Edmond moutran biography for kids

Memac Ogilvy’s Chairman and CEO, Edmond Moutran is the driving force behind an ever expanding group of companies that dominates the marketing landscape throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Eddie, as he is fondly called by one and all, runs what could easily qualify being called an ‘empire’ of marketing companies with many firsts to his credit.

After World War I, his parents had migrated from Turkey to Lebanon, where he was born and educated and although he is now in the coveted position to choose where he would like to nest, it is Beirut that he still calls home.

A chance meeting with some American missionaries opened the doors for Edmond to go to America, to study accounting.

In the mid-1960s, when the concept of marketing was just beginning to flourish, young Eddie discovered his passion for the subject and so switched from accounting to marketing. After graduating in 1972, he chose to return to Lebanon where he started working for I