Doug McCormick is a Managing Partner at HCI Equity Partners (formerly Thayer | Hidden Creek) having joined the firm in January 1999. He focuses on the Firm’s aerospace, defense, logistics and outsourced business services investment initiatives. Before joining Thayer, Doug worked in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co., where he was involved in the completion of numerous mergers and acquisitions and acquisition-related financing transactions with a cumulative aggregate value in excess of $10 billion. He previously served as a Captain in the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division and received numerous awards for performance and achievement. He is a frequent public speaker on the topics of the role of private equity in federal services and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) investing. He is a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and a member of the ESOP Association where he serves on the Finance Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of Suntron Corporation and as Vice Chairman of Naumann/Hobbs Material Handling, Inc., Quadel Consulting Corporation and Herndon Products, Inc. Doug received his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is a member of the 2011 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.