Don is the Founder and CEO of Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and marketing firm. Hedgeweek and/or HFM have selected Agecroft Partners 13 years in a row as the Hedge Fund Marketing Firm of the Year.
Don frequently writes white papers on trends he sees in the hedge fund industry. He has spoken at over 100 Alternative Investment conferences, been quoted in hundreds of articles relative to the hedge fund industry, has done over 100 interviews on business television and radio and has over 31,000 subscribers to his Hedge Fund Industry Insights Newsletter.
Don is also the Founder of Gaining the Edge LLC that runs the Hedge Fund Educational Webinar Series, Hedge Fund Leadership Conference and Alternative Investment Cap Intro Events. Over 7000 alternative investment professionals have participated. All profits from these events are donated to charities that benefit at risk children, which have total over $3 million donated since 2013.
Before Agecroft, Don was a founding principal of Andor Capital Management where he was a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. When he left Andor, the firm ranked as the 2nd largest hedge fund firm in the world. Before Andor, Don was Head of Institutional Sales for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (now part of Blackrock). At that time, MLIM ranked as one of the largest investment managers in the world. Previously, Don was Head of Institutional Sales and on the executive committee for NationsBank Investment Management (now Bank of America). Learn more here.