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 at True Londoner shares his winding path from investment research to the

byside and what he wishes he had known five years ago. Stay tuned.

Thank you. he had known five years ago. Stay tuned. Great, true Londoner.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

Real quick, I'd love for you to give a little intro and background about where you come from

and you can keep it as broad or specific as you like. But just to give the listeners a little bit of

a background, it'd be great. Okay, thank you, Patrick. I started my career in Madrid, Spain,

first with an interstate in private banking, one of the leading Spanish banks.

And then I moved to portfolio management in one of the biggest Swiss banks.

And then that was in the year 2007, 2008, where Spain was a deep in crisis.

So there were no many options, and I managed to get a two-year graduate program in the Bank of Spain, hoping that things will get better after that.

When I complete the graduate program, which includes some rotations, the financial crisis

was still there, and there were no many good options in the

financial sector. But I decided to try in consulting, which is something that I recommend

for a while to get soft skills. Was that management consulting or was that just strategy? Yeah,

management. Okay. Well, this company has management consulting and also IT consulting.

But I was in the management consulting division.

Got it. Okay, great.

This company was a multinational.

It was built by the former partners for Nelson.

Great.

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