Terry G. Davis

Executive M.B.A., ‘08

Terry Davis, a member of the first graduating class of Auburn Montgomery’s Executive M.B.A. program, is the managing partner in the law firm of Davis and Hatcher, LLC, with offices in Montgomery and Atlanta.

A practicing attorney for more than 20 years, Davis specializes in the areas of business, employment, government, information technology and the Internet. He has represented clients ranging from start-up companies to governmental agencies to large corporate entities. Most notably, he served as the chief business strategist and legal advisor to Digital Seas International, a Montgomery-based company that partnered with MTN Satellite Communications and was the first to bring Internet connectivity to international cruise lines in the late 1990s, and the services are still in use by most major cruise lines today.

It was that interest in business law and consulting that led him to earn the Executive M.B.A. in 2008, and he continues to use those skills as he works with local companies and small and medium-sized businesses across the country.

Davis shares his experience and passion with new business leaders of the River Region through the Entrepreneurial University at the Montgomery Small Business Resource Center, where he has been a guest instructor since the university’s inception in 1996. For both the center and others he frequently conducts seminars and appears as a guest speaker on topics such as how to start, operate and finance a successful business and the art of contract negotiation.

He also has served on numerous corporate boards in the banking and insurance industries and currently is a member of the boards of directors for both the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce and Envision 2020. He is a former president of Leadership Montgomery and a graduate of Leadership Alabama.

"I have a passion for helping people and helping the city grow,” Davis said. "That’s why I have been involved in a number of charitable and civic activities – wanting to see our city and state be the best places they can be.”

That desire to give back also has led him to serve as president of the local boards of the Heart Association and the Montgomery Ballet and as a volunteer for the United Way. As a volunteer for the American Cancer Society recently, he was among the "rats” for the society’s Biggest Rat in Town fundraiser.

In addition to his Auburn Montgomery degree, Davis earned an undergraduate degree from Alabama State University in 1976 and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham in 1979.