Donal is the Managing Partner for Portas Consulting, a management consultancy dedicated to the sports sector, with offices in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Donal has worked on 150+ sports projects in the Middle East, including with Ministries of Sport and National Olympic Committees, sports federations, leagues, investors and the private sector. He has been working with senior leaders in Saudi Arabia on their transformation of the sports sector since 2015, on strategy, policy, investments and major events. Donal holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, LLM from Harvard Law School and LLB from University of Glasgow. He has previous experience at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Goldman Sachs, Roland Berger and Yale University.