Donn Davis

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Mr. Donn Davis is the Co-Founder and serves as Chairman of the Professional Fighters League. He was a Founding Partner at Revolution LLC and Managing Partner of Revolution Growth. He also served as Board Member at Echo360. He is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Professional Fighters League and Founding Partner of Revolution. He is a proven investor, entrepreneur, and company-builder in media, digital, gaming, and sports. Together with Steve Case, he co-founded Revolution in 2005, a Washington DC-based venture capital firm with $1.5 billion under management. He served as Managing Partner of the Revolution Growth funds, investing in disruptive media, digital, gaming, and sports companies such as DraftKings, Sportradar, CustomInk, BigCommerce, and Scopely. He is co-owner of Team Liquid, the most-winning e-sports team in history and two-time ESPN e-sports Team of the Year. Previously, he served as Chairman and CEO of Exclusive Resorts, building the pioneering sharing economy company from start-up to market leader with over $1 billion of vacation home assets. He was a senior executive at America Online during the formative period of the consumer internet, including serving as the President/COO of the AOL Interactive Properties Group, where he managed 7 hyper-growth internet businesses and a 1,000-person team. He was also the youngest member of the company-wide Operating Committee when AOL was a Fortune 50 Company. At age 29, he was named Chief Counsel to the beloved Chicago Cubs Baseball Team, where he was the youngest team attorney in Major League Baseball. He started his career at Sidley & Austin in Chicago, focused on media, sports, and technology M&A and financing transactions. He graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 1985 with a BS in Finance and University of Michigan Law School in 1988.