Bruce Macfarlane's career blends deep financial-services M&A experience—including running Smith Barney's financial services M&A practice and serving as Director of Financial Institutions during the RTC Oversight Board's savings-and-loan cleanup—with an unusually broad set of chairman roles spanning education outsourcing, real estate, and health tech, such as chairing ReST during PatienTech's smart-bed sleep technology financing. He also stands out for his academic path, earning a Harvard A.B. with Honors in Chemistry before his Harvard MBA, adding a scientific foundation to a career otherwise built on consulting roles at Andersen Consulting and Oliver Wyman and insurance-sector analysis at Data Resources Inc.