Ziad Abdelnour

Entrepreneur

As Founder and President of the Financial Policy Council, Ziad K. Abdelnour is also President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., http://blackhawkpartners.com/ 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.

Since 1985, Mr. Abdelnour has been involved in over 125 transactions worth in aggregate over 10 billion dollars 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.

Mr. Abdelnour also serves on the board of TMax Capital, an investment management and specialty finance group which focuses on commodities securitization, proprietary structured products based on debt and assets, private equity placements, asset management and other financial ventures and on the Advisory board of DPG Investments, a recognized premier multi strategy global merchant banking, alternative investment, management and advisory firm and FlatWorld Capital, a global private equity investment firm.