John Donald graduated from Exeter University with an Engineering degree in 1983 and spent the next 20 years in Investment Banking both in the Far East and Europe. During that time he worked for Phillips and Drew, Jardine Fleming and ING Barings. He received the Institutional Investor award for No.1 ranking in Asian Equity Research for five consecutive years.
He left Investment Banking in 2004 and bought a Scotch Whisky company which he successfully sold on to investors in 2008. For the next 10 years, he ran his own risk consultancy advising on geopolitical and cyber risk. He joined Axis Capital as a Cyber Adviser in February 2019.
John is the author of two books. His first book “Catataxis: When more of the same is different” was published in October 2011 by Quartet Books. His second book “Bolt from the Blue: Navigating the new world of corporate crises” was published by Elliott and Thompson in 2013.
