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 R-E-P-E shares his incredible story from bouncing between London and the U.S.

for his education to landing at a bulge bracket investment bank on the equity derivatives sales

desk.

Learn how he survived massive cuts during 2008,

even when his bosses were trying to make him look bad,

to why he jumped to a smaller bank,

why he decided to go back to the U.S. to get his MBA from Wharton

and what his passion is now. Enjoy.

R.E. Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

My pleasure. Patrick.

So if you could share just a quick bio with everybody.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'll just give you a bit of background on what I've done so far with my life.

So I was raised in Europe, came to the U.S. for high school,

then went in-state for undergrad.

It cost me next to nothing to actually attend the in-state.

Then I wanted to go back to the UK and I moved to the UK for a master's,

a master's in finance and accounting at the time.

Most people didn't do it because there was more than 10, 12 years ago.

So it wasn't as popular as it is today.

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