Donald T. McDonald is a Co-Founder, Principal & CEO of Donald Capital, LLC.  Mr. McDonald is a seasoned financial executive with over 30 years of experience on Wall Street. 

Mr. McDonald was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Consilium Global Research (CGR), an independent research firm founded in 2011 that provides traditional Wall Street research and strategic advisory for micro, small & mid cap public companies. 

Mr. McDonald began his career with Shearson Lehman Brothers in 1984 at their Wall Street office.  He advised high net worth individuals and serviced middle market institutional accounts. In 1987, he then joined Raymond James where he worked for 14 years in their Equity Capital Markets Division as an integral part of their hyper growth phase.  He worked very closely with the Syndicate Department placing IPO’s and Secondary Offerings with large institutional money managers in various parts of the country. He was also a member of the Raymond James Presidents Club and Chairman’s Council.

Mr. McDonald spent five years at Southwest Securities in Dallas, Texas on the Institutional Sales Desk and he was responsible for placing public & private investment banking deals with some of the largest institutional money managers in the country.

He then served as a Managing Director & Head of Institutional Equity Sales at Jesup & Lamont in New York City.  There he helped formulate a strategy for equity capital markets, directed the morning research calls, interviewed and hired research analysts, salespeople & sales traders. 

Mr. McDonald was then recruited by C.K. Cooper – a boutique investment bank in Irvine, CA to be a Managing Director & Head of Institutional Sales. There he worked very closely with senior management regarding strategic plans and goals for the firm. He also had oversight of the Institutional Sales Department. 

Don has developed an excellent reputation on Wall Street built over many years and has participated in more than 100 investment banking deals.

Education: St. John’s University, New York, NY.  BA

St. John’s Graduate School of Business, New York. MBA-International Business

FINRA Licenses:  Series 7, Series 63 and Series 24 General Securities Principal

Affiliations: Board Member of the National Investment Banking Association (NIBA)