Doug Magic is a seasoned business development leader with over a decade of experience partnering with financial advisors to solve complex investment needs across mutual funds, ETFs, separate accounts, closed-end funds and alternatives. As Director of Business Development at GQG Partners, he blends relationship-driven consultative sales with regional coverage experience that includes raising significant assets and coordinating internal product specialists. His career track record includes leadership roles at DWS, Ivy Investments and Dreyfus where he consistently exceeded sales goals and led major broker/dealer and wirehouse initiatives. Based in California, Doug pairs deep distribution expertise with a hands-on mindset—he also contributes to open-source software projects on GitHub, bringing front-end and UI improvements to popular tools like Luckysheet, an Excel-like web spreadsheet. Practical, results-oriented and curious, he combines traditional investment distribution acumen with unexpected technical involvement that helps bridge adviser needs and modern tools.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Recreation, BS Recreation at Arizona State University
Sports Management, Sports Management at University of Dayton
Luckysheet is an online spreadsheet like excel that is powerful, simple to configure, and completely open source.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:70 commits, 35 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Doug made numerous contributions to the Luckysheet project, primarily focusing on front-end and UI enhancements. They implemented features like multi-select for dropdown lists, refactored the toolbar configuration, and addressed bugs related to freezing panes and hyperlink behavior. The changes include modifications to core files across various modules like data verification, server, and UI components to improve the user experience and functionality.
Contributions:16 PRs, 25 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 6 months
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Doug Magic - Director, Business Development at GQG Partners