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 is the founder of the Bahamas-based quantitative investment manager QuantRes.[3]

He is based in The Bahamas.[4]

McPike has been to the North and South Poles, and wants to go into space.[4] 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.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Makortoff, Kalyeena (19 June 2022). "The Covid loans, the billionaire … and Starling, the very fast-growing bank". The Observer. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 Weeks, Ryan (9 March 2020). "Who is Harald McPike, the secretive investor behind Starling Bank?". Financial News. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Taylor, Charlie (13 February 2019). "Starling Bank raises £75m to fund international expansion". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 Weiner, Rachel; Davenport, Christian (26 May 2019). "He wanted to fly around the moon. He ended up in court instead". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
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