Dr. Macdonald is a Managing Partner of Radiant Capital, a Northeast Asia focused private equity investment management group targeting complex, value-driven opportunities in the region. 

 

At Radiant, Dr. Macdonald co-led the historic acquisition of Nan Ho Industrial, a major south Taiwan real estate and asset holding company with more than 100 years of history, including sourcing, negotiation and structuring of the complex cross-border share purchase: the largest US private equity investment ever in south Taiwan. Since 2014 Dr. Macdonald acts as General Manager and Board Director at Nan Ho Industrial and its subsidiaries.

 

Previously Dr. Macdonald was a Senior Partner of a US$100MM venture capital group focused on Asia tourism & media sectors, where he was responsible for fund formation, deal structuring and oversight of investments and operations in Greater China, Hong Kong and Macau.

 

Dr. Macdonald was previously a core member of the cross-border M&A team at Morgan Stanley Japan based in Tokyo, handling international M&A assignments encompassing Taiwan, China, USA, Europe and Latin America with average deal size of US$1 billion. 

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In Taiwan, Dr. Macdonald advised on the Nissan-Yulon Motors cross-border share swap, the largest industrial restructuring involving Japan, Taiwan and mainland China JVs.  In the tech sector, Dr. Macdonald advised Toshiba on the sale of its DRAM assets to Micron in the US, and advised NEC on restructuring of subsidiaries in the semiconductor capital equipment sector.

 

Dr. Macdonald was a regular guest speaker on emerging market investments at Harvard Business School and has been featured in a Harvard Business School case study. Dr. Macdonald was previously a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he lectured on Infrastructure Project Finance in Mandarin Chinese, and was a lecturer on Europe-Asia Corporate Finance at Paristech (ENSTA) in France.  He started his career as an engineer designing infrastructure projects (hydropower dams) in South-East Asia at SNC Lavalin.

 

Dr. Macdonald is fluent in English, Japanese, Mandarin and Taiwanese, and semi-fluent in Emirati Arabic.  He received PhD in Engineering (Infrastructure Finance) at University of Tokyo (2000), Masters in Engineering Management at Stanford University (1997), and graduated with honors (Civil Engineering) at UBC (1995).