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Alex holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Queen?s University at Kingston. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Your biggest risk is coming across as boring and narrow.
Based on your post, you can easily come across as all-finance-all-the-time. Either that worries you, or it doesn't. If it does, then you know what you need to do (anything but finance - get involved in politics, advocacy, etc outside of work; don't be boring). If it doesn't worry you and you feel like being 100% finance is who you are, then own it - yes, some (many?) folks will find you odd and maybe a bit flat, but it's your life, not theirs.
In any case, beyond that, I can't tell you how to spice things up, because that's entirely up to you. You can't appropriate "interesting" from other people. I don't know you.
You are only as interesting as your ability to imagine what that could be, and no one can give you imagination that you don't already possess.
Here's another way to put it: the most interesting people you'll come across have had experiences that only they could have gone through (and experiences that others couldn't have imagined for them in advance, particularly those people who are strangers to them) - not something they tried in advance to cram into a resume.
If you want to know how to be more interesting, ask people you know well: your partner/spouse, family members, close friends. They know you better about what kind of life you could have that no stranger on the internet could do.