Mr Fouad Makhzoumi has both an undergraduate and Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

In 1984 Mr Makhzoumi founded Future Pipe Industries with other investors and he has been actively involved in the management and development of our business ever since. He became Chief Executive Officer in 1986 until 2003 when his son, Rami Makhzoumi, assumed the role.

Between 1995 and 1997, Mr Makhzoumi served as acting President of the International Desalination Association and he has been a member of the International Board of the Council on Foreign Relations: US/Middle East Project since 1996. From 1995 until 1998, Mr Makhzoumi acted as Vice Chairman of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 1997 Mr Makhzoumi founded the Makhzoumi Foundation, a private Lebanese non-profit organization that contributes through its vocational training, health care and micro-credit programs to Lebanese civil society development.

Mr Makhzoumi has been Executive Chairman of Future Pipe Industries since 2003 and he reassumed the role of Chief Executive Officer in 2011.

Mrs. May Makhzoumi is the President of the Makhzoumi Foundation, which was established in 1997 by Mr Fouad Makhzoumi, out of a strong desire to help empower fellow citizens to achieve self-dependence and improved career prospects. Under Mrs Makhzoumi’s Leadership, Makhzoumi Foundation developed departments, programs and units to address the needs of the Lebanese community and that of its residents. It does that through improving the socioeconomic status by offering loans, developing skills through informal and formal vocational trainings, providing services related to protection of vulnerable women and children while supplying core relief items to the most vulnerable communities, making good value healthcare available, preserving and raising awareness on agro-environmental issues, empowering youth potentials, and orienting them to achieve self-sustainability and independence.

In 1975, May Makhzoumi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and got married the same year to Mr. Fouad Makhzoumi. She started her career as a Pharmacist and worked in Beirut, Lebanon and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

In addition to her role as the President of the Makhzoumi Foundation, May Makhzoumi also holds several administrative positions within Future Group and serves as a Member of the Board of Directors/Advisors of a number of Companies, Universities, NGOs and Associations. She has also participated in many conferences and took part in panel discussions and presentations, and won many awards in recognition of her Philanthropic achievements.