Donald Wagoner

DONALD WAGONER was a Captain in the US Army, served in California, Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and commanded a Signal Company in Korea. He was a CPA and worked for Peat Marwick (now KPMG) in New York and San Francisco, and for twenty years worked in financial management for Molex, an electronics manufacturing company, in Singapore, London and Munich and as the General Manager of its Thailand operations. Since returning to the US, he has volunteered on the President’s Council of Colonial Williamsburg and the Board of the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, and he has worked over 5,000 hours as a volunteer gardener in Central Park. Donald has traveled extensively, visited the seven continents (in 1992 traveled with WWF on its first trip to Antarctica), and for over thirty years has been returning to South Africa and most years to India or Nepal to search for and photograph big cats. Donald graduated from Wake Forest University with a BA in Economics, earned a MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill, and, more recently completed a certificate in Urban Horticulture from Cornell.