Engineering to Private Equity

Hi all,

Long time lurker first time poster. I am keen to get some advice from you guys on moving from Engineering to LMM PE. I graduated in 2018 with honors in Mechanical Engineering. I've had two years of Strategy Consulting within an engineering context and now 18 months in a Systems Engineering position at a major Defense Prime e.g. LMA/BAE/Raytheon. Over the last two years I've also been studying an MFin and will be finishing at the end of the year. I have an opportunity to move into the CD team in my firm and I expect there will be a number of transactions (both buy and sell) over the next 24 months. Ideally, I'd like to get to PE asap but realize my experience doesn't quite match yet. A few questions, would my background be of interest for the traditional IB route? Should I stay at my firm and work CD for an IB or PE exit? consider VC and transition?
Keen for your perspectives! Any insight form those who have made a similar transition would be really appreciated!

 

You should consider a full time T10 MBA.

Working in CD should help though if you don’t get one and want to try and just switch to PE

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Thanks Isaiah!

You should consider a full time T10 MBA.

I am in Australia and although I would love to, that is probably not feasible. MBAs don't hold much weight here so I opted for a Masters of Finance. How hard do you think it is to do CD>PE without IB in between?

 

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