Alastair MacDonald
Alastair Macdonald is a private advisor, speaker, and strategist known for guiding entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders through complicated decisions in high-consequence environments. With over two decades of experience in global investment management, he draws on deep expertise in macroeconomic cycles, capital flows, and risk management to help clients thrive-regardless of where they sit in the economic tide. His unique expertise is Full-Cycle Business development.
His work is particularly relevant to professionals navigating growth, partnerships, consolidation, or exits. As a multi-industry business owner, and advisor to top-performing individuals and groups, Alastair brings real-world insight into the intersection of individual entrepreneurship and global capital flows.
Born and raised in war-torn Zimbabwe, Alastair's understanding of volatility is not simply academic, but deeply personal. From successfully owning businesses through the greatest hyperinflation in world history, to building and exiting a large multi-doctor integrative veterinary hospital, to accurately forecasting and profiting from both the global financial crisis and the US housing bubble and its implosion, his eclectic perspective and experience has served and protected clients and partners throughout multiple industries, countries and business cycles.
Today, he advises entrepreneurs, PE firms, hedge funds, family offices, and healthcare leaders across the U.S. and internationally. A TEDx speaker, he has served as advisor to state governors, legislators, and public policy think tanks on social and economic strategy.
He is the Founder and head-guide of the Sovereign Dentist Mastermind, and serves as Chairman of Chengeta Wildlife, an international counter-wildlife trafficking operation in high-conflict zones across Africa and the Amazon jungle. He's also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and proud father of two.