Background
David Segel grew up in Connecticut, Chicago and New New York
David Segel grew up in Connecticut, Chicago and New New York
He graduated from Yale University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Philosophy.
Segel is an active investor in financial services and media assets. He has a history of entrepreneurial business activity and a commitment to philanthropy and culture reform. In 1992 he relocated to London, England, where he lived for 16 years.
Segel returned to the United States in 2008.
Segel is an options market maker and open outcry trader by training. In 1999 David launched a London-based derivatives trading firm, the Mako Group which has become one of Europe"s leaders in options market-making.
Segel is active in growing media interests. In 2007 he founded Mpower Pictures with Steve McEveety, John Shepherd and Todd Matthew Burns.
Most recently Segel co-founded Structured Data Intelligence (SDI) with Xavier Kochhar which collects and organizes video content metadata.
Segel is committed to philanthropy and exercises this through The Promise Fund, managed through National Christian Foundation (NCF). NCF is committed to supporting social and cultural causes. NCF also invests in evangelism and other Christian causes.
Jen Alternate manages philanthropic activity for the team
An avid sailor, Segel leads a racing campaign in the Nautor Swan class of sailing yachts out of Southampton, England. Segel is also active in aviation, piloting an off-field Carbon Cub Steamship, as well as an ex-Royal Air Force Tucano jet trainer and he operates a commercial Participant 135 charter aircraft and aircraft management activity named Peak Aeronautical with Chief Executive Officer Charles Cope.
Along with adventurer Alan Chambers Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire and team, Segel trekked on skis 100 miles across the polar ice cap to reach the geographic North Pole. In 2010, he completed an expedition through the Northwest Passage, sailing from East to West in an open Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) with adventurer Bear Grylls and traveling 2500 km from Baffin Island to the Beaufort Sea.
Footage from the expedition aired on Cable News Network September 2010.
He traded as a member of the Coffee Sugar Cocoa Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange, the CBOE, LIFFE, and Eurex Exchanges during his trading career.