Bio

Oren Schmidt is a Principal at Heritage Capital Group, Inc., a middle-market investment banking firm headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. His primary focus is Aerospace & Defense merger & acquisitions and strategic consulting assignments for clients. Oren leads both sell-side and buy-side assignments for clients seeking to sell or grow their businesses as well as strategic consulting to drive value, create moat and increase profitability in businesses. Oren’s career in the A&D industry spans more than 23 years. Under his guidance and ownership, he grew a small niche distribution, repair, and technical services company focusing on fluid conveyance products into a large multinational brand recognized and approved by every major OEM and aftermarket customer globally. The company also established prestigious authorized distribution and repair agreements with such key aerospace manufacturers as PCC, Transdigm, and LISI Aerospace. Oren also established a highly successful joint venture in Germany, providing localized kanban programs supporting direct line feed for Airbus single-aisle and wide-body platforms. In 2019, Oren facilitated the strategic acquisition of his company, Orkal Industries, by Marmon Holdings, LLC, a Berkshire Hathaway Company. Oren was promoted to the role of group company president for the aerospace division shortly thereafter, having successfully led the company under corporate ownership to multi-year record results post-acquisition. Oren earned a bachelor’s degree from the NYU Gallatin School as well as an MBA from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. He has taken strategic marketing classes at Chicago Business School, Booth School of Business. He currently mentors local high school students in an incubator program for developing business strategy.