Bank in New York, where he completed the Global Credit Training Program. He later held progressive international and domestic corporate lending positions with SoutheastBank, Citibank International, InterFirst Bank, the Irving Trust Company and Citicorp. His responsibilities included corporate relationship management, international and domestic portfolio management, loan syndications, trade and project financing and corporate workouts. In 1991 he established International Development & Finance (IDF), to assist companies in the evaluation, development and financing of international projects and opportunities. From 1991 to 1999 he worked on a wide range of consulting projects with clients in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Japan and Taiwan. In 1999, a major consulting client, Enron Engineering & Construction Company, hired him to manage the due diligence and project approval processes for Enron's engineering and construction business. After Enron’s bankruptcy in 2001, he was retained as a “key employee” to manage the workout of several problem joint ventures in Mexico, to sell certain companies and assets and to settle liabilities through the bankruptcy process. In 2006 he joined Texas Capital Bank to establish its international corporate lending and trade finance functions, before resuming his consulting activities through IDF in 2007. Mr. Gehle is a cross-cultural executive with 35 years' experience in international business and corporate finance. He lived 14 years in Santiago, Chile, Mexico City and Bogotá, Colombia, he is fluent in Spanish and has some knowledge of French and Portuguese. |
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William "Chip" Gehle Bachelor of Arts in Economics Southern Methodist University 1972 Master of International Management Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management 1973 Guest lecturer at the: American Management Association Texas Society of CPAs. University of Houston University of Miami University of Texas Tel. (1) 832-878-4614 wgehle@internationaldiligence.com |
