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Founder & CEO of World Business Lenders (WBL), an SME financing company based in Jersey City, NJ., as well as Vice Chairman of the Hispanic Chamber Fund and the African American Chamber Fund. Mr. Naidus has successfully executed and managed business activities on five continents, including high-profile transactions in the United States, Colombia and Saudi Arabia. Doug Naidus has a track record of more than 28 years of business-building and financial industry success. In 1988, Mr. Naidus founded IPI FINANCIAL, a start-up mortgage broker in New York, which later acquired Skyscraper Mortgage in 1998 to become the largest mortgage originator in New York state. In 1999, Mr. Naidus sold IPI Skyscraper for $18 million in a private transaction. In 1999, Mr. Naidus founded MORTGAGEIT, a residential mortgage lender. Between 1999 and 2004, Mr. Naidus grew MortgageIT to become the second largest independent mortgage lender in the United States. MortgageIT conducted a successful 270 million IPO o
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- • 1,349 investors hold the Founder and CEO role in VCSift. Doug W. Naidus is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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