Dr. Terry M. Saigh

Dr. Terry M. Saigh, CPA, BA, MBA, LLM, PhD, is Director in our US office with special responsibility for developing and promoting US investments to offshore investors. Dr. Saigh has over 30 years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance, project management, venture capital, US money-center bank syndication, accounting and auditing as a Fortune-500 executive, an independent financier and a venture capital startup entrepreneur. He was audit team supervisor, senior financial institution auditor and consultant, and computer system software coordinator with KMPG. Thereafter, he co-founded a successful venture capital backed boutique investment bank, then was recruited as world-wide head of leveraged leasing at Bank of America where he marketed, negotiated, structured, syndicated, and executed numerous transactions of between $25 million and $1 billion. Dr. Saigh was founder and Managing Director for several successful residential construction companies and an international development and investment banking firm, doing business on three continents. He is credited with forming the first international joint venture with the People's Republic of China. As venture capitalist investor, he was stockholding member of the California Small Business Corp, a body limited to venture capitalists only, and the first SBIC in the US. He was CFO for a biomedical startup with responsibility for all EU accounting, fundraising, banking relationships and intellectual property issues. He co-founded a French internet service provider, and has acted as advisor to many start-up companies, and the World Bank. He has done business in Austria, China, France, Italy, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the UK and the US and holds dual US-UK citizenship. While living in London, he served on the council of the Rotary Club of London. Dr. Saigh holds an AB (Economics and Mathematics) and MBA (Finance and Accounting) degrees from the University of Michigan, and both an LLM (International Banking Law, with special emphasis on the Basle Committee capital accords), and a cross-border Ph.D. in Corporate Governance Law from the University of London (the first such in the UK and the US). He has done post-doctorate research in corporate governance at the University of Michigan. He writes and consults on the corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley issues, and the IFRS-GAAP project for the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He has lectured at the University Of Michigan Graduate School Of Business and the University of California at Berkeley Extension.