Ziad K. Abdelnour
<b>Ziad K. Abdelnour</b> is CEO, founder, and president of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a private “ family office” in the business of originating, structuring, and acting as an equity investor in strategic corporate investments. He is co-founder of Aeros-Blackhawk Partners and founder/chairman of the board of the Financial Policy Council. With thirty-plus years of experience on Wall Street, Ziad has backed more than 125 companies and serial entrepreneurs with a cumulative worth in excess of $20 billion in the private equity, high yield bond, and distressed debt markets. He graduated summa cum laude with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and summa cum laude from the American University of Beirut, where he earned a BS in economics. Ziad is the best-selling author <i>Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics</i>, and he is featured on hundreds of media channels and publications every year. Ziad currently resides in New York City, NY.