Don Puglisi is the MBNA America Professor of Business Emeritus at the University of Delaware and Managing Director of Puglisi & Associates. He received a B.A. with high honors, majoring in accounting, and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from Michigan State University and holds a D.B.A., with a major in finance and minors in accounting and quantitative business analysis, from Indiana University. His primary teaching responsibilities at the University of Delaware, where he served on the faculty for thirty years starting in 1971, were corporate finance, securities analysis and portfolio management, the pricing and uses of derivative instruments, and the management of financial institutions. He has published extensively in those areas. Don was the recipient of Excellence in Teaching Awards on six separate occasions while at the University of Delaware. He has also been awarded the University of Delaware’s Medal of Distinction and an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree. Don was appointed to the University of Delaware’s Board of Trustees in 2014.
Don has served as a University of Delaware Public Service Fellow with the Office of the Treasurer for the State of Delaware and as a Visiting Research Scholar with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, where he was the recipient of two Outstanding Service Awards.
Don founded Puglisi & Associates in 1973. His company provides financial and administrative services to a variety of Delaware-based holding companies, many of which are subsidiaries of major U.S. and foreign based corporations. Don has over 25 years experience with a variety of forms of structured financings and serves as a director or trustee of a large number of special purpose finance vehicles, some of whose securities have been or are traded on major securities markets in the United States.
In July 1997, Don was nominated by Delaware’s Governor and confirmed by the Delaware Senate to be a Commissioner on the State’s Public Service Commission, the five-member group that is authorized by the Delaware General Assembly to regulate investor-owned utilities providing services for public use within the State of Delaware. He stepped down from the Public Service Commission in December 2004. In March 2000, then-Governor Thomas R. Carper presented Don the State of Delaware Order of the First State Award.
Don has been an expert witness in a number of cases involving valuation and other financial matters that have been adjudicated before a variety of state and federal courts, including Delaware's Chancery Court, the U.S. Tax Court, federal District Courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court by original jurisdiction. His clients have included the United States Department of Justice Tax Division and Internal Revenue Service as well as individuals and corporations in the private sector.
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