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, member Vincent Gambini shares his very unlikely path from a Big Four

consulting position to a lucrative private equity fund, how he positioned himself at the

big four in order to be more attractive to PE firms,

a key piece of advice to his younger self and how he got his big break. Enjoy.

Yeah, happy to be out. Vincent Gambini, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, happy to be out on. Thanks for having, Patrick.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick overview of your background.

Yeah, of course. So undergraduate degree in economics from Georgetown University didn't have an all-too-stellar GPA,

probably slightly above a three-hour little around there.

Originally went out of school to Big Four consulting along the lines of like a traditional consulting group, so strategy and operations, not necessarily a deals group,

really wanted exposure to M&A and to the world private equity, and was able to make the leap from the kind of strategy and ops consulting to a mid-market private equity firm in New York

that specialized in technology investments and was there for about three years before going to

business school where I'm now at Chicago Booth.

Great. So thanks for that. I think your background is actually really a little bit shocking

in terms of, I'm being honest. So we see people coming on this pod and just in the community

themselves not being able to break in our private equity from top investment banks, yet you

were able to break in from what's considered even a harder place, which is like a

big four accounting firm.

Now, obviously, you weren't doing accounting work, correct?

When you were at the big four, you somehow managed to get into a group or do certain work

that was more attractive to be?

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