Career Path(s):

- Advertising, Marketing & Business

- Infrastructure

 

 

​Describe your usual work environment:

 

Investment bank advising and funding start-ups in aerospace.

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Please provide a brief description of your job:​

 

Managing Partner [at NEXA Capital Partners].

 

​What made you decide to pursue your chosen career path?​

 

I have a Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and worked in the manufacturing supply chain for 20 years. Since the late 1990s I reverted to finance and investment banking.  This gave me the ability to assess investment opportunity through the lens of science and engineering.

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​What are the three key skills that are required for your job?​

 

Engineering, finance and people skills.

 

What would you say is the biggest misconception about your job?​

 

That it is hard work and boring because of mixing tech with accounting.  Not true!

 

​What advice would you give to a school student who is interested in pursuing a career similar to yours?​

 

Develop a strategy to pursue post grad education in a field not your undergrad major.

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​If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?​

 

To teach everyone the value of civics through grade-school level education.