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.

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In this episode, London Mentor shares his journey from going to a non-target in Italy

to breaking into consulting where he worked for over three years.

Listen how he eventually decided to take on a lot of debt to go to a top MBA program

and make a successful transition to investment banking in London at the top bank.

Make sure you don't miss how much he had to pay in penalties to his consulting firm for not going back

and why it was still an easy choice for him.

A really fun chat.

Hope you enjoy.

Yeah. and easy choice for him. A really fun chat. Hope you enjoy. London Mentor. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Hi, Patrick. Thank you for having me.

So it'd be great if you could just start with a short summary of your bio for the listeners. Absolutely. So I graduated with a bachelor in business

administration. I'm Italian of origin and after that I decided to do a master in accounting

because I told it would have been a useful foundation no matter what I would have

ended up doing that later on. After that I started my career in consulting because I told it's a

quite broad space where you can start your career in and you can gain a quite differentiated

skill set but maintaining your perspective still broad.

However, as I was working more in a subsector, which was that of the due diligence,

I realized that I was interested more in the transaction experience, and therefore I start thinking,

brainstorming how I could transition to

investment banking as you might know the transition is very rarely done directly

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