Nick Schmitt joined BCDC in 2020 and serves as Senior Vice President of Finance and Investments. In this role, Nick leads BCDC’s Finance Team and is responsible for the financial evaluation, underwriting, and execution oversight of the firm’s investment and development activities.
Nick is also responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities, evaluating prospective joint venture partners, and executing new investment and development initiatives.
Nick supports transaction structuring and execution, providing financial and structural input to ensure alignment with approved business plans. He also leads portfolio-level financial oversight through valuation and disposition analysis to support strategic decision making at exit. In addition, Nick is involved in corporate business planning and forecasting and helps ensure the effective implementation of BCDC’s business plans across the portfolio.
Prior to joining BCDC, Nick was an Associate in the Leveraged Finance group at Antares Capital in Atlanta, where he focused on debt and co-equity investments. He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Deloitte Corporate Finance (formerly McColl Partners) in Dallas, with a focus on middle-market mergers and acquisitions.
Nick graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama, earning a B.S. in Economics and Finance from the Culverhouse College of Business.
Outside of work, Nick enjoys coaching youth baseball, hunting, and golfing, and is active with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta and the Urban Land Institute.