E78: Bear Stearns Survivor to Renewable Energy Expert

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🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this episode, @dcorey shares his path from how he broke into Bear Stearns from a complete non-target school right before the financial crisis to how he survived once it was acquired by JP Morgan. Listen to hear why he followed a managing director to a smaller firm in the renewable energy space as well as one piece of advice he would give to his younger self.

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0:00.0	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.
0:21.6	Let's get to it.
0:25.4	In this episode, D. Corey shares his path from how he broke into Bear Stearns from a complete
0:31.3	non-target school right before the financial crisis to how he survived once it was acquired
0:36.1	by J.P. Morgan. Listen to hear why he followed
0:39.6	a managing director to a smaller firm in the renewable energy space, as well as one piece of advice
0:44.2	he would give to his younger self. Enjoy. All right, Dan, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.
0:59.9	Great to be here. Thanks, Patrick.
1:01.9	It'd be great if you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your bio.
1:05.4	Yeah, of course. So undergrad, I went to Moravian College, majored in economics, picked up a little technical side with physics and mathematics along the way.
1:18.3	From there, coming from a tier three school, took me a bit, but I finally broke in and worked at Bear Stearns doing principal investment, learned commodities, tax-enhanced structuring, survived the merger, hung around J.P. Morgan and called it quits, surprisingly, but did a not-so-uncommon tale of followed my old managing director off into the Great
1:47.9	Frontier where I built a couple hundred megawatts of renewable energy power as a developer
1:55.7	the OVP of finance role type and then followed that market, moved back towards the
2:04.1	buy side doing asset management for the like, all sorts of renewable energy for Sumitima
2:10.4	Corporation, one of the big five Japanese trading companies, which led me to where I am today,
2:16.6	working with some of my partners at Asia Lantic.
2:19.9	And we do a bit of the same of what I just described.
2:24.0	We're strategic advisors working on ESG and other impact-oriented investment structures.
2:33.1	Great.
2:34.0	Thank you for that. So let's start all the way
2:36.2	back at your undergrad. So Moravian College, where is that? My favorite question, where is
2:43.8	Meravian? It's in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It started in 1742, one of the oldest colleges in the country. I always say they've
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