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, Kevin shares his rare path of breaking into private equity at a lower middle

market fund right after his MBA at Emory, after stints in consulting and investment banking.

Listen to hear why he took a large pay cut, why he didn't want to go

back to being an advisor, and how he eventually found himself running investments for a large family

office. Enjoy.

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

Thank you.

It'd be great here.

Thanks.

Yeah, so it'd be great to if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure.

Group, California, went to school at George Washington, both for my undergrad and a master's in information security.

Did a brief state consulting in New York for doing four years in investment banking at a regional bank,

went back to school and did an MBA at Emory University.

And after that, I spent six years or so in private equity across two different

lower middle market private equity firms. And for the last three, almost four years now,

I've been working out of family office. Very cool. So let's start all the way back,

well, kind of when I was in school too. So we're both the same age.

Just past the big four, we're both past 40 at this point.

So tell me a little bit about just an undergrad.

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