Doug Schmidt is an investment banker and writer. He is the founder of Chessiecap Securities, Inc.(www.chessiecap.com), a boutique investment bank that provides investment banking services to growth and technology companies. As a writer, he produces articles and editorials on a variety of topics from business to politics to sports.
Doug has been an active member of the Mid-Atlantic financial community for over 20 years and is one of the most experienced middle market professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region. As an investment banker with Ferris, Baker Watts and Legg Mason Wood Walker and as an investor with Grotech Capital Group, Doug has participated in the exceptional economic growth of technology in the region. He began his investment banking career in the 1980s with First Chicago and then Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York, where he was a merger and acquisition specialist.
His published articles explore the intersection of morality and common human activity. The editorial for The Baltimore Sun on the anniversary of September 11, highlights the courage and perseverance of the families of Maryland victims. The three part series on the sale of Black & Decker to The Stanley works, published in Baltimore Citibizlist, exposed failings at the Black & Decker board level that led to two The Wall Street Journal articles.
Doug holds an AB from Harvard College and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management. Lesser known but revealing facts include that Doug, as a reprobate young man, rode a motorcycle the length of Africa, sailed on a tall ship in the Indian Ocean, and crossed Borneo overland from east to west. He and his wife live a far more settled existence in Maryland, where they are finishing up raising the second of two boys.
