Millionaire banker who punched woman to the ground in affluent Park Slope preached the importance of 'empathy' and 'understanding' in 2023 interview as his company confirms an internal investigation is underway

The millionaire concern banker who was filmed punching a pistillate successful the face, causing her to autumn to the ground, connected the streets of New York preached the value of 'empathy' and 'understanding' successful an interrogation past year.

Jonathan Kaye, 52, was recorded throwing a vicious overhand close astatine the unnamed woman successful Brooklyn connected Saturday evening. The woman is seen being thrown to the level by the unit of the punch. It is unclear what sparked the confrontation. 

Kaye works arsenic a Managing Director astatine Moelis & Company, a starring concern slope with offices successful Midtown Manhattan. The company has spurred an probe into the incident, a spokesperson antecedently confirmed to DailyMail.com.

The Wall Street executive, a joined father-of-three, revealed during a podcast interrogation successful May 2023 that helium often mentors inferior bankers and identified the skills helium believes are captious to having a palmy career.

Kaye told the LSE Focal Point Podcast that a palmy idiosyncratic demonstrates 'empathy', is 'understanding' of others, and exercises bully determination making skills, including 'managing your reputation'.

Kaye is a spouse managing manager and a caput of concern services at Moelis.

In his existent role, helium oversees 10 verticals wrong Moelis's Business Services faction, managing 'a dedicated squad of bankers and... an extended web of relationships with some strategical companies and backstage equity investors,' according to his illustration connected Moelis's website.

He besides serves connected the firm's Management Committee, demonstrating his presumption successful the fiscal sector, and does a 'fair magnitude of mentorship' with inferior staff, Kaye told the podcast.

He shared that helium advises his mentees and aspiring bankers that they won't person the 'freedom' to enactment successful the roles they privation until they 'achieve 1 precious happening - judgement'.

'Any occupation that you privation to person yet successful concern - whether it's advising companies, managing money, deploying superior oregon starring a institution operationally - you're going to person that presumption due to the fact that of judgement,' Kaye said.

He argued that portion entry-level positions successful concern and concern banking 'really accelerate your judgement successful a mode that's remarkable', the astir palmy radical successful the manufacture 'really put successful your experience' astatine the institution arsenic a whole.

'That means not conscionable hard work, but absorption connected putting yourself successful firms, successful positions, and with radical who tin springiness you the astir packed measurement of acquisition that you perchance can,' helium advised.

'Pay attraction and absorption connected the people, you respect due to the fact that they're apt succeeding for a reason.

'So yes, you should larn the hard skills arsenic accelerated arsenic you can, but successful the extremity it's truly the skills of grit and resilience, learning however to listen, knowing what is motivating different people, and empathy - those are the indispensable skills that abstracted you from a calculator.'

Kaye holds a BA from Tufts University, wherever helium studied past and integrated chemistry, and graduated cum laude from the Duke University School of Law. 

During his 10 years astatine Moelis, Kaye helped the steadfast 'become a marketplace person with implicit 125 executed transactions representing implicit $100 cardinal successful corporate endeavor value,' according to the The Jewish Grad Organization.

But earlier moving astatine Moelis, Kaye held positions astatine JPMorgan and Jefferies.  

He told the podcast that arsenic idiosyncratic who entered the banking assemblage without a inheritance successful finance, helium had a 'rough' commencement to his fiscal career.

'They were hard years, but I learned a lot,' helium said of his modulation into banking. 'I learned I was arsenic not arsenic peculiar arsenic my parent told maine I was.

'I learned that Wall Street could beryllium a merciless spot and that and the rewards - and I don't mean compensation, I truly mean opportunities, mentorship attention, the accidental to enactment connected the champion situations, those things - followed those, who did bully enactment and did bully work, consistently.'

He said that successful summation to having to familiarize himself with the basal fiscal concepts that his peers had learned during their collegiate studies, helium besides had to larn however to navigate the manufacture arsenic a whole.

Kaye added: 'I learned immoderate of the basal concepts that astir apt look evident but erstwhile you're successful your 20s you benignant of person to larn them each from scratch. 

'Those are things similar doing what you accidental you're going to do, being consistent, cautiously managing your reputation, cautiously managing hard people, and staying distant from toxic people.

'This was besides a clip successful concern wherever they were just, they were conscionable little rules and radical were benignant of rougher than I deliberation the situation is today.'

Kaye was filmed punching a pistillate successful the look connected Saturday, causing her to autumn to the ground.

Video shows him throwing a vicious overhand close astatine the unnamed pistillate successful Brooklyn - wherever helium lives successful a $4million four-bedroom townhouse successful pricey Park Slope.

The pistillate is past thrown to the level by the unit of the punch, arsenic 1 onlooker unsuccessfully rushes to her aid. 

Others looking connected are heard calling Kaye an 'a**hole' and telling him to 'go f**k himself' - earning his attraction concisely earlier helium abruptly walks away.

The footage, meanwhile, is abbreviated and shaky, but includes a infinitesimal wherever Kaye turns to the camera aft knocking the pistillate to the floor.

Kaye walks off, holding a container successful 1 hand, with a bedewed stain connected the backmost of his blazer. 

In 1 clip containing a caption overlaid implicit the footage, a idiosyncratic wrote: 'This feline punched maine successful the look contiguous and broke my nose. [He also] busted up my friends[sic] arm... tin anyone find him?'

A spokesperson for his leader confirmed to DailyMail.com that Kaye is the antheral seen successful the viral video, and said that it has already spurred an investigation.

'We person go alert that 1 of our employees was progressive successful a superior incidental successful Brooklyn connected June 8,' a Moelis typical said, arsenic the 12-second snippet continues to summation traction online.

'We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and are conducting an investigation,' she added.

The discourse of the punch-up is inactive unclear. 

Although Moelis is probing the incident, arsenic of writing, it remains chartless whether it has been reported to the NYPD. DailyMail.com has contacted constabulary for comment.