Meet the T Bank Leadership Team

Chief Executive Officer
(also Chief Executive Officer, Tectonic Financial)

Haag Sherman is the Founder, principal stockholder, and Chief Executive Officer of Tectonic Financial, Inc., a diversified bank holding company that owns (directly or indirectly): T Bank, NA (a nationally chartered bank), Tectonic Advisors, LLC (a registered investment advisor), Sanders Morris LLC (a dual broker-dealer and registered investment advisor), T Bank’s trust department (with $2 billion in fiduciary assets), The Nolan Company (a third-party administrator), Integra Funding (a factoring company), and a record-keeping platform. Tectonic Financial has clients in all 50 states, nearly $9 billion in client assets, and loans in several different verticals. Tectonic is supported by a proprietary, internally developed software platform that has helped make it one of the most profitable (in terms of return on tangible equity) bank holding companies in the United States.

Prior to founding Tectonic, Haag 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, Haag 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. He also serves on the board of CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ), the nation’s largest publicly traded accounting firm, and previously served on the board of Hilltop Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTH) and other public companies. Haag has also served as the Executive Chairman of Episcopal High School’s board in Bellaire, Texas. He is currently a trustee of the Episcopal Health Foundation, a member of the Investment Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, and a member of the Governing Council of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Haag has commented and written extensively on public policy and financial matters, including authoring articles for Barron’s, Marketwatch, and other publications and writing 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. Haag holds a BBA degree, cum laude, with majors in Accounting and Economics from Baylor University and a Juris Doctor (with honors) from the University of Texas. Haag is a certified public accountant and a member of the State Bar of Texas.