Donald Law

Donald Law is a seasoned professional services executive with a market validated track record as an advisor to senior management on issues related to senior level executive search, board recruiting, management succession and corporate governance. Prior to Venerable Partners, Donald Law served as a Managing Director in the Chicago office of Boyden Global Executive Search, with offices in more than 40 countries around the world. He established his reputation in the executive search industry at Russell Reynolds Associates where he first served as an Associate and then as Executive Director and co-leader of one of the most successful global technology search practices in the history of that firm. He has successfully managed the execution of numerous C-level and Board of Director assignments within the information technology sector. In doing so, Donald Law has worked closely with the senior management teams from many of the world’s most admired public and privately held companies in addition to many of the country’s most promising venture backed early stage technology companies. 

Prior to executive search, the majority of Donald Law’s career was spent with the IBM Corporation. At IBM, he worked in the company’s advanced technology organization, developing an astute understanding of complex data and telephony systems at IBM’s development facility in the heart of Silicon Valley. In creating one of the first Internet based solutions to be registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Mr. Law has been recognized for his insights into how corporations can leverage emerging technologies with their respective corporate strategies. 

Donald Law was recently featured in a cover story on Internet enabled marketing solutions in the Harvard Business School Bulletin with WPP Group’s Chairman & CEO, Sir Martin Sorrell and Harvard Business School Professor Alvin Silk. He was also responsible for leading one of the most significant analytical studies of the Internet Economy which has been documented in a number of leading international publications including Business Week, The Sunday Telegraph, Tendances, The Daily Telegraph, El Pais, among many others.