Brendan was born in Los Angeles California and raised in Frankfort Kentucky. He attended Wittenberg University where he played sports, was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, and graduated with a BA in political science. Immediately after college he moved to San Francisco. While modeling and acting in film and commercials, he became a series 65 licensed Senior Account Executive at a private money management firm in the Bay Area. After a year and half in Hollywood, he stopped acting, moved back to San Francisco where he is back in the business world.