In short, a basic education, which many take for granted, wasn’t nearly as straightforward for us. I’ve often joked to friends that I ‘taught myself middle school’, but it wasn’t really a joke.
Thrown into a position of significant responsibility as the oldest child, I had to learn to teach my myself, teach and mentor my younger siblings and to fend for myself while my dad worked long hours to make ends meet. Opioids would later affect (sometimes fatally) numerous close friends and family members as well.
In short, what the media now calls ‘the opioid crisis’ was my childhood.
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My world went into a downward spiral around age eleven when my mother was diagnosed with a disease the doctors didn’t know how to treat so they endlessly prescribed her ‘pain pills’ which put her out of commission for weeks on end for several years.
Around this time, my mother decided we would be homeschooled. West Virginia was much more affordable but required my father to work long hours and to commute 3.0 hours (total) every day. I endlessly debated with myself whether to share this, but for anyone who thinks you need a ‘normal’ background to get into finance, I hope you can see here that you don’t.īy way of background, I am the oldest of five children and we lived a relatively normal life in central PA before moving to West Virginia when I was 10. In light of this perception, two of my core goals with finance|able are to make finance more approachable (and god forbid…a little fun!) and to increase awareness around the range of options for top-tier finance careers. Especially when the concepts can seem wildly confusing and it can appear as if everyone in top-tier roles comes from a ‘perfect’ background. For many though, achieving a position at a top-tier firm can seem completely unattainable. Mike is deeply passionate about making training intuitive, engaging and fun.įinance changed my life….full stop. He’s also trained countless undergraduates ranging from liberal arts to finance majors as well as top-tier MBA students at schools including Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Columbia Business School. During his tenure, he trained multiple Fortune 500 Companies, top-tier investment banks, small-cap through mega-cap PE funds and some of the world’s largest hedge funds. In 2019, he joined WSP as a Managing Partner and co-led content development, launched the Private Equity Practice and led nearly all custom content projects. For the first two years he was a top-rated instructor and trained over 5,000 students. Over the last three years Mike worked at Wall Street Prep (WSP), a leading global financial training firm. In 2020, Mike created a special seminar, through the Heilbrunn Center at Columbia, called Analyst Mastery to help train first year students interested in entering the Value Investing Program. Two years after graduating from Columbia, he was invited to join the Adjunct Faculty to teach in the highly selective Value Investing Program which he taught in until 2019 when he pressed pause to focus on Access Distributed (see below).
He solely trained the incoming summer Analysts and Associates as a second year analyst at UBS LA and later trained incoming Associates at Golden Gate. Throughout his career, Mike has been heavily involved in training and education. After earning his MBA at Columbia Business School, he joined HIG Capital ($42B under management) as a Vice President and later a long/short hedge fund in New York City that grew to nearly $2B in assets during his five year tenure at the fund. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he began his career in Investment Banking at UBS LA (then run by Ken Moelis), which led to a role in Private Equity at Golden Gate Capital ($15B under management). Mike has spent 15+ years in the finance industry working with companies around the globe. EBITDA – Definition, Application, and Pitfalls.Tricky Finance Concepts…In Plain English Expand.Master Common Interview Questions Expand.
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