About
Robert J. Khoury is the co-founder and CEO of Agile Rainmakers, a high-impact business development consulting and advisory firm based in Chicago’s Gold Coast. His 20+year career in the financial industry has seen him in many roles: an equity derivatives trader, portfolio manager, corporate strategist, chief operating officer, recruiter, hedge fund executive and private equity investor.
Rob earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He takes great pleasure in supporting college students and recent graduates in making career and life choices that support the fulfillment of their life’s goals.
As a member of the Princeton Club of Chicago, for over a decade he has organized intern luncheons for Princeton students eager to find opportunities in Chicago. He has hired interns over the years and has a passion for ensuring their success.
Rob led personal and professional development seminars for Landmark Worldwide for several years; enjoys volunteering, philanthropy and family vacations; and lives with his wife, Mary – a freshwater ecologist – and their two children in a downtown Chicago condo overlooking beautiful Lake Michigan.
Rob is out to bring dignity to the internship discourse. He is writing a 4-book series on internships. How To Intern Successfully: Insights & Actions To Optimize Your Experience and Intern Management: Principles For Designing An Exceptional Internship are the first two in the series.
Featured Work
Intern Management: Principles For Designing An Exceptional Internship
Intern Management outlines nine principles for designing an exceptional internship with dignity. By leveraging these principles all the intentions of an internship are fulfilled with grace and ease. The book invites the reader to embark on an adventure for themselves as they discover how they can positively impact internships at their own unique organization. Each chapter provides key takeaways, questions to reflect on, and principles to ponder.
The book culminates in a final chapter with specific how-to steps shared in detail. Page after page, the reader is challenged to think from the principles as they are called to be the best intern manager they can be. As a result, interns thrive before, during, and after their internship.
