co-founder & CEO, Vero |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Rafic Hariri Nazik Hariri |
| Relatives | Fahd Hariri (brother) Hind Hariri (sister) Bahaa Hariri (half-brother) Saad Hariri (half-brother) |
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Ayman Rafic Hariri (Arabic: أيمن الحريري; born 16 May 1978)[1] is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, the second-youngest son of tycoon Rafic Hariri. He is the CEO and co-founder of the social network Vero, and the former deputy CEO of Saudi Oger.[2]
Ayman Hariri is the second-youngest son of Rafic Hariri.[3][4] Born in Saudi Arabia, but at the age of two he moved to Lebanon, the birthplace of his father.[5] Ayman moved to Paris at age 12 to attend school.[6]
Following the path of his three half-brothers Bahaa, Saad and Houssam who were all college educated in the US, Hariri moved to the United States to study at Georgetown University and graduated in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in computer science.[3][2][7]
His half-brother Houssam died in a car accident.[5]
Career
While at Georgetown he interned at Intelsat as a programmer.[4] After college, Hariri co-founded Epok with Scott Birnbaum in 2001.[2] Epok was a distributed software platform designed to enable cross-network collaboration mostly designed for enterprises. The company primarily dealt with data privacy.[8][9][10][11]
Following his father's assassination on 14 February 2005 in Beirut,[5] Hariri returned to Saudi Arabia to support his family's business and after some years became deputy CEO and deputy chairman of Saudi Oger, one of the largest construction companies based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While at Saudi Oger, Hariri oversaw some of the biggest projects the company undertook including King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Princess Noura University in Riyadh[12] and the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh and other major public projects.[6]
In 2013, he left Saudi Oger and divested from the company in 2016. After a few years of development, Hariri launched the ad-free social network Vero in 2015.[6][1][13][14][15]
As of February 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.33 billion.[3]