[1] Elie Horn was born to a Jewish family in Aleppo (then under the French Mandate for Syria).
[2] As a teenager, he began working with his brother, Joe Horn, in developing the city of São Paulo, gaining experience in real estate.
In 1962, he founded his own company, Cyrela, and built it into the largest publicly traded developer of high-end residential buildings in Brazil.
The company has existed for 50 years and has over 8,000 clients, 15,000 employees and has developed over 70,000 housing units between 2015 and 2018.
[4] Horn is chairman of Cyrela's board of directors and chief executive officer.