Building Foundations in Finance vs. Product Management

Hey team,

Appreciate all the insight on my first post, have made a follow up considering the responses:

Background: Have been in tech consulting a couple of years, enjoying it, and looking to make the smartest move from here. I have an undergrad in SWE and finance, and am trying to decide whether I make the switch and try my hand at finance.

Interests: Unfortunately, I have a genuine interest in both tech and finance, and so going with what I enjoy leaves me in the same spot.

Goal: Being in upper management, most likely for a tech company.

Options: Either stay in tech consulting for now or shift into product management/strat consulting/more technical roles like solutions architecture. Or, do a year or two in corporate finance in Big 4 to get into the IB analyst programme, then go for corp strat and hope to use the finance background as a selling point for all future roles.

Comparison: How beneficial would a few years in finance right now be for me in accelerating my career to upper management? It seems like alot of CEOs have a finance background, hence my inclination to think that finance is a useful skillset to have, but then again I'm not sure if a few years in finance in my mid-20s would constitute a real finance skillset relevant for management positions. I'm also thinking about the exit opportunities from IB into industry, I know that corp strat is a viable exit opp, but could I achieve this just as easily by spend those years I would spend in finance instead doing tech product management? Could staying in tech/strat consulting also potentially keep corp strat open for me just as well as IB would? It also seems like IB would cut me out of anything more technical than corp strat, making any technical/architect roles or even product management a challenge to come back to. So, would you say spending the next years in finance would be more of a help or a hindrance if I head towards tech management afterwards? Can you see any other benefits for finance in my position, such as potentially giving me exposure to other industries beyond tech, incase there's a chance that I might actually be more happy to pursue management in a different industry?

Appreciate any and all feedback.

Cheers