Richard Schmidt

Profile
A highly successful entrepreneur and business owner for nearly two decades, Mr. Schmidt is well versed in all aspects of business ownership. As a long-time business owner, Mr. Schmidt has a wide ranging knowledge base encompassing revenue development, customer targeting, internal training, management, marketing, product management, sales, purchasing, finance and accounting.

Areas of Expertise

A skilled intermediary and business advisor with experience in a wide variety of business requirements, including financial analysis, marketing, long range planning, quality service and day-to-day operations and problem solving.
Fully understands the issues and dilemmas facing business owners and utilizes his experiences to assist business owners in becoming more successful and/or obtaining the maximum value in a sale or transition of ownership.

Areas of Expertise Continued

Experienced negotiator for diverse goods and services.
Extensive small business financial background with history of responsibility for operating budgets, financial controls, and providing forecasts for annual amounts of up to $10 million.

Professional Experience

Small business owner for nearly 20 years with responsibilities for the management and daily operations. of a $1 million retail operation.
Served as Director of Project Support Services responsible for overall management and fiscal reporting, manpower forecasting, planning and budgeting, CADDS and contract administration for all of the support services departments.
Program coordinator for major engineering firm responsible for the management and project direction of 58 employees in planning, scheduling, cost control and estimating functions on projects and proposals.
A licensed real estate agent in Oklahoma.

Special Projects

Received Oklahoma Governor’s “Contributor to the State of Excellence” award for effort on State of Oklahoma’s Department of Energy’s Superconducting Super Collider Proposal (SSC).
Author of monograph titled, “Oklahoma’s Bid for Superconducting Super Collider: Lessons Learned” for the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce. Education
Tulsa University (Tulsa, Oklahoma), B.S. degree in Business Administration and Marketing with a minor in engineering.
Completed all requirements to become a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) while a member of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) in 2008.

Community Involvement
Mr. Schmidt has served on various company boards and is active in the local community.