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Randall has been in the trenches of international finance for twenty-five years. Born in Queens and bred in New York City. Having worked in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, he's succeeded but only with the accumulated battle scars from many years in the trenches of corporate life.

Nothing has ever come easy to Randall. During his first job on the trading floor on 50 Broad St. next to the New York Stock Exchange, he picked up dry-cleaning for his head trader and took lunch orders for the traders until he got his own trading book.

He's had to earn every bit he's had, and he's still not done yet. His entire career has been in corporate, not education, so he brings a real-life practical framework for decision-making.

His love affair with New York lasted longer than his first marriage, and this city has been his greatest love and a harsh taskmaster who's never spared the rod when a lesson needs to be taught.

Coming up in the trenches of New York City finance, he's learned to navigate the world of office politics, where his interns would do more than joke about taking his job by the time he'd be back from vacation and where co-workers would publicly plot the destruction of colleagues daily.

He decided to talk about education and college decision-making when his juniors on the desk asked him to put up or shut up; Randall thinks it is a travesty that graduates are burdened by crushing debt when others use the system to their advantage.

Randall actively supports many New York City charities and, at this stage of his career, wants to give a little back to make the college decision-making process more manageable and cheaper so graduates can start their careers on the fast track instead of spending decades paying back student loan debt as he had too.

Randall is a first-generation immigrant kid with parents from the Caribbean, neither of whom graduated high school, and is New York City-born and bred. He maintains his shoes better than his car. He knows exactly which door to exit from in the subway and only eats bagels in NYC, preferably with cream cheese and lox.

Randall decided to start this blog and is in the process of writing a book about college decision-making from the corporate viewpoint of a manager who's had to hire and fire when the time arose.

So, who am I? Some days, I'm a proud dad. On others, I'm a son taking care of sick parents. On a rough day, I'm wrecked in the office. On others, I'm on top of the world. Recently, I've been an author. I feel privileged that you'd care enough to ask who I am. I suppose I am who I'm supposed to be, warts and all.

How about you?