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, Harrison shares why he turned down a full ride to Stanford to play soccer at

Indiana University, how he broke into investment banking at J.P. Morgan and why he transitioned

to a smaller middle market firm in Cleveland.

Learn how he quickly positioned himself for one of the few coveted private equity spots in Cleveland.

Now he's already been promoted early twice in his young career. Enjoy.

All right, Harrison, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Oh, yeah, thanks for having me.

So it would be awesome if you could just give a quick summary bio for the listeners.

For sure. So Harrison, I'm from Indiana originally. I went to Indiana University and studied finance accounting and

international business there. Between my junior and senior year, I did an internship and investment

banking with J.P. Morgan in Chicago. I started there full time as an investment banking analyst

as well. And then lateral to key bank capital markets in Cleveland for some personal

reasons, which I'm sure we'll talk about a little bit more later. So finish my investment

banking analyst ship there. And then after about another year, I joined Riverside as a private equity associate, and I've been there ever since

coming up on five years. First couple of years as an associate, then senior associate and most

recently vice president on our investing team. Congrats on all the promotions. It's not easy.

So let's start all the way back just at Indiana.

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