George Khouri, Managing Director, was with the private placement group at Salomon Brothers from 1973 to 1985 and ran the group from 1983 to 1985. After that Mr. Khouri was President of Prudential Bache Capital Partners, a $72 million private equity fund. Mr. Khouri ran the New York Capital Markets group of Nomura Securities from the early nineties. Mr. Khouri was a founder of New York Venture Space a shared office space for startup companies.

Mr. Khouri was an advisor to an Amex listed venture fund and has worked in the M & A space with several boutique investment banks from 1998 to 2012 focusing on consumer products and energy related companies. He was in the Capital Markets group of Drexel Hamilton focusing on energy companies. Mr. Khouri graduated from Tufts University with a BA in Economics and French and an MBA in Investments from New York University.