When I left University in 1987 I joined the corporate advisory division of a leading investment bank.  After three years I decided that selling the deals I was working on was where I wanted to be.  So I rang Michael Sandler to ask for a job.  That was in 1990 and I have enjoyed working at Hudson Sandler ever since.  Deals have included over 20 IPOs as well as advising on many of the highest profile M&A transactions of recent years.  And I am proud to have built long term relation ships with a portfolio of retained clients where we always strive to deliver new perspectives and original thinking.  We continue to win great quality new business with the new challenges that I relish.  As I say to everyone in this business, we've had a great past together, but the best is yet to come.