Early Life and Education
Born in 1944, Mack was the sixth son to Lebanese immigrants of Greek Orthodox and Melchite origin, whose original family name was Makhoul. His father, Charles, came to America at the age of 12, following his father who had arrived at Ellis Island in 1908 and had settled in North Carolina. Charles ran a wholesale grocery store in Mooresville, N.C.
Mack graduated from Duke University in 1968, where he attended on a football scholarship and is now a member of the Board of Trustees.
Mack's first job in finance was as a clerk at a small brokerage house during his junior year at Duke, after a cracked vertebra made it impossible for him to continue on his football scholarship.
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