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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 learned how Gerard left college early to go pursue professional hockey career

in Europe, find out how he broke into Columbia almost five years later, why he was so behind

for finance recruiting, and how he got his first break at City and Equity Research, only to jump five months later, why he was so behind for finance recruiting and how he got his first

break at City and Equity Research, only to jump five months later to 0.72 as a research analyst.

Listen to hear why he made the jump to a startup called Hive Cell and what they're up to now.

Enjoy.

Hiar and welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.

So if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio. I know you've done a lot of

stuff, but just kind of a 30-second to two-minute spiel would be great. Sure. It's eclectic to say the least.

Left college early to go play professional hockey. I retired after five years.

Went back to school to finish my education. Came out of Columbia as a 29-year-old man,

which was a different experience to say the least, had a lot

of catching up to do on the career fund and found myself highly focused on accumulating as

many skills as I could over the coming years in order to, again, play catch up. And so I

started off in hedge fund accounting at City,

migrated over to equity research, which then landed me from the sell side,

and then I went to the buy side.

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