Khalid bin Mahfouz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Khalid bin Mahfouz

Saudi businessman

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1949

Place of Birth: Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia

Date of Death: 16-Aug-2009

Profession: entrepreneur, investor, banker

Nationality: Saudi Arabia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Khalid bin Mahfouz (December 26, 1949 – August 16, 2009) (Arabic: ???? ?? ??????) was a Saudi Arabian billionaire, banker, businessman, investor and former chairman of the National Commercial Bank (NCB).
Khalid is the son of Salem Bin Mahfouz, a Saudi entrepreneur who rose from being a smalltime moneychanger to becoming the founder of the NCB, the first private Saudi bank. With a personal wealth estimated to be around $3.2 billion, Bin Mahfouz ranked 24th in Arabian Business magazine's list of the world's most influential Arabs in 2008.
In the same year, Bin Mahfouz ranked number 214 in Forbes Billionaires ListAfter the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, considerable suspicion fell on Saudi financiers and charities as sources of financing for terrorism and Khalid Bin Mahfouz faced accusations in books, newspapers and magazines that he and his family had funneled money to Al Qaeda.