Dennis MacDonneil

Dennis MacDonneil completed his BA in economics with a minor in German at Chico State in 1964.  Between his junior and senior year at Chico he spent a year at the University of Vienna with the IES Study Abroad program.  He finished his master’s degree in monetary economics and banking in 1968 at Southern Illinois University.  Dr. MacDonneil taught at New England College for two years followed by two years doing PhD work in monetary economics at UC Riverside.  

He spent the Summer of 1969 doing a research project at the Federal Reserve Bank’s Banking Studies Group based on concepts discussed in his Master’s Thesis that he later presented at a conference in Vancouver, Canada while he was in the PhD program at UC Riverside.  Dr. MacDonneil returned to Bank of America where he had worked at the bank’s Osaka, Japan and Taipei, Taiwan branches from 1965 to 1967.  From 1972 to 1976 he was the head of the World Banking Division’s Training and Development Group, and later he became the division’s Global Communications Officer. 

In 1979, he joined the California Division’s as a vice president and manager of Bank of America’s San Francisco Main Office Commercial Real Estate Group.  Since 1985, Dr. MacDonneil has been president and CEO of Telesis Financial and Development, Inc., in Novato, California.  In 1996 he also became vice president of finance and development for Lok Group of Companies, a hospitality development and management company, and he added even more responsibilities in 2004 when he became president and CEO of Lok Hospitality, Finance, and Acquisition Inc.