This episode's guest, Mark Flaherty, is a stock market and trading guru who currently serves on the Boards of Goldman Sachs and the PGA Tour. Mark grew up in Massachusetts, and started caddying at Mt. Pleasant Country Club nearby when he was 9 years old. Caddying became building blocks for opportunities in Mark’s life as he learned to appreciate meritocracy and hard work from a young age. Mark attended Providence College where he was on the JV basketball team. After Providence, he learned about options trading at a manufacturing company that made products out of gold and silver - at one point their inventory was 2 million ounces of gold, and he was the largest market maker of gold options in North America. Mark then went to Aetna to serve as their director of equity trading, and then went to Standish Ayer and Wood to serve in the same position as a Partner. Eventually he went on to Wellington Management and became Vice Chairman of Global Investment Services. Mark retired from Wellington in 2011, and has served on the Board of Director for Goldman Sachs since 2014 on the Audit, Risk and Governance Committees. In 2020, Mark was named to the Board of Directors for the PGA Tour. You’ll learn about Mark’s concept of “getting out of the way,” why the number 15 is Mark’s anchor, how always being accessible was the key to his successful growth, and why he believes the PGA Tour’s future is more exciting than ever.