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, we followed Charles on his winding international investment banking career path,

from undergrad at McGill to working as an IB analyst in New York, to attending HEC for his

master's of science in Paris, to his

eventual move to London. We find out why he jumped when he did, and how he survived the long

hours to find the right firm where the culture was a great fit. Enjoy.

All right, Charles, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you. How are you?

I'm hanging in there.

So let's start off with just a quick summary bio so the listeners can kind of get a frame of reference here.

Sure. Just very briefly, did my undergrad in Montreal, Canada, and got my first stint in New York

in a fixed-term contract. I did capital advisory and ratings advisory for a French Universal Bank

that was back in 2011, went back to Europe after that one year because it was a fixed-term contract

and got my master

degree at a HECD in Paris, where it did sort of hit a restart button on my career and did we

start the NL Savo. Two things I knew based on my experience in New York that I wanted to focus on was,

one, did not want to work for a big universal bank. I did enjoy advisory.

I wanted to focus on advisory only and did not want to join a bulge bracket.

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