Career Bankers --> C-Suite Roles?

Seems as though this is a career path taken by some career investment bankers? Is making it to MD/Partner and trying to get into C-Suite a viable career path or if one wants to have a C-Suite job is it better off to get into the corporate as soon as possible? 

Examples I've come across in just some quick research: 

Very much non-exhaustive list but would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on these type of career paths. 

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This is pretty common. The CFO of Luminar worked at Jefferies, MD at JPM became CFO of Peloton. A lot of times people want a banker as a CFO if they don't think the current management is public company ready. It's pretty rare that someone rises through the ranks and eventually becomes a CFO (and these people are usually from the treasurer/controller function if they do). 

 

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