From the trading floor to the ED: Alum returns to Yale with new calling | YaleNews

After graduating from Yale School of Management in 1993, Brian Roach spent 18 years in the banking industry. His career included stops in New York City, San Diego, and San Francisco. He worked for several companies — including one that he co-founded and a multinational bank that acquired it. It was in this last role that Roach found himself deeply unsatisfied; he was well-compensated but found himself feeling unfulfilled. So one day he quit, and over the next few years traveled, worked with a few businesses, and managed his family’s cabinet-making company. But he still wasn’t sure what the next major chapter in his life should be. Brian Roach at the Grand CanyonRoach spent a summer volunteering with the emergency services team at Grand Canyon National Park, but to continue working with them, he needed to become an emergency medical technician (EMT). While EMT school was supposed to get Roach back to the Grand Canyon, it would instead kick off a series of events that led him all the way back to New Haven. On the first day of EMT training in November 2018, fellow students were discussing accelerated nursing degree programs. That night Roach researched schools, by January he…
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