Update: mission complete. Thanks to everyone who offered help!
I'm currently interning at a bank, just a little in over my head with the work I'm tackling (though I'm crunching through 40-page documents on the hour, and learning more intensively than I ever have in school). I'm on the bus there on the verge of being late (first time) and I'm throwing a line to see if someone can answer my question:
My boss (vice president) and the founder/CEO of the bank are taking me and the two other interns to lunch , with two stock brokers/mutual fund managers from UBS. It's an opportunity to ask questions and hopefully make them remember my name, face, or tie.
So: I have done a LOT of research on both brokers, and it is now apparent to me how outright strange and profoundly creepy it is to meet someone with their entire career path memorized to the present. Is it appropriate to let on that I've done research on them while we're talking? Do they expect that or will I come off as a stalker (which I absolutely am in this case,) and what's the perfect balance? Lastly, any important advice for getting thr most out of this sort of scenario? I have numerous other meetings similar and I would like to be on my game. Cheers, hubsquad.
PS we're eating at per se. fuck me.
Edit: joking of course but the most significant advice here is that community tag. Downtown metro was totaled this morning and I was already running late. I ran 20 blocks in a suit in 5 minutes. I was more sweat than man.