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 the pharma guy shares his path from a hard science biomedical degree

all the way to pivoting to a master's in management and eventually breaking into a top

healthcare strategy consulting firm in the UK.

Learn how much he makes now and why he chose to work in strategy consulting over investment

banking. Enjoy.

Farmagai or the Farmer guy. Thanks for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me. First off, thank you for being such an incredible member, too. On the site,

you've been around for a long time and have an incredible number of silver bananas. So thanks for that.

No problem.

So it would be great before we kind of get started if you could just give the listeners

a quick kind of summary bio.

Yeah, so my background is in biomedical sciences, specifically pharmacology and genetics

from what is considered a UK medical target and then I pivoted to

management again from a UK target so I think LBS at the C Oxbridge and then from there I kind

of dabbled around some health consulting internships, some part-time

for a firm that did healthcare due diligence for private equity firms, and then that kind of

launched me into just a full-time healthcare consulting.

So strategy consulting within the pharmaceutical and biotech sector is predominantly.

Great, really interesting. So let's start back in undergrad. So you kind of, well, even further back,

kind of just family situation and life, what made you think this is the school? Do you have family

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