Donald has more than 35 years’ experience in Financial Services and Wealth management. He co-founded Solve Partners as a consultancy, resourced by industry practitioners, that specialises in the Wealth sector in early 2023.

Prior to Solve he was Group COO for Tilney Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn Partners), having joined one of the predecessor firms, Bestinvest as both COO and CFO in 2010.

He was instrumental in leading the business through significant operational change through several large scale and bolt on acquisitions (including Towry), re-platforming and supporting organic growth during private equity ownership. Before 2010 he was Managing Director, Operations for UBS Wealth Management in the UK, Head of UK Operations for Barclays Wealth, and CFO for Barclays Stockbrokers, having trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in the early 1980’s.