He was born in Ireland and graduated from University College Dublin with an honours degree in Commerce and French. Breandan started his career at Goldman Sachs and subsequently joined Morgan Stanley, where he held various leadership roles in their London and New York offices. In his most recent role as Executive Director, he led the Global Margin and Risk Support Department, which provided analysis and reporting on Morgan Stanley’s industry-leading Prime Brokerage business to the Risk Management, Operations, and Compliance functions. Moving from the private sector in 2016 to pursue further studies, Breandan graduated from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service with an Executive Masters in Public Administration and now teaches at NYU on disability, public policy and leadership as an Adjunct Assistant Professor.