My NYC Mentor: David Meachin, we are having a nice reunion !! Wooohoo!! David Meachin Chairman & CEO, Cross Border Enterprises David Meachin, who spent his formative years in KwaZulu-Natal, is a graduate of both the University of Natal, where he was the recipient of a SA Breweries scholarship, and the University of Cape Town. He subsequently studied at the French Petroleum Institute in Paris, having been awarded the Total Oil Postgraduate Scholarship for South Africa, and then went on to study at Cambridge University and received his MBA with distinction from Harvard. David is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Border Enterprises, L.L.C., crossborderent, an internationally-oriented boutique investment bank he founded in 1991. Cross Border assists IT and technology focused companies with their investment banking (M&A and financing) and business development needs. Previously he served for 20 years on Wall Street as a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch & Company in New York after being associated with Salomon Brothers in New York and London and with Smith, Barney & Co. in New York and Tokyo. He started his career as a Project Engineer for Humphreys and Glasgow Ltd., a London-based international chemical plant contracting company. He has served on public SEC-reporting company boards for 16 years. Companies on whose boards he has served include Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE), the global Fortune 100 Company which was sold in a going private transaction for $19 billion in cash for the equity and debt of the company; Millennium Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE), The Ground Round ( NASDAQ), and Metha Energy Solutions Inc. (OTC). He has also served on the board of an Indian Emerging Growth Fund. He has served for over 20 years as Vice Chairman of the University of Cape Town Fund in the United States, which has funded the education of a significant number of Black students at UCT. He is also a Director and past Chairman of the British American Educational Foundation, and an Advisory Board Member of Structured Credit International Corp. (SCIC). He is a Member of The Economic Club of New York. David is a frequent speaker and forum participant on issues of corporate governance, private equity and investment banking at Director Conferences and at university Business and Law Schools in the US and internationally. He has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and traveled extensively on business in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, India, South East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Finance.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:35:49 +0000
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