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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, Howie shares his story as an immigrant moving to the United States when he was

just 15 years old. Learn how he picked up English so fast, how he did so well in high school,

how he became the first member of his family to attend college,

how a back office internship at a bank opened his eyes to investment banking,

and how he ended up landing that first investment banking internship.

We hear about how he converted the internship into a full-time offer

and his risky approach that paid off during private equity recruiting.

Enjoy.

Hey, no, my... during private equity recruiting. Enjoy. Okay, Howie, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So it would be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summer of your bio.

Yeah, of course, happy to.

So I was born raised in Southeast Asia, immigrated to the States, my family when I was in high school.

Went to college in the Rocky Mountain area and did a variety of different internships in college.

I like to say that accidentally discovered investment banking and then decided that it would be a good job at least out of college. So after that, successfully landed investment banking and then they said that it would be a good job at least out of college

so after that successfully landed investment banking an investment banking job and then spend more

than a year there and now transitioning to a P.E. Associate role at the upper middle market firm.

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