#201: Leveraging Institutional Finance to Empower Disabled Veterans with Cal Quinn, USNA ‘97

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“Our priority is to do well while doing good…Diversity says there's a difference between one person and the next. Inclusion identifies the value of that difference. That's what we need for our veterans, that difference needs to be valued by the civilian marketplace, and it needs to be harnessed so that the collective can be better than the individual.”</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Cal Quinn (USNA ‘97)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cal Quinn (USNA ‘97) is Founder & CEO of Bancroft Capital,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and institutional broker-dealer committed to excellence with the underlying ideal of levering the firm to facilitate the restoration of veterans and disabled veterans through access to meaningful careers. Prior to his career in finance, Cal served as a Logistics Officer & Aviation Logistics Officer at the Naval Supply Corps School before volunteering for the initial phase of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001, and was responsible for providing forward combat logistical support to surface, aviation, and coalition special force units operating in Afghanistan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The moving story behind Bancroft Capital</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Bancroft Capital empowers veterans to achieve financial freedom</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why helping disabled veterans earn and preserve their dignity is so important</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Bancroft Capital is disrupting the idea of greed at all costs in the financial industry</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why it’s important to challeng