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Brendan P. Keegan is a 6-time president & chief executive officer, 23-time board director, 3-time best-selling author, World’s Most Innovative CEO award winner and the visionary leader behind bFEARLESS Ventures, an investment & advisory firm. As President & CEO, he has successfully led 6 companies through liquidity exits with an average enterprise value increase of 750%. Keegan has raised over $10 billion in capital while leading over 250,000 people globally. Today, he serves as co-owner and board director of McLaren United AS, United Autosports, Andretti Racing, Merchants Fleet, PURE Electric, Sky Meadow Country Club, ExpressIt Delivery, Central Park Tower, 111 West 56th and bFEARLESS Exotics. Additionally, Keegan serves on non-profit boards to include the RPI Athletics Council, RPI Lally Leadership Council and the Keegan Family Courage & Faith Foundation. His most recent experience was as Chairman, CEO & President of Merchants Fleet where his vision disrupted the fleet industry and transformed the company resulting in 5X top line growth from $500 million to $2.5 billion, 19X bottom line growth and 12X enterprise value growth in under 5 years. As a result, Merchants completed a strategic sale to Bain Capital and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Keegan is a 3-time Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Barnes & Noble best-selling author of Dare to DISRUPT, The FUD Factor and Unbalanced on PURPOSE. Keegan has written over 400 articles published in Harvard Business Review, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Forbes, Entrepreneur & Fast Company. He is an energetic speaker delivering keynotes for Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Wheels Up, Harvard and Private Equity firms. He also hosts the Fearless Experience Podcast & is co-host with Zak Brown, CEO McLaren Racing, on the Fast & Fearless Podcast. Keegan has received numerous awards to include Distinguished Fellow by Dartmouth College, World’s Most Innovative CEO, CEO of the Year, Visionary of the Year, Executive of the Year, Most Innovative Company by Fast Company and 6-time winner of Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies. Keegan received his bachelor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MBA from George Washington University. Keegan resides in the Greater Boston and New York City areas with his wife Dana and children Kaylie and Patrick who are making names for themselves through their own professional, academic and athletic pursuits. Keegan’s family has made charitable donations of $10 million to build the next generation of leaders through their family Courage & Faith Foundation.
bFEARLESS Ventures is an investment & advisory firm. The firm invests in passion-play companies, serves on private boards, advises blue-chip private equity firms, delivers impactful keynotes, writes for top publications, fuels mentorship to the next generation, serves on non-profit boards and travels globally making racing teams faster off the track to deliver podiums on the track.
Merchants Fleet is the fastest-growing and 4th largest fleet management company in North America. As CEO, I led the highly successful liquidity event and strategic sale at a premium valuation to Bain Capital, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Leadership Team with a 12X INVESTOR RETURN. I invested alongside Bain & ADIA taking a 5% equity position in the company, while agreeing to provide leadership continuity for 2 years.
Promoted to Chairman, CEO & President with Increased responsibility from operational CEO to Board Chairman overseeing Compensation & Talent Committee along with Audit & Risk Committee.
Responsible for growing top line 5X from $500M to $2.5B, bottom line 19X from $9M to $186M and enterprise value 12X from $125M to over $1.0B while raising $5.0B of capital and starting 8 new businesses.
United Autosports is one of the largest global motorsport companies competing in the FIA World Endurance Championships, the IMSA Sportscar Championships and is a 3-time 24 Hours of LeMans Winner, Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and WEC Champions. United is excited to grow our McLaren Racing partnership racing as McLaren United AS. United is co-owned by McLaren CEO Zak Brown, former racing driver Richard Dean, Brendan P Keegan and other global leaders & investors.
Andretti Altawkilat Extreme E is the all-electric, gender- equality, off-road racing team competing globally in the Extreme E championship. Andretti Altawkilat Extreme E is co-owned by Andretti Racing CEO Michael Andretti, Brendan P Keegan and other global leaders & investors.
bFEARLESS Exotics is a wholesale exotic and supercar dealer focused on acquiring the coolest cars on the planet and then auctioning them to dealers across the United States so passionate car enthusiasts can drive and collect iconic, high-performance and rare machines. bFEARLESS Racing is also affiliated with our exotics business and races under United Autosports, McLaren Endurance Racing and Andretti Racing. | McLaren | Lamborghini | Porsche | Ferrari | Aston Martin | Pagani | Bugatti | Rolls Royce | Bentley |