Doug Rieder

Mr. Douglas L. Rieder is Chairman of the Board of Sterling Seacrest Partners. Doug has over 30 years of experience in providing risk management, surety, and commercial/professional insurance solutions for construction and real estate clients.

At Sterling Seacrest Doug leads the Construction Services Practice which provides risk management, surety and insurance solutions to over 400 commercial contractors. Prior to entering the agency business Doug held several senior surety underwriting and management positions with companies including The Home Insurance Company and the Reliance Surety Company.

Previously Doug was President and Co-founder of Sterling Risk Advisors. Doug received a Master of Science degree in Finance from Georgia State University in 1991 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986.

As a thought leader in the industry Doug has authored a number of articles on insurance and surety topics and has been an active guest lecturer on such topics for the Associated Builders and Contractors, the Associated General Contractors, the Construction section of the Atlanta Bar Association, the American Subcontractors Association and Southern Polytechnic University. Through these associations he has also served on the board of the Georgia chapter of ABC and on various committees, including Management Education and Subcontractor Relations.

Doug is a member of Liberty Mutual’s national Surety Producer Advisory Board. He also recently helped organize and will serve as a board member of Craft Bank. Craft is a high touch and technologically advanced Buckhead-based business bank and is the third bank with whom Doug has been associated. Doug serves on the board of a 70-year-old employee owned general contracting firm as well and has also been invited to serve as an expert witness and consultant on several surety cases.