Patrick Drahi (French pronunciation: [patʁik dʁai]; Arabic: باتريك دراحي; Hebrew: פטריק דרהי; born 20 August 1963)[2] is a French-Israeli billionaire magnate and investor with interests in media and telecoms.

[4][6][7] After completing his postgraduate degree in 1986, Drahi began work as a fibre optics researcher at Philips.

[8] In France, he founded the French cable operator Numericable and in 2013 bought SFR, the second largest mobile phone and internet provider in the country, from media conglomerate Vivendi.

[14] Altice entered the American telecommunications market in 2015 by purchasing 70% of Suddenlink Communications, the seventh-largest cable company in the US.

[23] Drahi married Lina Nazirah (née Zenie), a Greek Orthodox Syrian naturalized in Switzerland, in 1990.

[27] They have four children: Graziella, who is Vice President–Growth at Altice USA,[28] Angélina, who chairs the family's charity foundation,[29] and twin sons[27] David, who joined the board of directors of Altice USA in 2019,[30] and Nathan, who formerly worked in London in private equity and was appointed Managing Director of Sotheby's Asia in 2021.

[31] In 2014, Drahi and his wife Lina created their family foundation, the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation, to support innovative programs in the areas of science and education, entrepreneurship and innovation, the arts, and Israel and the Jewish people, through organizational grants.