DONALD F. DONAHUE is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and its core subsidiaries, National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), The Depository Trust Company (DTC) and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC).

Mr. Donahue is a 21-year veteran of DTCC and previously, DTC.  From May 2003 until August 2006, he served as Chief Operating Officer of DTCC.  Prior to that, Mr. Donahue headed DTCC's Customer Marketing and Development Division, with responsibility for strategic planning, product development, relationship management, applications development and technology from 2000 to 2003.  At DTC, he served as Chief Information Officer from 1997 until 2000 and as head of the depository's Operations Division from 1995 to 1997.  Mr. Donahue joined DTC in 1986 and, during his early years with the company, held positions of increasing importance across a number of business areas.

Since DTCC was formed in 1999, Mr. Donahue has played a major leadership role in helping DTCC seamlessly integrate and streamline the various clearing corporations and depository functions under one organizational umbrella, without any disruption in service to customers.  He's been the architect of DTCC's Business Continuity Plan, post 9/11, which has reinforced the organization's highly-resilient, self-healing telecomm network, created multiple data center redundancy and launched its Southern Business Center, which now shares critical operating responsibility for key functions performed by DTCC's subsidiaries.

Prior to joining DTC, Mr. Donahue was President of two affiliated companies that developed and marketed credit enhancements for municipal securities from 1985 to 1986.  Before that, he worked for the Municipal Rulemaking Board, the self-regulatory organization governing the U. S. municipal securities markets, from 1977 to 1985, first as Assistant Executive Director and then as Deputy Executive Director.  Mr. Donahue began his career working for Barr Brothers & Co., Inc., a broker/dealer specializing in municipal securities, for five years.

From May 2004 to June 2006, Mr. Donahue served under an appointment by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury as Sector Coordinator and Chairman of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC) for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. FSSCC coordinates the private sector's preparation and sharing of best practices across the financial services industry to address events that could disrupt the normal business of the financial sector, such as cyber attacks, natural disasters and terrorist attacks.

Mr. Donahue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Columbia University.