Looking Glass Investments Adds Brad Darnell as
Chief Technology Officer
Milwaukee, WI, February 11, 2016 – Looking Glass Investments (LGI), a fixed-income alternative investment firm focused on marketplace lending, is pleased to announce that Brad Darnell will join the firm as Chief Technology Officer on a full-time basis as of February 22.
Darnell has served as LGI’s Chief Technology Officer on an outside contractor basis since soon after the company was founded in 2012. As full-time CTO, Darnell will continue to oversee ongoing development of LGI’s custom-designed investment platform, management of data, and technical support for the three Ph.D. economists who comprise LGI’s Predictive Analytics Team.
“We welcome Brad in this expanded role as we continue to experience significant growth,” said Matthew O’Malley, President and Chief Operating Officer of LGI. “Brad elegantly integrates our innovative statistical and mathematical methods with our custom software, and has been doing so for years. He has an exceptional ability to support our lending strategy and I could not be more pleased with his decision to join LGI full time.”
Darnell most recently was an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Consultant with a leading software and technology development firm with offices in Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, and Madison, WI. Previously, he was the Manager of Voice and Data Systems at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, WI.
He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
About Looking Glass
Looking Glass Investments (www.lgiresearch.com) manages a series of proprietary fixed-income alternative investment strategies for accredited investors and institutions. Since 2007, members of the LGI General Partnership have been investing in marketplace lending, with the firm’s investment vehicles first launched in 2012. LGI seeks to generate consistent income with low volatility. The firm combines innovative statistical and mathematical analysis with independent note qualification and acquisition systems to create an effective investment process.
