Brady Schmidt joined National Business Brokers, Inc. in 1991 and has been the company’s President and CEO since 2004. NBB’s sales volume, gross revenue and geographic reach have consistently and significantly surged under Brady’s leadership, making it the largest new car dealership brokerage firm in the country, transacting more than 4,500 businesses sold of which more than 950 of those being New Car Dealerships for more than $15B in value for dealership sales.
Brady is one of the pre-eminent experts in the United States in the retail automotive industry with 33 years of experience personally handling more than 450 sales, mergers and acquisitions of new franchised dealerships. Additionally, Brady is one of three California New Car Dealers appointed to the New Motor Vehicle Board. He was personally appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022.
Brady is also a new car dealer. He is a partner in four dealerships and Dealer Principal in three of those dealerships. The stores include a Ford dealership in Southern California, two Hyundai dealerships in Oahu, Hawaii, and a CDJR dealership in Oahu, Hawaii. Brady serves on the Board of Hyundai Hope on Wheels that gives over $25M in pediatric cancer research grants each year, is on Regional Dealer Council for Hyundai, and on the Board of Petra-Cares a Houston based non-profit that works with young people aging out of the Foster Care System to train them as certified entry level lube technicians and places them in jobs at new car dealerships.
A licensed real estate agent in California, Brady holds real estate broker licenses in Washington and Florida, as well. He earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing from Biola University.
Brady has been married for 29 years to his wife, Traci. They have a daughter, Kendall, and three sons, Cameron, Carson, and Preston. The Schmidt’s reside in Irvine, California.
