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The ex-trader turning disabilities into profits
It's a fast-paced risk-taking industry glamorised by Hollywood and writers alike, but when one Wall Street trader left the floor he identified a huge market being ignored by the business world. Canada-based businessman Rich Donovan worked as a trader for Merrill Lynch for 10 years after graduating from the prestigious Columbia Business School. It was competitive enough, but with Cerebral Palsy he felt he had more to prove. "I was told to my face that I would never be a trader. They were wrong, but that's just the reality of having a disability. You figure out how to work around it." He says he was asked at every job ... (full story)