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5
297 Sessions
Member since 2021
Investment Banking
  • Corporate Finance
  • Investment Banking
  • Tech VP with experience across US, London, & Dubai offices
  • Got offers from many bulge-brackets & elite boutiques
  • M&A focused + IPOs & Leverage Finance experience + Tech, O&G, Renewables, Infrastructure
  • Led my team's recruiting (interviewing & case studies) for analysts & interns. I have many rigorous case studies I can test you on
  • Went to a semi-target university - i.e. had to push harder & therefore developed extensive & intelligent networking skills
  • Extensive behavioral & technical interviewing skills having been religious in my preparation as well as having done +100 interviews across all banks
  • I focus on understanding the psychology of selling yourself in general & in an interview - and in my opinion, this supersedes anything else
  • My response to the classical "Tell me about yourself" question was a key driver in all the offers I got; with a memorable interview with a Morgan Stanley MD responding: "I am very impressed by your speech, I don't have any more questions, let's get to the technical part"
  • A friend failed to get any offer from over 10 banks he applied to over 2 seasons - Trained him before an upcoming interview with BAML & got an offer thereafter
  • San Francisco
    • Dubai
    • London
    • New York
$67 for 30 mins
  • San Francisco
    • Dubai
    • London
    • New York
Excellent
5
199 Sessions
Member since 2020
Hedge Fund
  • Hedge Funds
  • Consulting
  • 6+ years in public markets experience between single/multi-manager hedge funds
  • Career-changer able to advise on differences between industries and strategies to navigate a career change during business school
  • Has successfully coached WSO mentees to single/multi-manager hedge funds from outside the industry
  • New York
    • Hong Kong
$107 for 30 mins
  • New York
    • Hong Kong
Academy
Excellent
5
176 Sessions
Member since 2021
Sales & Trading
  • Asset Management
  • Equity Research
  • Hedge Fund
  • Hedge Funds
  • Risk Management
  • Sales and Trading
  • Over 7-8 years in quantitative research, development, and trading front-office roles, in both the buy-side investment management and sell-side capital markets.
  • Experience as a quantitative researcher at a top asset manager, quantitative analyst at a hedge fund, trader on a derivatives trading desk.
  • Personally interviewed and hired 100's of co-ops, new graduates, and junior members, and understand all aspects of the hiring process.
  • Expertise in quantitative areas of finance - financial theory (portfolio management, investment research, trading), technical (software development, systems design, data engineering), and data science (statistics, ML/AI, analytics).
  • Toronto
    • New York
Exclusive to WSO Academy
  • Toronto
    • New York
Academy
Excellent
5
170 Sessions
Member since 2020
Investment Banking
  • Investment Banking

* Bulge bracket experience at two different banks, serving in both coverage and product roles, with 10+ years of experience
* Experience working in both a West Coast office and the London headquarters
* Undergraduate and Masters degrees in engineering with 5 years work experience pre-investment banking; ultimately, returned to business school with the intent of getting into investment banking at the Associate level
* Actively involved in resume review and analyst, associate and VP interviews throughout my career (have likely reviewed well over 500 resumes and conducted at least 20-30 interviews per year)
* Led campus recruiting, new hire training programs and regularly participated in mentorship programs both within the bank and for students/candidates looking to break into the industry

  • London
    • Los Angeles
Exclusive to WSO Academy
  • London
    • Los Angeles
Excellent
5
159 Sessions
Member since 2020
Private Equity
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Harvard MBA
  • VP at $5Bn private equity fund
  • Previous Experience:
    • Investment Professional at Carlyle Special Situations
    • Associate at family office investing in emerging markets
    • Analyst at Credit Suisse
  • Sector experience: Healthcare, Business Services, Consumer & Retail
  • Worked in London (5+ years) and NYC
  • Boston
    • Houston
    • London
    • New York
$107 for 30 mins
  • Boston
    • Houston
    • London
    • New York
Excellent
5
128 Sessions
Member since 2020
Private Equity
  • Private Equity
  • Consulting
  • Private Equity investor at a large buyout firm focused on Growth and LBO strategies. Europe-based and part of the Global Healthcare team.
  • Experience in US-based mid-market PE firm.
  • He was a PE associate in a turnaround firm performing debt-to-equity investments on behalf of syndicated lenders.
  • He started his career as a Consultant for a Strategy Consulting Firm in the corporate finance and restructuring group.
  • BS & MSc and an MBA
  • Madrid
    • London
    • New York
$67 for 30 mins
  • Madrid
    • London
    • New York
Excellent
5
98 Sessions
Member since 2024
Investment Banking
  • Hedge Funds
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Sales and Trading

