Mounir Nahas

Mr. Nahas is a Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Black Diamond and is responsible for the day to day operations of Black Diamond world-wide.  Mr. Nahas is the head of Black Diamond’s Finance Group, Treasury Group, and Information Systems Group and is a member of Black Diamond’s Executive Committee and Valuation Committee, of which he is the chairman.  Mr. Nahas also serves as a member of the board of directors of Pacific National Bank, a Federally Chartered Bank headquartered in Miami, and White Birch Paper Company, a leading paper and paperboard products manufacturer with mills in the U.S. and Canada.  Prior to Black Diamond, Mr. Nahas was Managing Director of Beacon Group, a private equity and mergers and acquisition firm purchased by JP Morgan Partners in 2000. Following that acquisition, Mr. Nahas joined JP Morgan Partners, where he led a 20-person department responsible for overall product and investment structuring, tax and accounting functions. Mr. Nahas began his career at Arthur Andersen.  He received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts and his M.S. in Accountancy from Bentley College.