Patrick Siegler-Lathrop is a French-American dual national living in Portugal, with a 40+ year career in finance, as an investment banker, entrepreneur/industrialist, professor and consultant. He has extensive experience in investment advice, investment strategy, international financings, mergers and acquisitions, and entrepreneurship.
In addition to a 15-year career in investment banking, he has launched a number of businesses, owned and run an industrial company for 17 years, served as a senior advisor to companies, particularly in the energy sector, as consultant for individuals and families in their investments, and taught entrepreneurship at major business schools.
After Princeton University, Science Po in Paris and an MBA from Harvard, he learned the finance business at Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of Wall Street’s leading firms at the time, where he became a vice-president in 2.5 years, spending 6 years in New York and 2 years in London, handling dozens of international financings, acquisitions, stock issues, etc.
He subsequently was for 6 years co-head of investment banking at BAII – Banque Arabe et Internationale d’Investissements, a Paris-based merchant bank which became a leader in international financial dealings with the Arab world. At BAII, he was involved in virtually all of their investment transactions, including real estate and portfolio investments for wealthy clients.
In the mid-1980’s, he became an industrialist, purchasing and running for about 17 years a chemical products company which multiplied ten-fold under his leadership.
During the 1990’s, Patrick taught at Insead, one of the top business schools in the world, and at Paris University, Dauphine, courses in Entrepreneurship and Finance. Since 2000, he has been a financial consultant to companies, individuals and families. In addition to having written many cases in entrepreneurship, Patrick has written and published articles on international finance and economics.
Patrick was also a founder and 30-year Board member of Action against Hunger, one of the leading NGO’s combating hunger in the world.