Most people think growth is about ambition. Ryan Kfoury knows it is about infrastructure.
While many founders chase visibility, Ryan has spent the last few years doing something far less glamorous and far more powerful: rebuilding the machinery behind how companies hire, employ, and scale people across borders.
Business Lobby was founded over two decades ago by Tina Bardan Kfoury, who built it into one of the region’s most trusted recruitment firms. Long before remote work became mainstream, she introduced structured hiring models and later expanded the business into payroll and Employer of Record solutions, enabling companies to employ talent without setting up local entities.
When Ryan stepped into the business, he didn’t inherit momentum, he inherited expectations.
“Being second generation doesn’t mean you get a head start,” Ryan says. “It means you start with a standard you’re expected to exceed.”
A Founder Mentality Forged Outside the Family Business
Ryan’s instinct to build didn’t start at Business Lobby. While still in university, he launched an e-commerce fashion brand, managing everything from sourcing to marketing and operations. This venture later led to a partnership in Dubai with the former Vice President of Tiffany & Co., where Ryan was exposed to global execution standards, scale, and precision.
“That experience rewired how I think about business,” he says. “Speed matters. But structure matters more.”
Turning Recruitment Into Cross-Border Infrastructure
When Ryan formally joined Business Lobby, the firm already had a strong international recruitment footprint. What stood out, however, was a deeper structural gap in the global hiring ecosystem. Companies weren’t struggling to access talent across borders, they were struggling to employ it compliantly, efficiently, and at scale.
Under his and Tina’s leadership, Business Lobby moved beyond recruitment alone, expanding into outsourcing and payroll solutions and transforming into a multinational workforce infrastructure platform operating across multiple jurisdictions.
The transformation was not cosmetic. Operations expanded across more than ten countries, multinational partnerships became a core growth engine, and the firm began supporting hundreds of professionals through cross-border employment structures. Revenue scaled as services diversified beyond recruitment, positioning Business Lobby as an enabler of expansion rather than just a transactional service provider.
Scaling Without Losing the Human Element
At the heart of this evolution is an AI-backed talent infrastructure built on a database of more than 750,000 professional profiles. Yet Business Lobby is intentional about how technology is applied.
Ryan believes that automation should accelerate judgment, not replace it. While AI improves speed, precision, and matching, every hiring decision remains human-led, preserving trust, cultural alignment, and long-term retention.
“Automation without judgment is dangerous,” he says. “Our systems accelerate decisions, they don’t replace them.”
The result is a model that dramatically reduces time-to-hire while keeping all hiring decisions human-led, a balance that has become a differentiator in complex and emerging markets.
Building Influence Beyond Business
Ryan invests in long-term leverage by mentoring university students on global career readiness and supporting international talent mobility. As an alumnus, member, and mentor of Lebanese International Finance Executives (LIFE), he leverages a global network to empower high-potential youth and foster ecosystems where talent and opportunity thrive.
For Ryan, success is not only measured by company growth but by the ecosystems created around it.
“It is easy to build a company,” Ryan says. “It is much harder to build something that outlives you.”
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