Donald Mackenzie is a British businessman, the co-founder and Honorary Co-Chair of CVC Capital Partners (CVC), one of the world's leading private equity and investment advisory firms. His career is rooted in financial discipline: he is a Chartered Accountant and holds an LLB degree from the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Mackenzie joined Citicorp Venture Capital in 1988 and helped lead the European venture capital effort. His career is defined by his deep involvement in private equity, where he leveraged his legal and accounting expertise to structure complex deals and develop a specialization in sports and high-profile industrial assets.

Donald Mackenzie was a senior investment professional at Citicorp Venture Capital who, in 1993, negotiated a spinoff from Citibank with his colleagues to form the independent private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners. His strategic vision transformed CVC into a multi-asset class manager with approximately €200 billion of assets under management (AUM), and it successfully executed its IPO on Euronext Amsterdam in April 2024.

Mackenzie has been instrumental in making CVC one of the world's most active private equity investors in sports-related businesses, holding major stakes in Formula One (former), Spanish football league La Liga, and the Six Nations Rugby championship. He transitioned to Honorary Co-Chair in 2024, stepping back from full-time management after the IPO but retaining a significant 5.5 percent stake in the company. He remains a key figure in guiding the firm's focus on long-term value creation and sports assets, notably through the Podium Analytics foundation.

Donald Mackenzie's social impact is structural, stemming from CVC's role in capitalizing and professionalizing major global sporting organizations. His personal focus is on injury prevention in sport through the support of the Podium Analytics foundation.

His structural contribution is tied to CVC's role as a major financial institution, managing vast institutional capital and employing hundreds of thousands of people in its portfolio companies worldwide.

Donald Mackenzie maintains the highly professional, disciplined style of a top-tier private equity founder. His attire is consistently bespoke, favoring tailored suits. His aesthetic reflects the stability and institutional credibility of his firm.

Residing in the U.K., his luxury is the immense security and financial power derived from his multi-billion dollar fortune. His life is defined by his commitment to financial discipline, strategic deal-making, and his profound passion for the commercial growth of global sports.