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Renowned Wall Street analyst Tim Kellis takes on what could be considered society’s biggest problem today: divorce. The journey that led to him tackling such a significant issue was both personal and professional. After a successful career that eventually landed him on Wall Street, Tim met what he thought was the girl of his dreams, only to see that relationship end with bitterness and anger. The journey included work with a marital therapist, and after he discovered the therapist wasn’t really helping decided to tackle the issue himself.
Ambition and a strong aptitude for math helped lead Kellis to discover how to make relationships work. His math skills led directly to an engineering degree, nine years in the telecommunications industry, an MBA in finance, and finally on to Wall Street, where he became the very first semiconductor analyst to focus on the communications market.
After publishing a 300-page initiation piece entitled Initiating Coverage of the Semiconductor Industry: Riding the Bandwidth Wave, Kellis became a leading semiconductor analyst at one of the biggest firms on Wall Street. The experience he gained as a Wall Street analyst provided an excellent backdrop for becoming an expert on relationships, and resulted in his relationship book entitled Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage.
We interviewed Tim to find out more about marriage, divorce and soul mates.
Thank you for this interview, Tim. Can you tell us the back story on why you wrote Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage?
After a successful career, and at the height of the market in 2000, I met the girl whom I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We fell in love, got engaged, fought and tried to get help from a marital therapist. When I realized the therapist wasn’t really helping I decided to tackle the issue myself.
So I researched, reading over one hundred books over a ten month period, at 2 ½ books a week, and spent nine months writing. This is probably one of the most researched books ever written. And my job will not be finished until I get my message out to the public.
Article comments
1 - Cheryl Malandrinos
Excellent interview! I truly feel like I know more about Tim's philosophy after reading it.
One thought-provoking point he makes is that perhaps marriage counselors don't really want to help because that would be bad for business. I've felt the same way about therapists in general. Once you've worked through your problems, there's no reason to keep coming back.
Keep up the great work Tim.
Cheryl