Mark Khoury
MBA Student, Chicago Booth 2025 | Co-Founding Member of Fresha
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Strategy & GTM Intern
2024 - 2024
Orda provides vertically integrated software for restaurants and hospitality across Sub-Saharan Africa. I spent the summer between the Lagos and Nairobi offices of Orda assisting with commercial process development, financial operations automation, and developing an initial business intelligence and warehousing architecture. The internship also allowed me to experiment with live use cases of the OpenAI API for automating workflows, classifying unstructured data, and generating content.
1st Place Regional Winner
2024 - 2024
Led a student group to #1 placement in the regional finals of the venture capital investment industry.
VCIC is a pioneering platform that allows its students to learn on private equity, the accelerator for the fundraising process.
Chief Analytics Officer & Co-Founding Team Member
2021 - 2023
Employee #10 and the company's first-ever data hire. Led team of 12 analysts and engineers for commercial, marketing, and product analytics. Named a "Co-Founding Team Member" in 2013.
Director of Operations
2019 - 2021
Led commercial and legal due diligence efforts for Fresha's $152M Series C round. Helped lead compliance efforts with PSD2 regulations to enable Fresha to launch payments in 40 countries, which would later contribute $2B+ in annualized payment volume.
Global Operations Manager
2018 - 2019
Built initial data team and set up offices in Australia and United Kingdom (company headquarters).
Business Intelligence Analyst
2017 - 2018
Automated ad hoc Excel reports into live dashboards, many of which are still in use to this day.
Associate
2015 - 2017
MEVP is the largest independent venture capital firm in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), with four funds and over $120M assets under management. Specialty working with highly scalable consumer internet ventures, such as marketplace, media, and FinTech ventures, as well as cloud / SaaS companies. Assisted in fundraising efforts for MEVP's largest fund, Middle East Venture Fund III of target size $250M
Partner
2014 - 2015
Founding member of Campus Founders Fund, a $500K microventure fund conceptualized by Kickstart Seed Fund run entirely by students, for students.
Senior Associate
2014 - 2015
Internship in family office focusing on impact investment across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. Role mostly included due diligence on sourced investments, including founder conversations, financial analysis, and due diligence. Key highlights included working closely with Village Capital on its impact accelerator cohorts (FinTech, agriculture) and with the sister fund (University Venture Fund / University Growth Fund) on growth-stage investments in exciting tech companies including Spotify, SnapChat, and Lyft.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2023 - 2025
HBS
2011 - 2015