Thomas G. Abraham is a Lebanese American business entrepreneur and civic leader. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952 and was adopted from the Crèche of St. Vincent at the age of four. He is the adopted son of the late Genevieve and Anthony R. Abraham, a successful entrepreneur, generous philanthropist, and the honorary consul of Lebanon in Miami for over three decades.
Thomas G. Abraham lives in Miami, FL, USA. He attended the University of Miami and the University of Denver in the 1970s before embarking upon his business and philanthropic endeavors.
He currently serves as Chairman of The Beirut Foundation - USA which he founded in 2021, as well as the Chairman of the Anthony R. Abraham Foundation, founded in 1976 by his parents who devoted their lives to helping others. Thomas G. Abraham also serves as president / partner in several family enterprises.
He also serves as a Board Member of these charities: Camillus Health and House Concern, City Year, Emeritus Board Member for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Lebanese American University, Rene Moawad Foundation, Beirut Marathon Association, and American Task Force for Lebanon.
Thomas G. Abraham achieved widespread acclaim for his vision and cultural commitment to contemporary artists in founding Miami's StarArt Foundation, a non-profit charitable trust that matches internationally renowned artists, entertainers, and corporate sponsors with initiatives and projects for the benefit of charities and humanitarian causes. The StarArt Foundation works on tapping into the industries of sports, music, and art, and involving them in a dynamic way, in its mission to make a positive impact.
He is committed to continuing to search out those endeavors that will help empower those in need; one of his most recent projects is the "Help Us Rise" relief initiative managed by The Beirut Foundation and supported by the Anthony R. Abraham Foundation. Help Us Rise aims to aid those who were affected by the third-largest explosion in history which devastated the heart and soul of the city of Beirut on the 4th of August 2020.
Vice-president of the Anthony R. Abraham Foundation, daughter of the founders Anthony and Genevieve Abraham, and sister of Chairman of the foundation Thomas G. Abraham. Charitable work and philanthropy have long been an Abraham family affair. As a founding member of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, her father set a shining example for Norma Jean and the whole family to follow. Over the past 40 years, she has been active with numerous non-profit organizations in her hometown, Miami, as well as with international organizations around the world.
Inspired by the fabulous parties her mother used to throw, Norma Jean began her own party planning business in the late 1980’s. Through “Details, Details, Inc.,” she planned many themed restaurant and nightclub openings on Miami Beach, pioneering the trend of tying in a charitable organization benefiting from these events, and creating the idea of “partying for a cause”. She still loves organizing events and bazaars for charities, as well as raising money on her birthday and Christmas, choosing to have friends and family donate to a charity rather than receiving gifts for herself.
To say that Norma Jean is active in the community would be an understatement. She held post as the president of many organizations including UM’s Cancer Link (which her mother was also a member of), Big Brothers Big Sisters Women’s Committee where she started an annual Christmas party with gift exchange for the Littles. She sat on the Board of Directors of The Plaza Health Network and Zoo Miami, as well as the Learning Leadership Center at St. John Bosco, where you can often find her visiting with the kids in the afterschool program which she helped to initiate. She also served on the Board of Honey Shine Mentoring Program since its inception and chaired their summer camp for many years. She dedicated the past two decades to helping teens and mentoring young girls from impoverished parts of Miami, helping them to succeed and make their goals a reality.
Norma Jean received numerous awards on behalf of the Anthony R. Abraham Foundation over the years. She was named an Honorary Trustee by Miami Light Project, a Woman of Valor by Children’s Home Society, and was specially honored by Alonzo Mourning Charities with the Helping Hands award at Zo’s Summer Groove. She received Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative Award for being a local hero, and The Ethel & W. George Kennedy Family Foundation Volunteerism Award at The American Red Cross of Miami Dade’s Spectrum Awards for all of her continuous hands-on work in the community. She also received Barry University’s Celebration of the Human Spirit Laudare Medal for extraordinary service to the community as a champion for families and children in particular through support of education, was named a Miracle Maker by Big Brothers Big Sisters, was a Women of Distinction and Caring honoree by the Plaza Health Network, and was honored as a part of The Inner Circle of Twelve by the American Cancer Society. She was an Archdiocese of Miami’s Women of Faith award recipient and was honored as Community Partner by Mindful Kids Miami at their Ambassador of Mindfulness Gala.
