William Schmid

Bill is a native New Yorker with an undergraduate BS degree in Accountancy and a Master’s degree in Finance from Hofstra University. Upon graduating from university, Bill started his career in investment banking by joining Morgan Guaranty Trust Company's training program in New York. He moved to Barclay's Bank PLC in 1979 as an energy analyst, who ultimately then brought him to Houston in 1980. In 1982, Bill joined the energy group at Societe Generale-Houston (SG), the 2nd largest French bank and then 9th largest international bank. During his investment banking career at SG, his managing director client responsibilities spanned numerous roles including analyst, commercial energy officer and energy investment banker and project advisor to some of the world’s largest energy clients including Conoco, Petrobras, PDVSA, Total, Hunt Oil, Mobil and BP.

In 1997, Bill moved overseas to Paris into a head office managerial and business development role building a global energy and infrastructure project finance business from the ground up that ultimately became the largest and most recognized global project finance team in the world with numerous awards and consistent rankings as the #1 project finance business in the business. This group remains one of the most recognized product groups having advised and arranged debt and equity capital for some of the largest multi-billion dollar energy pipeline, oil and gas field development and LNG import and later export projects in the world.

In 2003, Bill moved back from Europe to take on the management oversight of SG's North American corporate investment banking business (Canada/US/South America). With more than 500 employees in the North American Region and +$35 billion in assets, his responsibilities included the development and overall supervision of the region's overall activities with groups that included regulatory, human resource and commercial businesses which included energy, project finance, mining and minerals, leverage finance, large corporate, infrastructure, loan syndicate and its equity and debt capital markets activities. While North American regional head, Bill sat on the board of the North American activities with reporting ties to senior management in Paris. He helped successfully guide the bank's North American region through the 2008 financial crisis and his supervision of the IT group's new systems development helped allow the bank to timely and accurately report to the Federal Reserve under the post-financial crisis environment that the industry still lives in today. In December 2013, after a +30 year's successful international career at SG, Bill retired to Houston with his Texas-raised family.

Bill joined Fila-Mar Energy Services and PropDispatch as CFO in 2014. Today he provides financial and strategic direction on both Fila-Mar’s energy logistics and PropDispatch.