Harald McPike (born 1958) is a Bahamas-based Austrian billionaire, and a 36% owner of

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. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland in 1958. He grew up in Austria, and in the 1980s, studied economics at the

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. McPike is the founder of the Bahamas-based quantitative investment manager QuantRes. He is married to

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, the founder of

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. He is based in The Bahamas. McPike has been to the North and South Poles, and wants to go into space. In 2014, he paid a US$7 million deposit to Virginia company

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towards a lunar orbit for $150 million, and in 2019 after two years of litigation settled with the company.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McPike, Harald Living people Austrian billionaires 1958 births Businesspeople from Zürich University of Vienna alumni