Dara Khosrowshahi

Dara Khosrowshahi (, ; born May 28, 1969) is an Iranian-American business executive who currently serves as the chief executive officer of Uber. Khosrowshahi was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators. He also serves on the board of directors of BET.com and Hotels.com, and previously served on the board of The New York Times Company. Early life and education Khosrowshahi was born in 1969 in Iran into a prominent Muslim wealthy family and grew up in a mansion on his family's compound. He is the youngest of the three children born to Lili and Asghar (Gary) Khosrowshahi. His family founded the Alborz Investment Company, a diversified conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food, distribution, packaging, trading, and services. In 1978, just before the Iranian Revolution, his family was targeted for its wealth and his mother decided to leave everything behind and flee the country. Their company was later nationalized. His family first fled to southern France. They were planning to come back to Iran if the revolution failed, but when that didn't happen, they immigrated to the United States, eventually moving in with one of his uncles in Tarrytown, New York. Khosrowshahi's mother had very little money to support her children, and having never worked before in Iran, started to work full time in the US to pay towards her sons education. In 1982, when Khosrowshahi was 13 years old, his father went to Iran to care for his grandfather. His father was not allowed to leave Iran for 6 years and thus Khosrowshahi spent his teenage years without seeing his father. In 1987, he graduated from the Hackley School, a private university-preparatory school in Tarrytown. In 1991, he graduated with a B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Brown University, where he was a member of the social fraternity Sigma Chi.