Donald McNamara

Biografía: Don is the Founder of Hampstead Holdings, a real estate investment company he founded in 1988. Over the last 30 years, Hampstead, in partnerships with a small group of individual and institutional investors, has invested over $1 billion of equity in real estate. The majority of these transactions were in the hospitality and senior housing sectors and included a variety of structures from simple, single asset acquisitions to complex public company transactions. His previous experience includes Bass Brothers Enterprises, Marriott Corporation and JMB Realty. Don currently serves as a Senior Advisor to TPG Real Estate Partners. He is also Managing Partner of Cityplace, a 130 acre mixed-use urban revitalization project in Dallas’ uptown. In 2005, he founded Long Cove, a 1400 acre second home community in East Texas and is the Managing Partner for Waikoloa, a 1350 acre development on the Big Island of Hawaii. Don is currently on the boards of Crow Family Holdings, A & O Hostels and Franklin Covey Company. His undergraduate degree in Architecture is from Virginia Tech and his MBA from Harvard University.