Education
Purdue University; Northwestern University.
Purdue University; Northwestern University.
He served as village president of Barrington Hills from 2005 to 2013, having been defeated in the latter year"s re-election by Martin McLaughlin. Abboud was the Democratic nominee for Illinois"s 16th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives in 2008, losing in the general election to Republican incumbent Donald A. Manzullo. Abboud was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Barrington Hills when he was four.
He is the son of A. Robert Abboud, the former chairman of First Chicago Bank, president of Occidental Petroleum and Harvard University overseer.
After receiving his diploma from Lake Forest Academy, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering from Northwestern University. He is a Christian. Abboud worked for ComEd as a nuclear engineer after a period of research at Argonne National Laboratory.
He served in the United States Navy reserve from 1981 through 1983 and subsequently on various committees for the United States Department of Energy. He served on the California Energy Commission IAW committee.
He is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of RGA Labs, Incorporated., a home based Illinois South-corporation engineering firm.
Abboud holds patents in magnetics and superconducting technologies and has published various articles regarding nuclear reactor design and control.