Already a subscriber?Australia’s elite private schools may be breeding grounds for the next generation of chief executives, Rich Listers and political leaders but in the rough and tumble world of investment banking, a six-figure education counts for almost nothing.
“In our graduate recruiting, what high school you went to is not even a remote factor,” Pridham tellsThat said, some bankers like Pridham are still tethered to their high schools. He’s speaking at an event Rostrevor is hosting in a couple of weeks, while Goldman Sachs managing director Nicole Beavan presented at a networking event for her alma mater, Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney’s north shore earlier this month.
Sydney is certainly not short on bankers who were educated interstate. Emma-Jane Newton, who runs Deutsche Bank’s local investment bank, went to Wesley College in Melbourne; RBC’s head of investment banking, Sean Miller, attended Daramalan College in Canberra; while UBS’ co-country head Anthony Sweetman was schooled at John XXIII College in Western Australia.
Cartel enrolled in night school at Prahran College and TAFE. The initial plan was to simply finish Year 12, but his ambition got him to the University of Melbourne’s commerce-law program, and he won The Supreme Court Prize, awarded to the highest performers at Victoria’s law schools.“Having done my VCE at a TAFE, you find people from Scotch College, the girls were from PLC or MLC , and you ask, ‘what is going on?’ At that moment, I thought ‘wow, I wish I went to one of those schools’.