Douglas M. Schmidt
Partner

Mr. Schmidt 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 region. As an investment banker with Ferris, Baker Watts and Legg Mason Wood Walker and as an investor with Grotech Capital Group, Mr. Schmidt has participated in the exceptional growth of technology companies in the region. He has helped to finance technology companies such as BTG, MAXIMUS, Anteon, Covansys, PEC Solutions, and USinternetworking. Mr. Schmidt 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. In over two decades, he has led scores of private and public market merger and acquisition transactions, including sales of Management Systems International, NFR Security, IRRC, Questech, Business Impact Systems, and SHERIKON. As an investment banker for growth and middle market technology companies, Mr. Schmidt has executed over $3 billion in M&A, private placements, and IPO transactions.

Mr. Schmidt is a longstanding member and former director of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA), past chairman of the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, and an active member and former chairperson of the Northern Virginia Technology Council's Capital Formation Committee. He is active as a speaker in the region on a variety of topics including financing, entrepreneurship, and M&A. Mr. Schmidt holds an AB from Harvard College and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management.

Contact: doug@chessiecap.com or 410.952.2789

Bradford W. Harries
Partner

Mr. Harries has been an investment banker for over thirty years and has been located in the Mid-Atlantic region since 1995, specializing in serving the telecommunications and information technology industries. Mr. Harries has spent the majority of his career with Wall Street investment banking firms developing a particular expertise in serving the corporate finance needs of emerging growth companies.  His transaction experience includes public and private financings, mergers & acquisitions, and financial advisory services. Prior to Chessiecap, Mr. Harries was head of investment banking for Kaufman Bros., a telecommunications focused boutique firm in New York. Prior to Kaufman, he served as president of the investment banking side of Columbia Capital in Alexandria, Virginia. At Columbia, Mr. Harries leveraged the existing M&A business and began a private placement practice assisting pre-public communications-oriented companies  in raising $5 to $20 million rounds of capital. Mr. Harries has also held investment banking positions in New York and San Francisco at Furman Selz, Cowen & Company, First Boston, Shearson Lehman Hutton, and Dean Witter Reynolds.

Mr. Harries has served on the boards of several venture-backed companies and currently serves as the chairman of YellowBrix (privately-held in Alexandria, VA). Mr. Harries received both his A.B. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Contact: brad@chessiecap.com or 703.447.0327

 Service Partners

Chessiecap partners regularly with the highest quality technology and strategy professionals in the region. We believe that one of our major differentiators is the investment banking, strategic, and technology experience and expertise that we bring to companies in support of a transaction. Our partners are led by senior executives who are known regionally and nationally as leaders in their fields. Chessiecap's partners include:

NewPlan was founded to help high tech companies achieve their operating objectives through great up-front planning and on-going relationship building. Working with your team, we map out concrete, executable strategies that will enable your entire business to operate on all cylinders and then build the needed relationships to make the plan a reality. Visit the NewPlan website

Ten Mile Square provides a targeted set of technology consulting services designed to make a substantive difference in the value of a business. Based on industry best practices in product management and development methodologies, our hands-on technologists bring to clients the ability to architect, design, develop, and deliver to market offerings that align completely with customer needs. In addition, our technology assessment and due diligence processes give companies and investors a clear, complete view of product capabilities and underlying technology in days - not weeks or months. Visit the Ten Mile Square website