
Zaya Younan
Chairman and CEO
YOUNAN COMPANY
BORN
JANUARY 7, 1963
HOMETOWN
TEHRAN, IRAN
ETHNICITY
ASSYRIAN-AMERICAN
RESIDES
LOS ANGELES, CA
FAMILY
SHERRY YOUNAN – WIFE OF OVER 30 YEARS. THEY MET AT CHURCH AND MARRIED SIX MONTHS LATER.
THEY HAVE FIVE CHILDREN: DAVID YOUNAN (31), DANIEL YOUNAN (30), WILLIAM YOUNAN (28), ALEXANDRA YOUNAN (26), AND ANDREW YOUNAN (19).
EDUCATION
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.
FIRST JOB
MENTORS
FOUNDED
2002 – PRESENT
EMPLOYEES
2,000+
Early Life and Education
Personal & Family Life
After being introduced by their priest at a local Assyrian Church in Los Angeles, the rest was history. Zaya & Sherry Younan married after dating just six months, and immediately started a family. The two have five children, four boys and one daughter. Younan’s three eldest sons and daughter maintain various roles and positions, working for Younan Company’s private equity firm. His youngest son is currently playing basketball on a D1 scholarship at the University of Portland.
Younan resides with his wife in their 20-acres Los Angeles mansion, with famed neighbors like Britney Spears, Jamie Foxx, Matthew Fogarty, Ellen Degeneres, and more. In their free time, they vacationing at Younan’s various Chateaux-Hotel properties throughout Europe and enjoying their weekends at their various El Septimo Cigar Bar Lounges across the country.
Starting Younan Properties, Inc.
Starting Younan Company Private Equity Firm
Philanthropy
- Rebuilding homes during the Lebanon war of 2006 for the homeless & priests
- Funding the education of Assyrian church members for over a decade in theology courses at the Vatican in Rome
- Funding the building of the 1st Assyrian school in all of Los Angeles, with an entire curriculum based in Assyrian
- Funding the buildings of the Mar Shaleeta & Assyrian Church of the East churches in California
- Being one of the largest standing contributors to the Assyrian Aid Society of America – helping Assyrians in need, facing religious persecution across the world, and promoting Assyrian culture and heritage.
- Funding scholarship programs for Assyrians around the nation to attend Universities and higher education
- Being the single largest donor to all Assyrian churches worldwide