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, Douglas Rogers shares his long and winding path after graduating from Cornell in 1996.

We learn about his stint as a broker-dealer, his time as an associate portfolio manager for

ultra-high net worth individuals,

as well as what happened when he founded his own advisory firm only a few years out of school.

Listen to here where there were pitfalls, the lessons he learned and why after several stints

at senior positions at boutique IBs, he's decided to become CEO again with the launch of semi-cap equity partners.

Enjoy.

Douglas, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you, Patrick.

It's great to be here.

So it would be awesome if you could give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Absolutely.

I'll try.

I've certainly taken a differentiated path.

So, you know, I started out my career after a short break from college back in 96.

I started out my career with Morgan Stanley

Dean Witter and retail brokerage. I had really exceptional brokerage training. It was one of the

best on the street at that time, but I really wasn't fit for just a phone call, which is really what

the job was at that time. So I very rapidly transitioned into a fee-based asset management with a small boutique asset manager based across the Bay of San Francisco.

And really enjoyed the work.

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