Irena Schmidt

Ms. Schmidt has extensive experience advising middle market companies on strategic and financing options.
Prior to joining Industrial Renaissance, Ms. Schmidt was a Vice President at Silverline Partners, a consumer-focused private equity fund.
She was also a Vice President at SMH Capital, Retail and Consumer Growth Practice, specializing in corporate finance and transactional advisory services for middle market companies in the retail, apparel, consumer products and restaurant sectors.
Ms. Schmidt's past clients include Cygne Designs, Blue Holdings, People's Liberation, Barmensen, I.C.
Isaacs, Bare Escentuals, Ruby Tequila's Mexican Kitchen, The Counter Gourmet Burgers, Geoffrey Beene, Unitek, Portero, Levitz, and BCBG.
Before joining SMH Capital in 2002, Ms. Schmidt was a member of the Global Technology Group at CSFB's Investment Banking Division, focusing on enterprise infrastructure, applications software and communications software markets.
While there, she executed equity and debt offerings, raised private capital and structured merger and acquisition transactions for start-up, middle-market and Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to that, Ms. Schmidt was at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, where she focused on the retail and consumer products industry.
Ms. Schmidt graduated as a Regent Scholar with concentrations in international business, finance and accounting from the Walter A.
Haas School of Business at the UC Berkeley.