>> So I went to Penn State University.
I actually went to Florida State original, and I transferred.
I'm from outside Philadelphia, and I realized the south wasn't for me.
Just not my, you know, I missed the northeast, the change of weather.
I like the fall, the winter.
And so I transferred up to Penn State after my first semester.
And I had no idea of what major I wanted.
Literally just, my dad was in business, and I thought alright, business sounds good.
You can probably make money there.
Sounds, you know, not as hard as being a doctor or a lawyer.
And business management was my major, and it just seemed pretty, it had a wide variety
of options once I graduated with a business management major
as opposed to finance or accounting.
So I did that, and I actually, I minored in corporate law,
and I told myself if I didn't have a good job offer
after graduation, I would go to law school.
It was a different market back then.
There were, it wasn't as tough to get a job.
But I'd have a fallback and go to law school.
Fortunately that didn't have to happen.
I got an internship with JPMorgan Chase doing marketing
for their credit card division in Wilmington, Delaware.
And that was the summer going into my senior year.
And actually I got two offers.
I got an offer also from the state attorney general
to do an internship in state college that summer.
But it was unpaid, and I would have to stay in state college.
And I figured I might as well get paid.
You know, I could use the money for my last year in college.
But had I chosen that one, and it literally came down to the wire,
I definitely would have gone to law school.
So just kind of a flip of a coin, changed my entire life.
And I know I would have had a completely different career had I chosen
that one internship.
But then at my internship at chase I got a job offer at the very end of my internship in August
to work full time for JPMorgan in New York.
And I actually never thought I'd be in New York.
I didn't like the city back then.
I visited it a few times.
I'm a Philly guy.
I never thought I'd end up here.
But the money and the offer they gave me sounded too good.
And it was a rotational development to begin with.
As I said I was a management major, so I didn't have a, you know,
a clear picture of what I wanted to do.
Even after graduation I said you know,
if they're offering me money to New York, I'll take it.
And that is a well-known company, so that's how I ended up there.
And I actually, I did very well there.
I got promoted twice.
And then the market crashed in 2008,
and I was working 18 hour days, hated my life, hated my job.
And I had a friend from college, Penn State, who worked for Showtime.
And I remember being on Instant Messenger at 11:00 at night at work
and going are there any openings at Showtime.
I hadn't, I knew nothing about the TV industry, about media industry.
But there was this opening in corporate strategy,
and they thought that my skillset transferred well.
And it did.
And I've excelled pretty well there.