Eric Craig McDonald is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of McDonald Capital Management, a registered investment advisory firm located in Lubbock, Texas. Eric founded the firm in 1990 with the basic concept of providing institutional-type advice to small investors for a fee, an emerging concept at the time. Starting with approximately $800,000 in assets, the firm now manages over $190 million in equity, fixed-income and mutual fund/ETF assets for 180+ taxable, non-taxable and institutional clients. In 2005, Eric, with partners Jeffrey Mercer, Ph.D., and Scott Hein, Ph.D., distinguished professors at Texas Tech University, formed Islay Capital Partners, LP, to provide management servic