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 Park Ave shares his journey from working in sales using an MBA to pivot

into a Fortune 20 FLDP program and his latest move into M&A strategy at a top consulting firm.

Learn how much he got paid at each level, as well as the various skills he developed in

each stage of his career and how they influenced his path. Enjoy. Park Ave, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you for having me today.

It should be great if you could give the listeners a little bio.

Happy too.

So my background is a little bit different than a lot of folks in the consulting world. I work in industry

out of both undergrad and B-school and then made a transition to consulting, kind of not later in

life, but just a few years after B-school. And I worked for a couple large firms, several basically all top 10 strategy firms,

some with more of a focus on strategy, some more with focus on operations,

and kind of risen to the level of associate partner.

Great.

And so in terms of just go all the way back to undergrad,

you know, you were, you know, not a finance major, a county major. And what kind of made you think,

okay, I'm going to go into industry right now. And I think you were, did you join an FLDP program,

financial leadership, I think it's, you know, financial leadership development program right out of school or what was the first step

yeah no so right out of undergrad um I was a technical a technical major and people

you know should you get a PhD or a master's or go into some advanced training

and um you know it wasn't it wasn't interesting me to me I did some

internships there and then I did like a sales internship with a with a tech company and I was like

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