Terry Maxwell is Director of Corporate Development and Strategic Investment and a member of Baird’s executive committee. In this role, he coordinates Baird’s efforts to identify, evaluate and implement strategic growth opportunities for all Baird business units. Terry joined Baird in 1986, eventually becoming Head of Investment Banking and a member of Baird’s executive committee and Board of Directors. He left Baird in 2006 to pursue an academic career as a corporate finance lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and was also an active private investor and the co-founder of an online start-up company. He rejoined Baird in 2014. Terry is a member of the board of Investors Real Estate Trust, the Center for Advanced Studies in Business at University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Greenhouse Funds. He received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.