Hello. I'm Paul Brodhead and this is my personal website.

If you're looking to get in touch with me,
you may reach me via email at:

webmaster [at] paulbrodhead [dot] com
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Life is good! My wife and I bought a house in San Francisco's East Bay in early 2009. We love our home, our neighborhood, and our town. Our baby girl just turned one! She's happy and healthy and is learning and growing and doing well. She's such a neat little kid; I think I'd think so even if I weren't her dad. She's so friendly and curious and fun to be with. I love being a dad and love spending time with my lady and our daughter.

I've been at my post-MBA job at Union Bank, in Securities Lending Operations, since spring of 2008. I've enjoyed learning about the trust and custody business, institutional investing, and deliveries and settlements. I get great satisfaction from helping my firm to be more efficient - to reduce risk and to save money. There's quite a bit of visibility and responsibility and pressure in my position... which is a good thing.

Working market hours is, contrary to what one might think, wonderful. I leave for work in the early morning when it's still dark out, a couple of hours before my wife and daughter wake up, and I'm usually home in the early afternoon. This allows me to spend a couple of hours with my family before we have dinner together, to play with my baby girl and to teach her things, and to read stories to her before bed every night.

I'm grateful that I get to spend so much time with my lady and our little girl. Spending time with my family is my favorite thing to do right now.

I've started studying for the CFA Level I exam in December. I've been getting up even earlier, studying on BART and studying before work and whenever I can find a chance. It's quite a bit of material to study! Much of it I'm familiar with already from my MBA studies, and some of it is new. I wonder if I'll be able to put in the hours needed to pass this thing. I'm taking it a day at a time... we'll see what happens.
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this page was last updated Wednesday, June 30, 2010.