New York, NY – The next Power Summit of the Financial Policy Council (FPC) will be held on Wednesday September 13, 2017 from 6:30 – 9:00 PM at The Graduate Center / CUNY at 365 Fifth Avenue at The Elebash Recital Hall, New York. The Summit will feature an expert panel of commodity and financial authorities that will discuss gold and energy as an “ever growing asset class that is of increasing importance the world over.”

The event, sponsored by the Noble Group and International Coin Alliance, will have a panel discussion featuring:

Jeff Frase, Chief Executive Officer of Noble Group and President of Noble Americas, with 25 years of commodity trading expertise.

Keith Jacobsen, Owner of Keith Jacobsen LLC , co-Owner of International Coin Alliance (ICA), and Director of the British Pobjoy Mint Special Services department. He has been in the collectible coin business for over 25 years.
Francisco Blanch, managing director and head of Global Commodities and Derivatives Research, Merrill Lynch/Bank of America and appears regularly in highly regarded research publications.

Michelle Brouhard, managing director Noble Group. Michelle Brouhard joins Noble Group with 17 years of commodity trading experience in oil, natural gas and electricity.

Ilia Bouchouev, President of Koch Global Partners. For the past twenty years he has been managing the global derivatives business with the focus on energy trading.

The panel will be moderated by Ziad K. Abdelnour, a Wall Street Financier, Author, Philanthropist, Activist, Lobbyist, Oil & Gas Trader & President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a New York based private equity “family office” that focuses on originating, structuring, advising and acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations, buildups, and growth capital financing in companies and projects based both in the US and emerging markets and the trading of key physical commodities. Mr. Abdelnour is also Founder & Chairman of the Board of the Financial Policy Council.

The Financial Policy Power Summit tickets can be purchased on the Financial Policy Council website at http://www.financialpolicycouncil.org/buy-tickets/. The cost is $49.00 per person. Pre-registration is encouraged.

Previous events have included Investing in Art & Luxury Items; The Drag Race of Digital Progress… Are You Belted In?, which looked at the changing digital landscape, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Information on Demand mean for digital media, its investors, and content creators; Making Money in Real Estate Today: Challenges and Opportunities; and Applied Artificial Intelligence Power Summit, which delved into the growing trend in the business world, and is redefining the way humans interact with each other and the world around them, with the Artificial Intelligence equity funding exceeded 6 billion dollars over 1,098 deals over the last several years; and many more.

The Financial Policy Council is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization designed to give its select group of supporters the opportunity to have direct face-to-face dialogue with the nation’s quintessential powerbrokers and policymakers and to produce, host, and promote events that educate the public about current affairs (domestic and global) and their impact economically.