>> I went to Penn State.
I graduated with a degree in finance international business.
And I also minored in the Japanese language.
I was fortunate enough to get to spend my junior year abroad in Japan.
And focus on learning the Japanese language for that one-year time period.
I attributed a lot of it to luck.
But to some extent, you want to make your own luck in life.
And I was given opportunities early on in my career to continue
to get more and more responsibility.
And you know, really the key was paying attention to detail.
Having a desire to succeed and really putting the hours in that was required early
on the career to make a difference.
And you know, there's a statement they often say
that ninety percent of the work is just showing up.
But showing up required the time being ready at six thirty in the morning
and staying to ten thirty at night.
And there were many years of that, where there wasn't much of a break.
And you know, there's a price to pay for that.
But at this point I'm really glad I did it.
And you know, it's given me a chance to do things
that I never thought I'd get to do after college.