Ricky DeRosa knew playing hockey long term wasn’t in the cards for him.
After playing a few games with the New York Rangers ECHL team at the time, the Greenville Swamp Rabbits, DeRosa was looking to an entirely new direction.
“I was always interested in finance throughout my time at Penn State. I actually didn’t even study finance, I studied management,” DeRosa said. “I had an opportunity to interview at a management firm located in Jersey City, New Jersey, called Lord Abbett.
“I transitioned from hockey straight to Wall Street pretty much.”
DeRosa, now a regional manager for Lord Abbett & Co.