Brendan MacMillan is the Chief Investment Officer of (qp) global, a specialist in setting up and managing single-family offices. Mr. MacMillan is an accomplished investor, investing across geographies, capital structures, and sectors over nearly two decades. Amongst many sectors Mr. MacMillan has invested in, is the biotechnology sector, with a focus on both small molecule drugs and cellular and genetic therapies. Prior to founding (qp) global, he was the Chief Investment Officer of Akkad Capital Partners, LLC, a single-family office. Akkad’s primary focus was to make control investments in healthcare companies and other Industries. Mr. MacMillan helped create the office, built the investment team and assembled an advisory board to aid in deal sourcing, execution, post-acquisition management and growth of portfolio companies. Previously, Mr. MacMillan was the Chief Investment Officer of Ocean Road Advisors, a single-family office based in New York City, where he focused on asset allocation, uncorrelated strategies, private equity deals and public securities, across all sectors and geographies. Prior to Ocean Road, Mr. MacMillan was the sole Portfolio Manager of Legatum Capital, a multi-billion-dollar single-family office and investment firm based in Dubai. Mr. MacMillan was also a partner of Oceanwood Capital, a Tudor spinout that focused on even driven strategies. While at Oceanwood, Mr. MacMillan started Oceanwood’s effort to buy failed banks, as Senior Managing Director of BSE Management, a partnership with Bill Isaac, the Former FDIC Director, Jack Ryan former CEO of the RTC, former head of both the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Reserve’s supervisory group under Volcker. Out of business school, Mr. MacMillan joined Owl Creek, a distressed debt fund that spun out of Michael Price’s Mutual Series. Prior to business school Mr. MacMillan helped Peter Thiel launch Clarium Capital and worked for the predecessor investment firm, Thiel Capital. Prior investment experience includes being president of Xfiniti Capital, a US-Asia based venture capital firm and also working as an associate at Windward Capital (formerly CSFB Private Equity). Mr. MacMillan started his career at Merrill Lynch in their Mergers & Acquisition group.Brendan is a graduate of Bates College (magna cum laude) with a BA in Economics, a General Course graduate from the London School of Economics, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.