Joseph Sigelman is the Chairman and a Director of the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company (http://www.agp.ph), or AG&P. AG&P is the leading fabrication and modularization company based in Southeast Asia. It modularizes petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, power plants, offshore platforms, LNG facilities and mining processing and refining operations. AG&P is 110 years old. It employs over 3,000 professionals. In 2011, AG&P completed and shipped 98 modules that comprised the world's first modular coker of its scale and complexity. Earlier, AG&P delivered a major nickel mining operation in 322 modules. New projects will service LNG projects in Australia, an important refinery upgrade and various power initiatives. AG&P currently has over 1.5 million square meters of fabrication yard and its two assembly and fabrication yards each sits on a deep-sea port, with its modules sent to Australasia, North America, Central Asia and the Arabian peninsula. Joe took on his current role in 2011 after DMCI (http://www.dmciholdings) spun-off AG&P.
Prior to this, Joe headed PetroTiger (http://www.petrotiger.com), the over 2,400-professional company he co-founded in 2007. PetroTiger has two focuses. Firstly, PetroTiger focuses on the full suite of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services, including conceptual, basic and detailed engineering, project and construction management and construction. PetroTiger engages in the EPC of petroleum field infrastructure, such as production facilities (1mm barrels per day in total production built), gas compression and treatment, water treatment and injection, refinery development and expansion, pipelines and power plants (2,100 MWs built or in progress in 2010). In June 2010, PetroTiger acquired 100% of the equity of Inelectra International, a major EPC provider serving Latin America and Spain. In 2008, PetroTiger acquired a majority stake in Gomez, Cajiao y Associados, a 40-year old civil engineering firm, engaged in the design and construction supervision of major infrastructure projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including refineries, central production facilities and other petroleum surface equipment, roads, railroads, bridges, dams, power plants, pipelines, transportation systems and water conduits. Secondly, PetroTiger engages in the optimization of oil and gas field production, from reservoir to pipeline, including services such as testing, pumping, wireline, slickline, perforation, stimulation, coiled tubing and workover. PetroTiger operates across Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and in Southeast Asia. PetroTiger's clients include national oil companies, super-majors, large independent exploration firms, global mining companies, pipeline operators and local, national and supra-national government authorities.
In 1999, Joe co-founded OfficeTiger, which became a several thousand-professional firm focused on providing premedia, accounting, research and analytics. legal and actuarial services for large corporations, investment banks and law firms. Joe served as OfficeTiger’s Co-Chief Executive Officer until its $250 million acquisition in 2006 by RR Donnelley (NYSE:RRD) and then as its Co-President for a subsequent year. OfficeTiger had 42 locations around the world, including in New York City, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, India, Sri Lanka, the UK and Poland from which it executed its services.
Joe previously worked with Goldman Sachs International in London in the Whitehall Street Private Equity Funds. Originally from New York City, Joe began his career with Lazard Frères. Joe is a graduate with honors of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and of The Harvard Business School. He was awarded one of BusinessWeek Magazine’s 2005 Annual Star of Asia Awards. He was cited by Institutional Investor as one of its 50 top influencers in the finance industry. In 2004, he received the Jewel of India Award. In 2008, Joe was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.