Biography
For more than 40 years Andrew J. Donohue (Buddy Donohue) been engaged in the investment management industry in both senior government and private sector roles, most recently as an Independent Director of certain BNY Mellon Funds, as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and as Chair of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum. Prior to that he was Chief of Staff to former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) Chair Mary Jo White from 2015-2017, Director of the SEC’s Investment Management Division from 2006-2010, Investment Company General Counsel of Goldman Sachs from 2012 to 2015, Global General Counsel of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers from 2003-2006, and Executive Vice President & General Counsel of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. from 1991-2001. Buddy is also presently a member of the Board of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum since 2018 and Chair since January 1, 2023.
During his career Buddy has served as an officer of investment companies, broker-dealers, investment advisers and commodity trading advisors, and as a director of open-end investment companies, closed-end investment companies and a business development company, Cayman based investment funds and Dublin and Luxembourg based UCITS.
While he was the Director of the Investment Management Division and Chief of Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, he spoke on numerous occasions regarding a variety of topics as well as testifying several times before Congress. Buddy also served as the Chair of the Investment Company and Investment Adviser Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and he continues to serve as a Co-Chair of the Task Force on Fund Director’s Guidebook, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee of the American Bar Association.