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Honorary Consulate-General of the Republic of Singapore in Vancouver

Terrance K. Salman

Biographical summary of Terrance K. Salman, Honorary Consul-General of Singapore in Vancouver, Canada.

Last updated 6 November 2025

Present Position/ Profession: Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Salman Partners Inc.

Education:

  • 1970: Bachelor of Arts, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii

  • 1973: Master of Business Administration, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut

  • 2009: Doctor of Technology, “honoris causa”, The BC Institute of Technology, Vancouver, BC

Career:

Career timeline of Terrance K. Salman

1973 – 1994

Nesbit Thomson

1985 – 1994

Executive Vice President & Director (Vancouver)

Responsible for the firm’s corporate and government finance activities in British Columbia, the Pacific Rim and western United States.

1978 – 1985

Manager, Corporate & Government Finance (Calgary)

Organized and built the firm’s first investment banking operation in Alberta. Grew the operation into one of the largest in the province and one of the most profitable centres of the company. Responsible for all underwriting activities, mergers and acquisitions, valuations and fairness opinions and private placements.

1978 – 1985

Manager, Corporate & Government Finance, Western Canada (Vancouver)

Built the firm’s first investment banking operation in British Columbia. Responsible for the firm’s corporate and government finance activities in western Canada, including underwriting activities, mergers and acquisitions advice, valuations and fairness opinions and private placement.

1973 – 1978

Senior Research Analyst (Montreal)

Responsible for coverage of Canadian Pacific Limited, Canadian chartered banks, Imasco Ltd, the Canadian cable television industry and Reed Shaw. Chosen by the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration to do a study on Canadian Pacific (1974).

1962 – 1966

United States Marine Corps

Other appointments: 

Other appointments held by Terrance K. Salman

Current

  • Chair of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation

  • Honorary Chair of the Britannia Development Corporation Fundraising Committee

  • Advisory Committee Member for the Investment Industry Association of Canada

Former

  • Panel Member on the Government of Canada’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulations

  • Director of The Arthritis Society BC & Yukon Division

  • Director of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation

  • Chair of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada

  • Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for the Stem Cell Network

  • Director of the Playhouse Theatre Company

  • Director of Southam Inc.

  • Governor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange

  • Chair of St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation

  • Trustee of St. Paul’s Hospital

  • Member of the Financial Advisory Board, XI Conference on AIDS

  • Director of the International Financial Centre, Vancouver