Chad Gracia focuses on helping U.S. and international private equity and real estate fund managers to build strong LP relationships in the Middle East, where he has raised more than $1 billion for his clients. For more than twenty years, he has worked with high net worth individuals in the region, as well as advised Saudi ambassadors, the Saudi Royal Court, the Bahrain Royal Court, various regional institutions, the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) as well as the U.S. government. Since 2013, the Gracia Group has been the private sector mission leader for U.S. Commerce Department Certified Private Equity and Real Estate trade missions to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE and Oman, where he has introduced fund managers to more than 100 active LP allocators, including dozens of local family offices and all of the regional sovereign wealth funds. He has worked closely with U.S. embassies and ambassadors to introduce these delegations to local LPs.Since 2018, Chad has been a broker at Rainmaker Securities, focusing on trading in the pre-IPO unicorn secondaries market. If you want to stay on top of breaking news in the pre-IPO "unicorn" space, join my Telegram Channel: https://t.me/UnicornUpdatesChad is also a Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary film director and is Series 7, 63 registered with FINRA.