Mr. Joseph Georges Audi
Mr. Joseph Georges Audi is the chairman of Interaudi Bank. He has served as president and CEO since the bank’s inception in 1983. In 1971, Mr. Audi began working for Banque Audi SAL, a leading Lebanese bank and part of a long line of Audi family banking enterprises dating back to the nineteenth century. He later moved to Paris to establish Banque Audi France and became its first president before moving to New York in 1982 to establish Bank Audi USA.
Interaudi Bank, previously Bank Audi USA, is an FDIC insured full-service bank chartered by the state of New York with approximate assets of two billion dollars. Under Mr. Audi’s leadership, the bank has been profitable every year since its founding in 1983.
Mr. Audi has served as a trustee of the French American School of New York and as a member of the Dean’s Council of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a board member of Action Against Hunger, an NGO dedicated to ending undernutrition around the world. In recent years, Mr. Audi has graciously provided scholarships for LAU students to spend a semester studying in New York City. Mr. Audi, a proud US citizen, was born in Lebanon. He holds a graduate business degree from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, France, and attended law school at Paris Assas University. He and his wife Claude Audi have been married since 1975. They are the proud parents of four sons and five grandchildren.