Anis Garabet
Owner
Golden Pacific Jewelry
Anis Garabet, the son of Leon and Margaret Garabet, was born in Beirut, Lebanon before his family moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1972. They moved again to settle in Los Angeles, California in 1979.
Anis earned a Civil Engineering B.S. degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, in 1978 and terminated the graduate program towards the Master's Degree in Seismology from the University of Southern California in 1980. He also earned the Professional Engineering license from the State of California in 1982. He joined the staff of NASA's space shuttle program working for Rockwell International in 1979 and received an award from Columbia's first mission astronauts, John Young and Robert Crippen, for successfully testing the Thermal Protection System for the space shuttle.
In January, 1973, he joined The World Lebanese Cultural Union [WLCU] in New York City.
In 2002, he served for two years as a member of the Board of Directors at The Lebanese American Foundation, House of Lebanon in Los Angeles. In May, 2005 he was elected in Sydney, Australia as the World President of the World Lebanese Cultural Union, the sole Lebanese official representative of the Lebanese Diaspora. He successfully applied for the WLCU to become an NGO at the United Nations. He received numerous awards from WLCU affiliated institutions in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. In November, 2007 he joined the Board of the Lebanese American Renaissance Foundation , LARP, based in Washington, DC.
In 1983, Anis Garabet married Leila Tohme who is originally from Rachaya Elwadi, Lebanon. They have three beautiful children, two daughters, Margaret and Pauline and a son, Jonathan.
Coming from a family of jewelers, Anis founded Golden Pacific Jewelry in 1984 after earning a degree in gemology from the Gemological Institute of America, GIA. He also loves to design jewelry. He speaks five languages, loves to write Lebanese poetry, and he is a pianist who is very much influenced by Feyruz and the Rahbani brothers.