Doug Muir

Douglas Muir is an authority in business strategy, having successfully built several multimillion-dollar enterprises from the ground up. He speaks internationally on topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and business growth.
Muir is the CEO of Muir & Associates, a private equity firm that concentrates on creating and scaling start-ups. Muir’s portfolio consists of companies in a variety of industries including the credit/finance, IT, telecommunications, insurance, and food and beverage. He is a Co-Founder of CAV Angels, an online angel investment platform for alumni of the University of Virginia, and he is also the CEO of Credit Justice Services (CJS), the 4th-largest credit restoration company in the US.
Muir is also a seasoned restaurateur; he was the first franchisee of the Wild Wings Café and was instrumental in developing the franchise contract and implementing the business plan for the Charlottesville, VA location. Since selling Wild Wings Café in 2010, Muir has opened another chain of restaurants called Bella’s, a highly praised and very successful pair of family-style Italian restaurants in Charlottesville and Richmond, VA.
Muir teaches Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia, both in the School of Engineering and in the Darden School of Business’s MBA program. As well as being a professor, he is the Assistant Director of the Business Minor Program in the School of Engineering. Muir has been published and quoted in numerous media outlets including CNN, Bloomberg Radio,Business Week and The Scotsman Guide. He was the host ofThe Doug and Eric Show on ABC, “Exposing the Hidden Truths about the Three Credit Bureaus and the Banking and Finance System”. He earned a B.S. in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and an MBA from Post University.