Ms Schmidt holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, is a Certified Practising Accountant and a Fellow of FINSIA. She is also a Chartered Secretary and holds a Graduate Diploma in Company Secretarial Practice.

Ms Schmidt has 25 years professional experience as the company secretary of a number of ASX and AIM listed companies in a variety of industries. Ms Schmidt has also consulted to a number of listed and unlisted entities providing corporate, company secretarial and financial services. Prior to these roles, Ms Schmidt was a manager in the Corporate division of the full service stockbroking firm Paterson Ord Minnett and a member of the taxation and corporate recovery divisions of public accounting firm Arthur Andersen.