Duncan MacMillan is an American mathematician, philanthropist, and businessman known for being one of the four founders of

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MacMillan is not to be confused with Whitney Duncan MacMillan, who inherited his billions in agribusiness.

Early life and education

MacMillan served four years in the

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after which he went to college.INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY: Attributions - Nancy S. and Duncan L. MacMillan, Leading by Example
2003 - issue one In 1966, MacMillan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. In 1967, he began his career working at Bankers Trust.The Cancer Institute of New Jersey: Board of Directors - Duncan L. MacMillan"
retrieved March 30, 2013

Career

MacMillan worked at the investment bank

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with Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Secunda and Charles Zegar. After Bloomberg - who was Salomon's former head of equity trading and sales and then head of computer systems and data - was fired when he opposed the takeover of the company by

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, a metals trading company, he invited Zegar, Secunda, and Macmillan to start up their own financial data company. They accepted and together they founded Innovative Market Systems, with Bloomberg investing $300,000, the majority of seed capital. Secunda, who was a mathematician, was responsible for analytics; MacMillan was the expert in customer needs; and Zegar created the software. In 1982, they got their first customer, Merrill Lynch who ordered 20 data terminals and invested $30 million in the company (receiving a 30 percent ownership interest). The company grew rapidly thereafter and presently has $7.6B in sales and over 15,000 employees. Bloomberg owns 88% of the company and the three other partners 4% each (In 2008, Bloomberg purchased back Merrill Lynch's original 30% share).

Philanthropy

MacMillan is a Member of the Dean's Advisory Committee; he is a member of the Foundation of The Medical Center at Princeton. He has endowed a Professorship of Genetics at Rutgers University and a Professorship in Theoretical Computer Science at The

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. He is also a generous supporter of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey where he serves on the board of directors. His wife Nancy is a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study and the

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. MacMillan and his wife are signatories of

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.the Giving Pledge: "Duncan and Nancy MacMillan"
retrieved March 30, 2013

Personal life

MacMillan is married to Nancy MacMillan whom he met while working at Bankers Trust. Nancy has a B.A. in economics and mathematics from

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, a M.A. in economics from Hunter College, and a

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in finance from

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. They have two children: Kevin and Alissa.

References

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