Donald Mitchell

Donald W. Mitchell is chairman and chief executive officer of Mitchell and Company, a management consulting firm established in 1977 which specializes in business strategy and financial consulting for major companies. His consulting clients are found predominately among the nation's 200 largest corporations. One instance of his firm's success is that, since 1977 Mitchell and Company's clients have increased their share values by more than $37 billion faster than the Standard and Poor's 500 Average has risen, upon implementation of the firm's recommendations. He has regularly assisted in developing new generations of best practices for large corporations and for start-ups.

In 1981, Mr. Mitchell founded Mitchell Investment Management Company, Inc., a firm specializing in acquisitions. He also serves as its president. Mr. Mitchell's clients are primarily entrepreneurs and successful executives in major corporations.

In 1989, Mr. Mitchell founded Leading Executive Organizations 100, Inc., and serves as the company's president. The company provides advanced executive training to CEOs, CFOs, division presidents, and investor relations executives through OUTSTANDING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, LEADING CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS, LEADING DIVISION PRESIDENTS 100, SHARE PRICE GROWTH 100 and TWENTY TIMES PROGRESS. Over 150 major companies participate in these groups each year.

Mr. Mitchell is coauthor of The 2000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success, due to be published in March of 1999. He has also been quoted by Business Week, Chief Executive Magazine, Dun's Business Month, Financial World, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, Money, The New York Times, The Wall Street journal, ABC News and United Press International regarding business strategy and investments. Mr. Mitchell is listed in many biographical references, including Who's Who in the World. He has published over 20 articles on these subjects as well.

Prior to founding Mitchell and Company, Mr. Mitchell was Director, Strategic Planning, for Heublein, Inc. Prior to his position at Heublein, he was a project manager at the Boston Consulting Group Inc.

Mr. Mitchell has an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. While studying for his J.D. degree, he attended Harvard Business School and pursued the field of marketing. He is a member of the bar in Massachusetts. He currently serves on the board of Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts. Mr. Mitchell is the former treasurer of the Harvard Law School Association and is a former director of the Harvard Alumni Association.