There aren’t many real ex-rocket scientists for hire, but another area investment banks might look at is nuclear engineering – a skill that’s becoming less sought after these days. Merrill Lynch’s affable new hire Dante Roscini spent five years designing nuclear power plant before dwindling enthusiasm for the nuclear industry prompted a rethink. After business school he ended up at Goldman Sachs in 1988.
His timing could hardly have been better. After two years as a generalist in New York, he was assigned to the European equity capital markets department (ECM), which had been created in the mid-1980s by Eric Dobkin.
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