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  • New York
$67 for 30 mins
  • New York
Excellent
5
89 Sessions
Member since 2016
Private Equity
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Hedge Fund
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Private Credit

Expertise

  • Investment banking
    • Received IB offers from many bulge bracket banks and boutiques (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, UBS, Barclays, Citi, Evercore, Lazard, UBS, and Rothschild)
    • Led Investment Banking college campus recruiting for alma mater - screened hundreds of resumes and conducted interviews for summer analyst and full-time analyst positions
    • Instructor for analyst and associate onboarding training program
    • Significant experience prepping / training and helping both traditional and non-traditional candidates break into Investment Banking
    • Came from non-traditional and non-finance background myself and had to develop significant networking and proactive outreach strategies to break in
  • Private equity
    • Received Associate / VP offers from a range of large cap and middle market private equity firms (Blackstone, Warburg, Oaktree, Vista, FFL, etc.). Experience with both on-cycle and off-cycle recruiting, and navigating the increasingly accelerated recruiting process
    • Significant experience with both Associate (pre-MBA) and VP (post-MBA) recruiting
    • Managed PE Associate and VP recruiting for past 7 years - have screened hundreds of resumes and conducted case study / technical / behavioral interviews
  • Business school
    • Accepted to Harvard Business School and Stanford GSB
    • Experience helping others with planning and preparing for business school applications, including crafting the right story based on your specific professional experience
  • Other
    • Public markets (hedge fund recruiting)
    • Credit (leveraged finance, private credit, and distressed)

Background

  • 2 years investment banking at bulge bracket bank 
  • 1 year hedge fund experience at $30 billion+ multi-strategy fund with a flexible mandate (special situations, long/short equity, credit / distressed, activism, and private investments)
  • 8 years of private equity / growth equity experience at large cap / middle market private equity fund ($20 billion AUM)
  • 3 years of private equity, venture capital, and structured / hybrid capital experience at lower middle market private fund ($2 billion AUM)
  • Non-finance undergrad - networked and recruited into finance from non-traditional background
  • Areas: Investment Banking, Private Equity - LBOs, Private Equity - Growth Equity, Private Credit / Leveraged Finance, Restructuring / Distressed, Structured Investments, Public Markets, Venture Capital
  • New York
    • Boston
    • San Francisco
    • Toronto
$107 for 30 mins
  • New York
    • Boston
    • San Francisco
    • Toronto
Academy
Excellent
5
87 Sessions
Member since 2017
Private Equity
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Equity
  • University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • University of Chicago
    • CFA and MBA ‘19 Chicago Booth, worked as a Peer Career Advisor for students interested in IB
    • Previously spent 2.5 years at Credit Suisse in Investment Banking, primarily worked on M&A and IPO transactions. Interned junior year with CS and accepted return offer. Led on-campus recruiting initiatives and served as a mentor to summer analysts in my 2nd year
    • Graduated from the University of Chicago in 2015 with a BA in Economics and BS in Statistics. During college, was actively involved as a TA for Booth Finance professors, and worked with Ph.D students on research topics
    • Grew up in Houston, Texas and worked in New York before coming back to Chicago
    • Enjoys traveling, playing tennis, watching movies, and travel hacking
    • Fluent in English and Mandarin, with conversational proficiency in Spanish
    • Chicago
      • Chicago
      • Houston
      • New York
    Exclusive to WSO Academy
    • Chicago
      • Chicago
      • Houston
      • New York
    Excellent
    5
    86 Sessions
    Member since 2019
    Investment Banking
    • Consulting

    * Vice President at a financial advisory firm focusing on M&A for the past six years.
    * Broad sector coverage experience, with specific expertise in Financials and Healthcare
    * Helped numerous candidates from both traditional and non-traditional backgrounds break into investment banking
    * MBA from top 5 business school and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Mathematics from a liberal arts college

    • New York
      • San Francisco
    $107 for 30 mins
    • New York
      • San Francisco

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