Rocket Fuel

graduate: Faculty

Donald L. Davis, MBA
Title:
Senior Adjunct Professor
Department:
Business
Campus:
San Francisco

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COURSES TAUGHT

FI 340
Investments
FI 344
Fundamental Analysis of Securities

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Corporate Treasury and Finance

Investment Banking

Corporate Banking

Finance Project Management

Financial Analysis and Modeling

EDUCATION

  • BA, City University of New York
  • MBA, Columbia University

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Golden Gate University, adjunct professor since 2002.

Professor Donald began his career at International Paper Company in New York, where he was the Assistant Treasurer-Corporate Finance. He then came to San Francisco, where he was a Vice President at Bank of America and a Managing Director at Bank of America Securities. At BofA he held a variety of corporate finance advisory and investment banking positions, with a focus on debt financing and asset securitization.

After leaving BofA, he served as an independent financial consultant, including long term assignments at PG&E during its bankruptcy financing and at VISA during its reorganization and IPO.

Besides teaching at Golden Gate University, he is currently a Lecturer at Santa Clara University and is an instructor in the CFA exam review program presented by the CFA Society of San Francisco.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Senior Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University, 2011