UMD ADVISORY COUNCIL 

Donald Sazdanoff has been a market strategist and portfolio manager for the past 35 years and is President and CEO of Sovereign Asset Management, an investment advisory firm he founded in 1991. Over the years his views on macroeconomic and investment topics have been widely disseminated in both the financial and popular media. His opinions and strategy have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, CNBC, Investor’s Business Daily, and The New York Times. Mr. Sazdanoff holds a Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a Master’s degree from Iowa State University, both in Agricultural Economics and Marketing.

A proud second generation Macedonian, his grandparents immigrated to the United States in 1912-1913 from the Village of Capari, Bitola, and Skopje. He and his wife Henrietta, reside in Mansfield, Ohio and have three children, Isabelle, Alexandra, and Michael.