Ziad K Abdelnour is President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a New York based private equity "family office" that focuses on originating, structuring, advising and acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations, buildups, and growth capital financings in companies and projects based both in the US and emerging markets.

Mr. Ziad Abdelnour also serves on the Advisory board of DPG Investments, a recognized

Experience

• Member of the Board of Governors

  Jan 1995 to Present

  The Middle East Forum is a Philadelphia-based think tank that seeks to define and promote American interests in the Middle East and protect the Constitutional order from Middle Eastern influences. It does this in several ways....

• Founder and President

  Jul 1997 to Present

  USCFL is 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...

• Founder and Co-Publisher

  Jan 1999 to Sep 2004

  The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin is a privately funded think tank whose main mandate consists of gathering intelligence on leaders in business, finance and politics throughout the Middle East and advising US corporate investors on best means...

• Senior Managing Director

  Mar 2001 to Apr 2013

  European American Advisors is a boutique investment and merchant banking firm which specializes in growth sectors with notable expertise in energy and mining production, services and technologies, alternative energy and clean-technologies..

• President & CEO

  Jan 2008 to Present

  Blackhawk Partners LLC is a private "family office" that is in the business of originating, structuring and acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations...

• Founder & Chairman of the Board

  Jul 2010 to Present

  The Financial Policy Council is designed to give its select group of supporters the opportunity to have direct face-to-face dialogue with the nation's quintessential powerbrokers and policymakers along with members of the media at large while....

• Joined APSense.com

  Jul 2013