The Problem We Kept Seeing
Students would finish traditional programs, show up to interviews, and freeze when asked to walk through a basic cash flow projection. They knew the theory. They could recite formulas. But the gap between textbook knowledge and practical application was massive.
We started trovexilano because we'd all been on hiring teams that watched talented people struggle with this disconnect. One of our founders, Vesna Lundquist, spent eight years recruiting for mid-sized investment firms across Sydney and Brisbane. She kept meeting candidates with impressive credentials who couldn't explain how they'd actually analyse a company's quarterly results.
The other two of us — Desmond Thibeault and myself — had been teaching financial concepts at various levels. We noticed students memorising without understanding context. They'd ace exams but couldn't adapt knowledge to messy real-world scenarios.
So we asked ourselves: what if we flipped this? What if students started with the work itself and learned theory as they needed it?
