Karl Schmidt

Karl has 40 years of market research and strategic planning experience executed across a national roster of hundreds of clients representing virtually every sector of the U.S. economy.  In 1995 he founded Emicity, a Troy, MI research consultancy that assists a national roster of clients.  Karl also served as a Board of Education Trustee for the Troy School District for 13 years. Outside of work, Karl has always had a passion for the protection and advancement of at-risk youth, volunteering as a mentor, foster parent, and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster youth in Oakland County.  For fun, Karl and his wife, Karen, are always up for international travel, camping trips across our beautiful state of Michigan, and cross-country trips to see America’s amazing National Parks. Karl holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from Oakland University.