Mr. McGowan started managing investments portfolios for venture capital and private equity in 1999, and substantially outperformed both the benchmarks and the peer groups on both a 12 and 36 month measure. Mr. McGowan then turned his understanding of what it takes to beat the market and turned it to working directly with exponentially growing companies, and helping them finance their growth and expansion.Mr. McGowan has a breadth and depth of knowledge around debt, equity, and mezzanine strategies to efficiently and effectively pay for a businesses growth. Mr. McGowan has been directly investing in and leading fundraising campaigns for everything from seed stage companies to multi-billion dollar corporations.Mr. McGowan's skills include:M&A Due Diligence and Transaction StructuringDebt and Equity Growth ExpansionFinancial ModelingAlternative Investment StrategiesValuation and Term NegotiationsBusiness Strategy Formations an d ExecutionRisk and Return OptimizationExit Strategy Formation and Execution (i.e., Tax Mitigation)Co-founder, Chief Investment OfficerGrowth Financing & InvestmentsDirect InvestmentFinancial Due DiligenceCorporate DebtLeverage BuyoutCapital Raising ServicesGrowth Capital FinancingSeed Round through B-Round FundraiseOutsourced Portfolio ManagementInvestment SyndicationAcquisition SearchBusiness ValuationM&A Financing & Implementation

We are modern day brokers, accelerating deals for fintech startups between corporate clients and investors. We help our partners navigate success through our investor and associated network of financial institutions; powered by an AI lab. The Holt family has a history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations. With the rising need for AI throughout all aspects of our daily lives, we have decided to launch Holt Fintech Accelerator that focuses on boosting AI capabilities of Fintech businesses and expanding their international network. Check out our recent updates for our content that aims to bring executive insights, advice and tools to navigate success for their business.

Act 5 Ventures LLC provides streamlined access to capital as well as direct investment for early-stage companies. We do this by providing smart syndication leadership, bringing the most appropriate investors together to invest in specific deals that fit their investment appetite as well as their ability to bring additional value in the form of resources, connections, and fit with present and future investors.

Donald McGowan is a Capital Sourcing Expert, and leads East Coast Investor outreach for Heritage Ventures.Heritage Ventures is an Advisory Firm for small to mid-sized high tech startups. We offer four very related execution services to help start-ups and exponentially growing companies scale: Go-to-Market Strategies, Revenue Acceleration, Organizational Effectivenessand Capital Sourcing. We build or repair the Go-to-Market Strategies. We implement a repeatable and scalable revenue model. We fix the internal operations. We help you raise funds.In addition, your company will have access to our methodologies, 1000’s of contacts, advisors from publicly traded companies, the Harvard Alumni Network, the Wisconsin Alumni Network, the DePaul Alumni Network, venture capital firms and unique Silicon Valley perspectives.

Pantheon Partners is a merchant investment banking firm specializing in M&A,Corporate Finance, Complex Corporate Turnarounds, Debt and Equity financing. Our core competencies from an industry perspective are medical devices, healthcare, real estate, financial services and professional sports. As a member of the executive team, it is my responsibility to build the oversee the research, plan the sales and fundraising strategies and proactively manage investment performance and operations.

Allscripts is a $1B healthcare technology firm with operations and offices around the world. - Developed models for the assessment of new lines of business including P&L and DCF models.- Managed creation of the playbook for international operations to engage and beat the competition.- Conducted industry and merger target analysis for corporate growth strategy development. - Developed KPI metrics to proactively manage global operations of business lines and products.

An innovative asset management firm that catered to the needs of super accredited investors.- Selected the investments and guided in the management of the private and international assets.- Managed $1.5B of assets in international Hedge, Real Estate, and PE /VC strategies.- Led industry with best in class performance in alternative asset classes for rolling 3-Year Period.

Analyzed and measured performance for some of the world’s largest pension plans and endowments.- Performed global investment risk assessments on pension plans of 9 Fortune 100 clients.- Managed pension funds through the implosion of Long Term Capital and the Russian Collapse.- Amplified revenue through the creation of new services for clients by creating leverage strategies.

•Created and pitched investment cases on international and domestic companies, that used both qualitative and quantitative research.•Assisted senior analysts with research projects, including commodity market expectations and competitive analyses on potential investments•Participated in conference calls with sell-side analysts and company management to learn about new investment opportunities.•Prepared and presented quarterly earnings reports on international and emerging market portfolio holdings, listened to earnings calls, and assessed earnings sensitivity.