Julien Balkany
Julien Balkany, (29), has been serving as a managing member and Chief Investment Officer of Nanes Balkany Partners LLC, the general partner of Nanes Balkany Partners I LP (formerly known as Nanes Delorme Partners I LP) since January 2008. Concomitantly, Mr. Balkany has been a Managing Director and Foreign Associate at Nanes Delorme Capital Management LLC, a New York based broker-dealer firm, since March 2005. Mr. Balkany has also been serving as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Stellar Energy Ltd., a London-based investment boutique dedicated to the oil and gas industry, since April 2010. Mr. Balkany worked at Pierson Capital LLC, a U.S. private investment firm focused primarily on emerging markets, from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that Mr. Balkany gained significant expertise in the Emerging Markets Debt Capital Markets Group of Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. Mr. Balkany studied Political Science at the Institute of Political Studies (France) and Finance at UC Berkeley. Mr. Balkany is also fluent in French and Spanish.