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, we follow a member Prop's Head on his non-traditional path working in emerging

markets and various startups to working as a strategy consultant before his MBA.

Learn about a key step he took before going to business school

in order to be able to break into a top hedge fund post-MBA, as well as how he was able to get

enough internships on his CV to overcome his non-traditional work experience. Enjoy.

Okay, Propshead. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Good afternoon.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio and we'll go from there.

Sure. By way of background, I came out of what Wall Street Oasis might refer to as a Target school

in kind of a non-finance background, after which I went and worked in emerging markets for

a number of different years.

So you could say I had kind of a non-traditional path to the buy side involving working

in startups in an emerging market, doing a lot of work in frontier markets,

and then returning back to the states where I attended a finance program at a business school.

Great. And then after business school, what happened there? And so did you go straight into

byside from business school or what happened in fact i even got started on the

by side before business school even kicked off because i had been told and i'm going to share this

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