Robert G O'Donnell

Robert G. O’Donnell retired in 2011 from his position as a Senior Vice President and Director of Capital Research and Management Company. Capital Research is the investment advisor to the American Funds and is part of the Capital Group Companies. At that firm, he was a portfolio manager in several mutual funds and served as Principal Executive Officer of The American Balanced Fund, a $50 billion fund. O’Donnell graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley in 1965 and obtained his M.B.A. there in 1966. He is a CPA and a CFA. Prior to joining Capital in 1972, he served in the U.S. Army and was a senior accountant at Arthur Andersen. He has been recognized for his philanthropic work, most notably with the Chancellor’s Award at UC Berkeley in 2008 and with the Business Leader of the Year for 2011 Award at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. For the past ten years, he has been a Lecturer at the Haas School where he teaches the Investment Strategies and Styles course. He currently serves on the boards of the San Francisco Symphony, Sequoia Hospital Foundation, Summit Public Schools, the Library Advisory Board at Berkeley and the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He chaired the UC Berkeley Foundation from 2005 to 2007 and is an Emeritus board member. He is President of The O’Donnell Foundation, a private foundation that supports educational opportunity.