Ziad Abdelnour
Ziad K Abdelnour in 2014
Born (1960-12-03) 3 December 1960
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityLebanese, American
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Author, wall street financier, political activist, influencer
Known for
  • Founder, President, and CEO of Blackhawk Partners Inc
  • Founder and chairman, Financial Policy Council
  • Founding Member and Partner, OMV Capital
Websitewww.ziadabdelnour.net

Ziad Abdelnour (Arabic: زياد عبد النور; born 3 December 1960) is a Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier,[1] activist, and author of Start-Up Saboteurs and Economic Warfare. He is the president and CEO of Blackhawk Partners Inc, a New-York based private equity firm founded in 2008. He is the founder and president of the Financial Policy Council (FPC),[2] founding member and partner of OMV Capital, and chairman of the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL).[3][4]

In 2016, Ziad was named one of the 500 most influential CEOs in the world by Richtopia.[5]

Early life

Ziad Abdelnour was born on 3 December 1960, in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Lebanese industrialist and former Member of parliament Khalil Abdelnour (1992–2000) and the nephew of the former financier and MP Salem Abdelnour (1960 – 1964 and 1972–1992). Abdelnour is the eldest child among five children. He took his early education in a private boarding school first in France and then in Switzerland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1982 from the American University of Beirut and received an MBA degree in finance from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania.[6]

Career

Since 1997 Abdelnour has been chairman and a founding member of the United States Committee for A Free Lebanon, an activist organization lobbying the United States government to oppose Syria's influence in Lebanon and supporting the Syria Accountability Act.[6] He supported the neoconservative Middle East Forum, co-authoring a Forum study whose signatories included later George W. Bush administration officials Paula Dobriansky and Douglas Feith.[1][7] Abdelnour was co-chair of the Lebanon Study Group, which produced the report entitled Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role.[8]

Following graduation in 1984 from the Wharton School, Abdelnour worked as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert where he was a Junk bond trader under Michael Milken.[1][9] In 2008, after a 20-year career on Wall Street advising and investing in privately held companies, he founded his own investment company/private family office, Blackhawk Partners, Inc. engaged in the physical commodities trading and private equity businesses.[10]

Abdelnour has spoken several times on T.V[11][12][13] and has written on wealth creation, physical commodities trading, and Middle East Geopolitical analysis and has been a regular panelist and speaker on private equity and venture capital topics at industry conferences nationwide.[14][15]

He is the author of 'Economic Warfare-Secrets of Wealth Creation',[16][17] and ' Startup Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation'.

Abdelnour serves as chairman of the Board of Hawkstorm Global, an elite executive protection firm focusing on High Net Worth Personal Security Protection, Asset Protection, High-Intensity Conflict Intervention, Investigations, Security Consulting, and Crisis Management.

Abdelnour also serves on the advisory board of DPG Investments.[6]

He is also one of the founding members and a partner of OMV Capital, an advisory and funding platform engaged in financing multimillion real estate and projects on a global basis.

SEC Settlement (2013)

In 2013, Ziad K. Abdelnour was involved in a legal matter with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). An out-of-court settlement was reached, where Abdelnour agreed to pay a fine of $25,000 and accepted a five-year ban from trading securities. This action by the SEC was in response to Abdelnour's involvement in a scheme to offer and sell fictitious "prime bank" securities through Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a company he founded.

The SEC found that from at least September 2009 to April 2011, Abdelnour solicited investors for trading programs under the guise of Blackhawk Partners, falsely promising returns of up to 600% in as little as seven days, without any associated risk. However, these claims were unfounded and deceptive. The settlement marked a significant reprimand for Abdelnour's misleading financial practices during this period. [18]

Books

  • Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics, John Wiley & Sons (24 January 2012), ISBN 978-1118150122
  • Start-Up Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation, Morgan James Publishing (11 June 2020), ISBN 978-1642796957

Awards and recognition

  • The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2021 Marquis Who's Who
  • Named as one of the '500 most influential CEO in the world' by Richtopia in 2016.[5]
  • Awarded as a 'Global Shaper from the World Economic Forum' in 2017.[19]
  • Famous 300 American financiers in US history, 2016

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thomas, Landon Jr. (1 August 2006). "From Lebanese- American Financiers, Differing Views on the Strife". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Ziad K. Abdelnour Founder and Chairman". Financial Policy Council.
  3. ↑ Blitz, Editor (16 November 2018). "Ziad K. Abdelnour joins Blitz". Weekly Blitz. {{cite news}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ "Ziad Abdelnour on Why President Trump Will Win Again in 2020". Weekly Blitz. 25 November 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Top 500 Most Influential CEOs Powerlist (2015)". Richtopia. 24 December 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 "Ziad K Abdelnour – Founder, President & CEO, Blackhawk Partners, Inc". Underdog. 2 May 2017.
  7. ↑ Marinova, Nadejda K. (1 June 2017). "Ask What You Can Do For Your (New) Country: How Host States Use Diasporas". Oxford University. ISBN 9780190623425.
  8. ↑ Pipes, Daniel; Abdelnour, Ziad (2000). Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role : Report of the Lebanon Study Group. Middle East Forum. ISBN 978-0-9701484-0-7.
  9. ↑ "Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics". John Wiley & Sons. 21 November 2011. ISBN 9781118197639.
  10. ↑ Shoaib Choudhury, Salah Uddin. "Ziad Abdelnour: A Profile in Insight, Hope, Courage". The Seoul Times.
  11. ↑ "How's ISIS able to Make Millions each Day from Oil Sales". Fox News. 23 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Ziad Abdelnour". Alhurra. 22 December 2011.
  13. ↑ "How the coronavirus could impact investors' relationship with China". New Tang Dynasty Television. 17 March 2020.
  14. ↑ "[The Murder of the Middle Class] | C-SPAN.org". C-SPAN. 17 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "Robots Taking Over the Workplace – with Ziad K Abdelnour and Rick Amato". KSDY-LD. 26 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "Entrepreneur Middle East May 2014 | Batting Luxury Out of the Ballpark". Issuu: 87. 10 May 2014.
  17. ↑ "Defending the Rich from the Author of 'Economic Warfare'". CNBC. 10 May 2012.
  18. ↑ https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/admin/2013/33-9402.pdf
  19. ↑ "Ziad K. Abdelnour – Evolve Magazine". Evolve Magazine. 22 May 2019.
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