Sean McDonald is a marketing lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He currently teaches product marketing and product management classes in the MBA program.

McDonald is founder and CEO of 8 Days LLC, an advisory firm focused on revenue optimization across sales, marketing, and customer experience. His prior experience spans 35 years, including seven years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy leading logistics and 12 years as marketing executive at Dell. He also spent time as an entrepreneur with Ant’s Eye View and most recently as a partner with PwC, leading teams of designers and strategists designing experiences to drive growth and transformations for products.

McDonald earned a BBA degree in finance and international business and an MBA with an entrepreneurship focus from Texas McCombs.