>> So, I went to Penn State, I majored in finance and when I was there I got involved
in something called the Nittany Lion Fund,
which was a student run mutual fund that we had on campus.
And that's kind of what gave me my first taste into the market and into stocks
and into just the economy as a whole.
And it gave me the framework to look at different things within the financial industry
and it's something that I saw that I was interested in
and something that I wanted to do long term.
So, it's kind of how I got interested in it when we looked
at different stocks and analyzed the economy.
I was able to run with that and probably got into a job with Morgan Stanley.
So, I think that skills that I acquired, just from a finance stand point,
definitely helped me, you know, get up to speed quickly and kind of understand what's going on.
Once I got here, I was able to understand and eventually participate in conversations,
you know, the investors are having.
In terms of being able to listen and see how different people are thinking
about different things, to me I think that my background is very finance heavy.
It's definitely been-- I mean, it seems like it's all kind of worked
out on one single path so to speak.
I mean, I was fortunate enough to find something that I enjoyed in school and I was able
to just [inaudible] to something here.