Donald Rober Bessler

Mr. Donald R.
Bessler, CPA, is a Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager at Windward Capital Management Co. Mr. Bessler was previously employed at First American Capital Management where he was a Senior Portfolio Manager/Senior Vice President.
Prior to First American Capital Management, he was a Principal and the Director of Research at Roxbury Capital Management LLC, a $14 billion asset management firm in Los Angeles.
As Director of Research and voting member of the Investment Committee, he supervised a team of six Equity Research Analysts in addition to personally managing more than $1 billion in client assets.
He was also responsible for managing the Roxbury Special Situations Portfolio and the Special Situations Hedge Fund.
He began his career as a Certified Public Accountant and attained the level of Audit Manager with the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.
During the six years he worked in New York, he was responsible for the corporate audits of such firms as Chase Manhattan Bank, Eastman Kodak, and Oppenheimer & Co. He has managed accounts for Catholic Healthcare West in San Francisco, Eli Lilly Co., Guidant Corp., Texas A&M University, and the University of South Florida.
Mr. Bessler graduated summa cum laude from Lehigh University with a BS in Finance, a BS in Accounting, and a BA in Psychology.