Nathaniel stopped directly in front of me and smiled. “Adelaide, congratulations on the Rotterdam acquisition. Two billion in assets under management is quite a milestone.” The room went completely silent. My mother actually laughed at first, apparently assuming he had confused me with someone else. Nathaniel looked puzzled until I quietly explained that my family did not know much about my work. Then he introduced me the way he would have in any boardroom: founder and controlling owner of Carter Infrastructure Group, the company his firm had partnered with on projects across Europe and North America.
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