Douglas Benedict

Douglas B. Benedict is the Managing Principal of Regent Advisors, a private corporate advisory firm serving technology, software and communications clients. He has served on our Board of Directors since 2013.  Through Regent Advisors, he currently serves as advisor to a number of clients including as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for Orbic LLC, a global technology equipment, hardware and services competitor, and also advises its subsidiaries and affiliates.  Most recently, he served as a Managing Director of Outcome Capital, a private investment banking firm with offices in New York, Boston, Washington DC and London, providing corporate and strategy development advice, and financial advisory and capital raising services, to public and private emerging growth and middle market technology, tech-enabled services and communications clients.  Prior to Outcome Capital, he spent seven years serving as a partner of both Scura Partners, an investment bank focused on small and medium-sized emerging growth technology companies, and as a Managing Director of OEM Capital, a technology and tech-enabled services investment bank also focused on public and private emerging growth companies. Previously, he served as Managing Director at MTN Capital Partners, a private equity firm where he focused on private investment opportunities targeting the technology and communications verticals.  Prior to MTN, Doug served for seven years as Senior Vice President of Business and Strategic Development at Cendant Corporation, a NYSE-listed global company with operations in 110 countries and 10,000 employees. During his career, he has served and continues to serve on a number of public and private company Boards of Directors and Boards of Advisors.  

Doug spent the first 15 years of his career as an investment banker in New York and London, primarily with Salomon/Smith Barney, Citigroup, and Bank of America, specifically focusing on telecommunications, technology and financial institution companies. 

He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.