Theodore E. Niedermayer

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Fitch Group at Hearst

Theodore E. Niedermayer is chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Fitch Group. He was named CFO in June 2014 and began working for the company earlier the same year. In February 2019, Niedermayer was additionally named chief operating officer of Fitch Group.

Niedermayer was previously chief operating officer and senior managing director of finance at H/2 Capital Partners, an alternative investment manager and special servicer focused on commercial real estate credit. Prior to H/2, he was a managing director in the media and telecom investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before joining Merrill Lynch in 2004, Niedermayer was a managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co. in the media and communications investment banking group. He previously worked at Lehman Brothers and at Salomon Brothers in investment banking.

With more than 25 years of experience in the capital markets, Niedermayer has executed a broad range of equity and debt financings as well as strategic advisory assignments. He has an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hobart College. He serves as a member of the board of advisors at the Tuck School of Business and is a trustee of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum.