Ziad K. Abdelnour is a Wall Street dealmaker, trader and financier with 20+ years experience in merchant banking, private equity, alternative investments and physical commodities trading along with an access second to none to prominent institutions and UHNW in North America, Europe & the Middle East. 

Throughout his career on Wall Street, Mr. Abdelnour worked on more than 125 transactions representing approximately $30 billion in value and ranging in size from $5 million – $5 billion while raising in the process in excess of $3.5 billion in privately placed debt and equity financing for more than 100 companies involved in leveraged buyout, acquisition financing, and growth financing and corporate restructuring worldwide.

Mr. Abdelnour is currently President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc.; a New York based venture capital ”family office” that focuses on originating, structuring and acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings mainly in the global energy and technology sectors.

In addition to his professional work, Mr. Abdelnour has been a business angel investor in a number of ventures; mainly in the areas of asset management services including funds management throughout the asset class sectors, “clean fuel" and other alternative energy technologies and projects, global broadband telecom and networking infrastructure, global security and intelligence services including software applications and materials sciences and last but not least healthcare delivery and processing services including ambulatory surgical centers, data and billing management and claims processing. He is a regular panelist and speaker on private equity and venture capital topics at industry conferences nationwide. 

Regarding his interests in the Middle East, Mr. Abdelnour is a Founding member and President of the US Committee for a Free Lebanon, Inc www.freelebanon.org a coalition of Americans of all faiths, established for the purpose of educating the public as to Lebanon's strategic and moral significance as an ally of the United States and an outpost of Western values in the Middle East and Founder and co-Publisher of the widely sought after Middle East Intelligence Bulletin www.meib.org

He is also co-author of the book "Ending Syria's occupation of Lebanon: The US Role", http://www.meforum.org/research/lsg.php former President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America http://www.arabbankers.org/my/shared/home.jsp and sits on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of 15 privately-held companies in the U.S and abroad. 

Mr. Abdelnour enjoys an American and Lebanese dual citizenship and holds an M.B.A in financial engineering from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the American University of Beirut.

He is the son of Lebanese industrialist and former MP Khalil Abdelnour (1992-2000) and the nephew of former Lebanese financier and MP Salem Abdelnour (1960-1964 and 1972-1992).

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