Charles Nabit – Investment Executive and Community Leader

An experienced business executive with a background in healthcare, real estate, and law, Charles Nabit is the managing partner at Westport Group and the chairman and CEO at Southport Financial, LLC. As managing partner at Westport, a position he has held since 1983, he oversees the management of various investment interests, primarily in marketable securities, business, and real estate, for the partnership. Charles Nabit has led Southport Financial since 1999, during which time he has played a major role in shaping its e-commerce business strategy, including electronic document creation, storage, and retrieval for healthcare and financial services clients.

Charles Nabit also spent more than three decades as the chairman and CEO of Developmental Disability Management Services (DDMS), LLC. He maintained all fiscal and operational responsibilities for the management company that provided a range of services to adults with developmental disabilities. Prior to assuming his role as managing partner at Westport in 1983, Charles Nabit spent the first three years of his career in associate positions at Venable, Baetjer and Howard in Baltimore, Maryland. He worked in both the real estate and corporate departments and was responsible for matters such as commercial and multi-family property tax appeals, condominium establishment and documentation, and industrial development bond financing.

In addition to his professional endeavors, Charles Nabit is passionate about philanthropy and serves as the president of The Nabit Foundation, Inc. He created the private family foundation in 1992 and oversees its giving campaign. In addition, he holds board positions with community organizations such as the Walters Art Museum, the B&O Railway Museum, and the BIC Educational Foundation, among others.

Complementing his diverse business experience, Charles Nabit holds a juris doctor from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law (now William & Mary Law School) at the College of William & Mary, where he was associate editor of the William & Mary Law Review and received the Order of the Coif. He also earned the American Jurisprudence Book Awards in Torts, Constitutional Law, Secured Transactions, and Administrative Law.