Management Team

C. DOUGLAS WALKER President

C. Douglas Walker, President, directs investment policy and strategy for individual and institutional portfolios. Prior to founding Security Capital Management, Mr. Walker was Senior Vice President in the Washington, D.C. office of Fiduciary Trust Company, International, Inc. for more than six years. Previously he was Director of Investment Services for Patriot National Bank and Vice President and Portfolio Manager for First Union National Bank (now Wachovia Corporation). Mr. Walker obtained first-hand international experience at the International Monetary Fund where he served as Financial Economist for more than eight years and advised on its $1.2 billion Staff Retirement Plan.

Mr. Walker began his career as a trust investment officer for Bank of North Carolina (now Bank of America) and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1973 to accept the appointment as financial analyst to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In 1988 and 1989 he assisted in founding two community banks in northern Virginia.

His professional associations include the Washington Association of Money Managers, the Greater Washington Society of CPAs, and the National Economists Club. Mr. Walker received a B.A. degree from Washington and Lee University and holds a masters degree from Georgetown University's Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Walker lectures for the Investment Management Institute and was moderator of its 15th Annual Global Investment Portfolio Management Conference in Toronto, Canada. His investment advice has been published in Medical Economics and in the Consumer's Guide, "Where to Invest Your Money Now."