And Bloomberg calm on the Bloomberg business APP and at Bloomberg Quick Take this is Bloomberg Radio. have died in the United States from Corona virus. Johns Hopkins University researchers say there have been over 20 million covert 19 cases in the U. S worldwide. There have been over 84 million cases and 1.8 million deaths, Federal health officials say over 4.2 million Americans have received their first dose of covert 19 vaccine. The CDC is coded data tracker shows just over 13 million doses have been distributed nationwide that includes more than two million doses sent for use in long term care facilities. New York State surpasses one million cases of covert 19 David Folk, Thomas Reports. Governor Cuomo, releasing the latest coronavirus figure Saturday afternoon of the more than 200,000 tests reported Friday, just over 15,000 coming back positive, and that was enough to push the overall number of cases since the pandemic began past the seven figure milestone. 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This is master's in business with very riddles on Bloomberg Radio. My special guest this week is Dave Welling. He is the CEO of Mercer Advisers. Denver based aura with 400 employees and over $21 billion in assets under management. Dave Welling Welcome to Bloomberg. Barry, It's great to be here, looking forward to it. So you have a really interesting job history that I want to discuss before we start getting into the details of welling you were in advance. You weren't black Diamond, Charles Schwab, Bain and Company tell us a little bit about your career path. Sure. So, Yeah, I think is you're getting at very young. Maybe not the traditional head of an advisory firm because I didn't start as an advisor. But I've spent close the last 30 years of my life supporting enabling, And as I call it Clearing the path for advisors. So I was very, very fortunate back in the mid nineties to join Charles Schwab in a really unique role an opportunity. I joined his Chief of staff, which was completely made up job for one of the vice chairman running the adviser business in the four awake a business, I'd say The chance to review with Chuck is part of the job. So, boy you know, talk about lucky is a way to enter this industry and do it the right way and learn the right principles. You know how to have a chance to work down the hall from shock and learned from him, But that was 1997 And prior to that I had some experiences, but they were in management consulting and like a lot of management consultant site, I dabbled in a lot of industries that worked in Telco. I worked in consumer products I worked in Technology at work in across the board actually work in the private equity consulting practice of Bain and company and well, that was an awesome experience and a great foundation for learning business. That role I found myself really longing. Find an industry that had a real purpose and the find a company and a place of that industry where you could really ended eight and trouble came that place for me at the beginning of my career, obviously of ups had some other stops along the way and I'm sure we'll get talk about those but really lucky has spent 12 years of swab through the growth and evolution of that business and to find the independent advisor industry on I just fell in love with it. So you you had gone from Bane to Schwab. And after 12 years of Schwab, you left to go to black Diamond, which seems to be Like a much more technologically focused, less straight up wealth management company than Schwab. What was that transition like? And did I miss state that it sounds like they're too Very different companies in a similar field. Well, yeah, black diamond for those that don't know. It's a technology provider, most notably, and Web based cloud based development. Providing reporting to advisers help them tell their stories, whether they were managing portfolios or providing a broader wealth management offering like Mercer Advisors does on in get similar to the story about financial services..