What do you consider Citi's competitive
edge?
Citi has been able to do what few institutions have: provide the
best of everything to all clients, big or small, public or private,
U.S.-based or multinational. We excel in all products and services,
and we continue to grow our offerings to meet our clients'
needs.
How would you describe your team and the people you work
with?
At the end of the day, it's very simple: I work with people who
are extremely bright, motivated and interesting. Our work is
challenging and provides us continuous opportunities for growth,
but what really matters is that I work with people who I really
enjoy spending time with.
What other groups do you liaise with regularly within
the Firm?
In the Industrials group, we are always working with various
parts of the bank, including Equity Capital Markets, Leveraged
Finance, Investment Grade, Asset Backed Finance, Structured
Products, Liability Management, and Private Placements.
How do you apply your degree to what you're doing
now?
As a business school student, I had the opportunity to take a
variety of classes that would apply to my career in investment
banking, whether it was finance or accounting, options or M&A.
Though more theoretical, these courses provided a basis for
understanding and discussing these topics. At the end of the day,
Investment Banking ends up being its own school; in a very short
timeframe, you learn more on the job than you do in any
classroom.