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, MedTech Monkey shares how he broke into an exciting high-growth

M&A corporate development position at a Fortune 500 company coming from an accounting background

at a non-target university. How much he's getting paid now and a key piece of advice to our listeners.

Enjoy.

Yeah, I'm glad to be here.

So it'd be great if you could just give the listeners a quick little summary of your background.

Sure, so I went to a non-target school.

Didn't know I wanted to do investment banking or M&A.

I didn't really know what it was.

I was getting my bachelor's master's and master's in accounting.

And I started my career at a regional public accounting firm doing audit.

You know, did the whole CTA track and lived real quick.

It wasn't for me.

And actually, when I came back from one of my internships, I had a classmate that

had interned at Goldman, and their investment banking division, you know, talking to him and

comparing what we did on our internships, has sounded a lot more interesting than mine.

So that's kind of what opened my eyes at M&A. So I started off my career in audit.

I did that for like a year, year and a half. And then I transitioned to the company's advisor department.

So I was doing financial modeling, valuation, and financial due diligence.

So quality earnings for private equity-backed deals.

That really got my exposure in the M&A world.

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