They Called Me the “Ugly High School Graduate” in Front of Everyone — and My Family Expected Me to Smile and Accept It

well enough to advise people who had been doing it longer than I had been alive. The conviction turned out to be justified. The firm grew. We advised mergers, restructured debt, identified vulnerabilities in corporate balance sheets with the precise, diagnostic attention of a doctor reading an X-ray. Within five years, Altus was advising several companies continue reading …