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, PJ shares his winding path from a J.P. Morgan internship during his time at

Princeton to working on two desks during his five years at Morgan Stanley, to making a pivot

to equities at the hedge fund where he stayed for seven years.

Listen to hear how he started it all over again and where he is now. Enjoy.

All right, PJ, 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 summary of your bio.

Sure. I've been in the business now for quite some time. I graduated Princeton in 2008,

studied operations research, financial engineering. So something that I thought would be

good vocational training for

finance. I spent five years at MS in their investment management business focused on fixed income.

I did my CFA as I decided I wanted to get into equities. I worked seven years at a long-oriented but long

short, then driven or value with the

Catalyst hedge fund.

I learned a lot there.

But at the end of my tenure, this was really coming up to COVID, wanted to get some experience

in private markets.

So I made a pretty big pivot into commercial real estate private equity.

Drank from the fire hose did that for a year. Realized I really missed the public market game.

I decided though that take a sort of an in-between step and became the CFO of a SPAC.

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