James Dondero is a businessman whose ingrained values in ingenuity and exceptional quality led him to become one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in the alternative investment industry to date. As a self-motivated individual, James Dondero developed the type of business mentality that enabled him to set a goal for himself and never look back.
Upon the receipt of his University of Virginia business degree (dual majors) in Accounting and Finance, Jim Dondero obtained additional accountant and analyst certifications to prepare himself for corporate entry. Nonetheless, from that point forward, James Dondero excelled within the finance industry via the fulfillment of several executive roles.
From 1985 to 1993, James Dondero was employed with American Express as a Portfolio Manager and Corporate Bond Analyst and then he serviced with Protective Life as the company’s Chief Investment Officer—a position that proved his extraordinary capability of taking a business from its point of inception to well over 2 billion dollars.
As of today, Mr. Dondero invests the majority of his time managing alternative investment platforms as an entrepreneurial financier. He utilized his years of investment expertise and experience to create both Highland Capital Management and NexPoint Advisors. Highland Capital Management was co-founded by Jim Dondero in 1993 as a means to provide clients with diversity in investment products.
Nevertheless, upon the firm’s foundational objective of doing so, it became a pioneer in the industry via its introduction of the Collateralized Loan Obligation sector of finance. Additionally, with the launch of NexPoint in 2012, it too grew of value to the finance industry with its alternative provisions of both public and private real estate investment products. Being that Mr. Dondero’s businesses have both managed to rectify and fulfill the demand of investors world-wide, James Dondero is accredited for being the driving force behind the expansion in alternative investment. See this page for more information.
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