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Ziad Abdelnour

MBA - The Wharton School of Finance -

President & CEO

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10022 New York
United States

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Personal information

Professional experience (8 years, 5 months)

Jan 2004 - present
(8 years, 5 months)

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Employment status

Executive

Educational background

Jan 1983 - Aug 1984

The Wharton School
Financial engineering, MBA

Languages

English, French, Arabic

About me

SHORT BIO:

Once referred to by the New York Times as one of the 100 most creative and fiercest investment bankers on Wall Street, Ziad K. Abdelnour is a dealmaker, trader and financier with over 20 year experience in merchant banking, private equity, alternative investments and physical commodities trading. Since 1985, Mr. Abdelnour has been involved in over 125 transactions totaling over $30 billion in the investment banking, high yield bond and distressed debt markets and has been widely recognized for playing an integral role in those three key market sectors.

Before founding Blackhawk Partners, Inc. in 2004; a New York based private equity ”family office” that focuses on originating, structuring and acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations, buildups, and growth capital financings, Mr. Abdelnour held numerous senior positions at European American Advisors; Inc.; THCG Inc .(formerly Hambro America Securities); Ladenburg Thalmann and Drexel Burnham Lambert’s High Yield Bond Department where his responsibilities included investing, financing and restructuring over 100 companies spanning the industrial, logistics, consumer and manufacturing industries both in the US as well as in emerging markets.

Since 2001, Mr. Abdelnour has been a trusted advisor to a number of the largest family offices in the United States, Europe and the Middle East and a turnaround investor in a number of companies where Mr. Abdelnour’s corporate capital commitment through Blackhawk came either through acquiring those and other companies through their distressed debt or through the chapter 11 process.

Mr. Abdelnour has extensive connections with the Washington political, government and intelligence establishments having served since 1994 as a friend and advisor to a number of agencies and organizations associated with such entities in various capacities; especially when dealing with fiscal and foreign policy matters.

On a more personal level, Mr. Abdelnour is Founder and President of the US Committee for a Free Lebanon, Former President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America, Member of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Forum and Founding Member of the Financial Policy Forum ; a lobbying organization whose prime mandate is to lobby members of Congress on ways and means of bridging the gap between Washington DC and Wall Street.

Mr. Abdelnour enjoys an American and Lebanese dual citizenship and holds a 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, is a regular panelist and speaker on private equity and venture capital topics at industry conferences nationwide and is personally a business angel investor in over a dozen ventures; both in the US and abroad.

PHILOSOPHY:

Personal motto:

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its outcome, than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things. Thus in my dictionary, an idea that is not 'dangerous' is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Business motto:

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money cannot buy.

Motto on making money:

It is the simplest thing to do if you have the knack of it. You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value, where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what 'exact' combinations....and you've got it made....big time.

Motto on love:

You asked me whose life was more important- yours or mine and I answered "mine" ; you walked away angry not knowing that you are my life.

Motto on success:

I believe you have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity.

Motto on life:

You will only get to the top, and stay there, by lifting those around you as you move up - not by climbing on them to get there first.

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