Harald McPike
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Harald McPike (born 1958) is a Bahamas-based Austrian billionaire, and a 36% owner of Starling Bank.[1]
He was born in Zürich, Switzerland in 1958.[2] He grew up in Austria, and in the 1980s, studied economics at the University of Vienna.[2]
McPike started his career as a blackjack player.[3][4] He is the founder of the Bahamas-based quantitative investment manager QuantRes.[5]
McPike has been to the North and South Poles, and wants to go into space.[6] In 2014, he paid a US$7 million deposit to Virginia company Space Adventures towards a lunar orbit for $150 million, and in 2019 after two years of litigation settled with the company.[6]
He is based in The Bahamas.[6] McPike owns the 164-feet hybrid yacht Home,[7] which is estimated to be worth $35 million.[8] He has lived aboard the yacht,[9] and listed it for sale in 2021.[10]
McPike is married to Joann McPike, the founder of Think Global School.[2] They have a son.[11]