Career in Finance
After graduating in Law, O'Callaghan went into investment banking, starting at Morgan Stanley working in the London and Hong Kong offices. This was followed by a stint at Salomon Brothers in New York, now a part of Citigroup.
In his last investment banking job, prior to moving to the education sector, he worked for CS First Boston, the investment banking arm of Credit Suisse. In this job he met Pat McDonagh, a serial entrepreneur, who founded CBT, now known as SkillSoft, Riverdeep, and Thirdforce, where Pat McDonagh is the current Chairman. Pat McDonagh hired O'Callaghan as the CEO of Riverdeep in 1999, ahead of its Initial Public Offering. At the time O'Callaghan was 31 years old.
Read more about this topic: Barry O'Callaghan
Famous quotes containing the words career and/or finance:
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)