
Douglas A. “Digger” Donahue Jr., whose gift endows the Douglas A. Donahue Jr. 1973 Head Coach of Men’s and Women’s Squash, is the former Managing Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., America’s oldest and largest private bank, which he joined in 1976. For much of his early career he managed the growth of the firm’s global securities processing business, an activity in which his firm continues to be an industry leader.
Donahue continues as a general partner of BBH and serves on a number of partnership committees as well as corporate boards associated with the firm’s Capital Partners private equity investments. He is a past Trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, former Treasurer and Executive Committee member of the Commercial Club of Boston and a recipient of the United Way Tocqueville award for philanthropic leadership.
Donahue served two terms as a member of the Dartmouth Athletics Advisory Board and is currently active on the Alumni Awards Committee. He is a member of Dartmouth’s President’s Leadership Council and in 2014 he became a Dartmouth Alumni Award recipient. At Dartmouth, he majored in history and was captain of the squash team. As President of Psi Upsilon he was elected a member of the Fraternity Governing Board and he currently serves as a trustee of the Zeta Association of Psi U. Donahue earned his MBA from Harvard in 1976.