Haag Sherman

Chief Executive Officer

Haag Sherman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tectonic Financial. He serves on the Board of Directors for Tectonic Financial, as well as an executive officer and director of Tectonic Financial’s subsidiaries.

Prior to founding Tectonic, Mr. Sherman co-founded and served in various executive positions (including Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer) of Salient Partners, a Houston-based investment firm. Under his leadership, the firm's assets grew to $17.5 billion. He developed the vast majority of Salient’s investment products and co-developed patented software that provided scale to the distribution of Salient’s investment products.

Before co-founding Salient, Mr. Sherman was an executive officer and partner at The Redstone Companies, where, among other things, he managed a private equity portfolio with a concentration in financial services. Prior to that, he practiced corporate law at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and worked as an auditor at Price Waterhouse, a public accounting firm. A certified public accountant and attorney, he has served as an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law and serves on the boards of CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ), Hilltop Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTH), and other companies. Mr. Sherman has also been the Executive Chairman of Episcopal High School's board in Bellaire, Texas.
 
Mr. Sherman has commented and written extensively on public policy and financial matters, including authoring articles for Barron’s, Marketwatch and other publications and wrote Shattering Orthodoxies: An Economic and Foreign Policy Blueprint for America (Easton Press, 2008), which reached no. 6 on Amazon’s top Social and Economic Policy Books after publication. Mr. Sherman holds a BBA degree, cum laude, with majors in Accounting and Economics from Baylor University and a Juris Doctorate (with honors) from the University of Texas.  Mr. Sherman is a certified public accountant and a member of the State Bar of Texas.