P. Michael Saint

A graduate of Holy Cross College with a degree in political science, Mike earned his master's in business administration from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He has done additional study at the University of Chicago Business School and at the Harvard Business School.

Mike serves on the board of directors of the Association of Management Consulting Firms in New York, the board of directors of the Nashville Opera Association, and the board of trustees of George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ. He is a member of the advisory board of the Civic Bank and Trust in Nashville and the executive board of the Nashville District Council of the Urban Land Institute. He also is a trustee on the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Consulting and Management Inc.

He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the National Sand, Stone & Gravel Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Mike has been a guest lecturer at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University. He is the author and co-author of articles published in Land Development magazine, Urban Land magazine, Shopping Center Business, the Stone, Sand and Gravel Review, REBusiness Online and Design Intelligence magazine.

He has addressed the International Council of Shopping Centers Conference on Open-Air Centers and it's ReCON Global Retail Real Estate Convention in Las Vegas, the Commercial Retail Council of the Urban Land Institute, the Missouri Limestone Producers Association, the Government Affairs Committee of the National Sand, Stone & Gravel Association, the Ontario Sand, Stone & Gravel Association and the Pennsylvania Gaming Congress and Racing Forum, and other international, national and regional business organizations.

Mike is founder, CEO and chairman of The Saint Consulting Group, the world's largest and most experienced firm in the new management consulting discipline of land use politics. After a career in journalism, politics and public relations, he founded the company in 1983 in Massachusetts. Today, it serves clients from eight offices in the United States, and an international office in London.

The Saint Consulting Group has worked on more than 1,500 controversial projects in 44 U.S. states, in Canada and in England. Assignments have included office parks, hotels, hospitals, retail centers, power plants, quarries, landfills, casinos, mixed-use developments, malls, heliports, golf courses and an oil refinery. Mike Saint and his colleagues have developed specialized political techniques that help clients generate public support to ensure that they prevail in the local governmental approval process.