Khudairi was born in Baghdad, Iraq - his family left the country and moved to Houston, Texas just as the Iran-Iraq war was starting in hopes to give him and his siblings a better shot at life. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the The Khudairi Group – a company that supports the United States government with reconstruction efforts in Iraq. “I enjoyed a very American, suburban upbringing. I was on the football team in high school and eventually attended the University of Texas in Austin where I was the first president of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.”