Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, member Edmund Burke shares his path from a non-target school in the southeast

U.S. to breaking into an investment analyst role at a $3 billion family office straight out of

undergrad through a church program.

Learn why he transitioned out of that role, how he helped add value to a legal firm for their

ultra high net worth clients, and then was able to successfully pivot to a venture capital role.

Enjoy. All right.

I'm in Burke.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoases podcast.

Patrick, thanks for having me on.

So it'd be great if you could give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah.

So I grew up in the Midwest on a small farm and attended a non-target school in the

southeast is medium-sized. Not a great business program. Didn't really want to stay in the southeast.

And so I moved up to the northeast after I did a fifth year there and landed a

analyst position at a multifamily office and transitioned into private wealth management after that.

And now I've been at a strategic venture capital firm for about a year now.

Very interesting backgrounds. Let's go all the way back to kind of your upbringing, at a strategic venture capital firm for about a year now.

Very interesting backgrounds. Let's go all the way back to kind of your upbringing.

You know, you're kind of on a farm.

Why go to a school in the southeast from the Midwest?

Yeah, so family ties from the beginning. My father, he was a day trader,

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