After 14 Years in Investment Banking, I Joined the Crypto Industry
Cointelegraph
Published Mar 27, 2020 11:49AM ET
Updated Mar 27, 2020 01:20PM ET
“How could I possibly do this?” — That is what I asked myself when the opportunity presented itself to leave my 14-year career in corporate and investment banking to join the startup world. It was certainly one of the biggest decisions of my life. I chewed on it for a month, which in my world of decision making, is quite a long time.
One of my most active clients at the time was a TSX-listed DirectCash Payments Inc, a global payment processing company with operations on multiple continents and valued at $460 million when sold to Cardtronics in early 2017. As one of their lead investment bankers, I worked extensively with the management team over the years. We traveled the world doing different acquisitions in order to fuel growth and to raise money for those acquisitions.
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