Through the Anthony R. Abraham Foundation, Norma Jean supports numerous charities in the US, and Miami in particular. Some of these charities are The Mourning Family Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Cancer Link, Children’s Home Society, the Miami City Ballet, Food for Life, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, The Overtown Youth Center, Mother’s Voices, American Cancer Society, and Easter Seals. This is in addition to Children’s Village Boystown, Miami Children’s Museum, Special Olympics, City Year, Humane Society of Greater Miami, Feeding South Florida, Paws 4 You, and Glory House of Miami which focuses on restoring the lives of those exploited by sex trafficking. She also supports the Arts and Education Fund, The Women's Fund, The SEED School of Miami, Cristo Rey School, and St Alban’s Child Enrichment School.
Norma Jean is also a supporter of the Rene Moawad Foundation in her native Lebanon and has ties with Cornerstone Jamaica and The American Friends of Jamaica where she raised much need funds for libraries and schools for the island.
Norma Jean was adopted as a young girl from the Crèche Saint Vincent de Paul in Beirut, Lebanon. “Everyone has a purpose in life,” she says, “I’m blessed to have found mine.” She looks forward to continuing to serve the South Florida community, and those in need around the world, for years to come, with her adopted Schnauzer pup, “Coco” at her side.
Nancy Bailey is Anthony Abraham’s niece. In 1982, she founded Nancy Bailey & Associates Inc., one of the first full-service agencies specializing in the development and management of corporate brand licensing programs for Fortune 100 companies. With over forty years of marketing and licensing experience, Nancy is considered a pioneer in corporate trademark licensing. In recognition of her contributions to the licensing industry, Nancy was inducted into the Licensing Industry Hall of Fame in 2008, the first inductee for trademark licensing.
In 2010, Nancy Bailey & Associates was acquired by Omnicom Grouo (NYSE:OMC) and merged with Beanstalk to form one of the most experienced, successful and innovative licensing agencies in the world.
Nancy’s early career began in the Advertising and Promotions Department at The Procter & Gamble company and at two New York advertising agencies. She held marketing management positions at Royal Castle and Burger King corporation where she worked for seven years as Director of Advertising, Kids Marketing and Licensing.
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Nick Daniels was admitted to the Florida bar in 1968. He is a graduate of the University of Florida (B.S. in Business Administration [1965]; J.D., [1968]). At New York University he earned an LL.M., in Taxation (1971). He is a Board Certified Tax Lawyer.
Mr. Daniels is a member of the notable international legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi. His other memberships include the Estate Planning Council of Greater Miami (1975); the Florida Bar (Member, Tax Section); American Bar Association (Member, Tax Section); and the Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education.
Tom Malouf is from Jackson, Mississippi and is a former co-owner of Abraham Chevrolet in Tampa, Florida. He owns three Beef 'O' Brady's franchises, including the one in Brooksville, and built Horse Lake Plaza, where the restaurant is located. He is an active philanthropist and supports many charities including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Best Buddies, and Camillus House.
Elected to the Abraham Foundation’s board of trustees in August 2020, Anthony T. Abraham is the third generation to be elected to the family foundation. He is the grandson of Anthony R. Abraham, the organization's founder, and son of Thomas Abraham, the current chair of the board of trustees.
With a diverse background encompassing finance, real estate, and technology, he serves as a partner at Abraham Group. He is the author of “Integrative Social Contracts Theory and Negotiation Ethics,” available on Amazon.
Anthony’s community service includes serving as a St. Jude Hero in the London Marathon to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he is a next generation committee member, and cycling 70-miles in the Best Buddies Miami Challenge to raise funds for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He serves as a member of the United Way Young Leaders Society, volunteers with Camillus House and Habitat for Humanity, and supports numerous other civic and philanthropic organizations, including Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, and Penn Libraries Orrery Society, where he sponsored a collection endowment fund in the field of energy infrastructure. He is a graduate of Ransom Everglades School, where he serves as a member of the Young Benefactors Society.
Anthony earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.