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Susan Hagerty Le May

Founder & Chairman of International Alliance Associates

Ms. Hagerty Le May’s professional career has spanned over thirty years and includes over twenty five years of financial services, including most categories of alternative investments. She leads investment evaluation and business development in the Gulf Cooperation Countries “GCC”. Susan worked in the Houston office of Lehman Brothers before joining the International Group at Lehman in New York, where she developed both a Latin American practice and subsequently, a GCC practice. She has assumed responsibility for developing new business with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pension funds, royal families, endowments, merchant families and investment banks. Additionally, she has focused on buy-out and expansion capital transactions. She assumed responsibility for asset allocation planning, market research, manager searches, and due diligence. She is uniquely positioned to leverage resources of organizations seeking to enhance their branding and market share in strategic markets. In conjunction with the private equity firms which she has represented, Susan together with those firms has supported and managed over $1 Billion in cross-border GCC. These sectors have ranged from Indian Infrastructure Funds to Pan Asian Private Equity Real Estate Funds. She has become one of the most seasoned private equity placement agents with an emerging markets focus. Hagerty Le May has been a delegate at several senior level international summits, including the World Economic Forum (Davos) and the United Nations Development Program, where she has been a frequent speaker. As Chairman of International Alliance Associates, Limited, an alternative investment placement agency and boutique, cross border market entry consulting firm, she provides the entrepreneurial focus and vision to progress the overall corporate agenda. She oversees market research, manager searches and due diligence. She plays a pivotal role in the investment selection process and determining the firm’s overall strategy. She also oversees investor relations and back office functions. International Alliance is one of the pioneer alternative investment placement agents in the GCC. Ms. Hagerty Le May has over ten years of experience in growth and capital investment in emerging markets. She also has extensive experience representing multinational companies with challenging market entry dilemmas, into several emerging markets. Susan has published extensively on topics ranging from hedge funds to “Debt for Equity Swaps” in emerging markets. She has also assumed responsibility for deal origination and placement. She has led the firm’s fundraising in healthcare services, infrastructure development, greenfield projects, media, manufacturing, and renewable energy. Of the twenty five years’ professional experience in the financial services sector, ten have been in private equity, seventeen in hedge funds, real estate and other alternative and traditional investments and eight have been in structuring and managing client portfolios. Having assimilated culturally, and advised clients in Germany, Spain, Latin America and Member Nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, she is a polyglot familiar with numerous cultures. Her experience in foreign regulatory, investment issues, local economies and politics makes her an important conduit to successful business development in challenging markets. Ms. Hagerty Le May has spent over half of her life working and living in emerging markets.

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About International Alliance Associates: IAA is a US-based specialized boutique private equity placement agent and cross-border strategic advisory firm with US offices in New York.

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