[1] He spent his childhood equally in Europe and the Middle East before coming to the United States to get an economics degree from Stanford and an MBA from Yale.

El-Hibri has been chairman of East West Resources Corporation, a venture capital and financial consulting firm, since June 1990.

USA Today interviewed El-Hibri in 2004 for an article about Muslim CEOs of companies helping to fight terrorism, and wrote, "El-Hibri calls the Web sites annoying and jokes that he's lucky to be in the vaccination business so that he can inoculate himself from the pain of accusers who can't be confronted.

A group of 14 Yale alumni - entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors - choose the students who receive the awards, which total $100,000.

[9] El-Hibri served on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, International Biomedical Research Alliance, and National Health Museum.