Ziad K Abdelnour

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Ziad K. Abdelnour (Ziad Khalil Abdelnour) is a New York-based financier and venture capitalist. He is also the founder and president of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), an advocacy organization which established the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin in 1999.

Abdelnour was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1961. He took his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his career on Wall Street, Abdelnour has been involved in transactions representing approximately $30 billion in value and has personally raised over $3.5 billion in privately placed debt and equity financing for dozens of companies worldwide involved in leveraged buyout, acquisition financing, growth financing and corporate restructuring. He has held high-level positions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, American Express Financial Advisors, Ltd., and other investment and capital companies. He is currently President and 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.

Abdelnour was co-chair of the Lebanon Study Group, which produced a report entitled Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role.