“After years of hard work and struggle, there is no feeling like seeing your first major round of funding hit your accounts. The opportunity this has provided to our team can never be explained in words, and we could never have done this without Maingate in our corner!”
— Marty C., CEO
Our origin comes from the passion of a wife to help her husband, and the result was amazing!
For years our founder Elena Sonbok McMillan watched her serial entrepreneurial husband, Michael McMillan, struggle between running his business and raising capital to support its growth. Time and time again, she would watch this same saga play out as his companies would reach a new plateau of growth or seek to buy a new company and require some type of funding to make it happen, and off Michael would go hunting for capital.
The issue was not that Michael could not find capital. The problem she saw was the impact Michael’s focus on fundraising had on both the family and the business. So rather than watch her husband continue to struggle with this, she offered to help take over the fundraising, and before she knew it, Maingate Global was born.
Today Maingate has partnerships with Family Offices, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Funds, Private Equity, Angel Groups, Venture Capital, Banks, and Ultra High Net Worth investors all over the world. These relationships are managed from our Headquarters in Knoxville, TN and our offices in Seoul, Korea. Allowing our team to provide global support to our clients where and when they need it to ensure your funding demands are met on your timeline!
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Chief Executive Officer
A Korean native, Elena came to the United States to pursue her passion for education. After earning three Master' Degrees and Acceptance into her Ph.D. program, Elena worked as a College Level professor at several Universities in the United States.
Later Elena would come to find a new passion in business leadership. After opening multiple companies, Elena would eventually come to open Maingate Global.
Today when Elena is not devoting her time to helping Maingate’s clients, she is traveling and spending time with her Husband, Michael McMillan, and their three children.