Michael Liou serves as Investment Counselor at Citi Private Bank. Previously, was the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Anvil Capital Advisors. Prior to founding Anvil Capital, he spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs as Managing Director. He oversaw three business units in New York and San Francisco with a focus on equity derivatives, equity finance, and institutional sales. Previous to this he worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody building program trading systems, developing quantitative trading strategies, and trading equity derivatives. He began his career at Bell Laboratories Research in New Jersey. Michael also is a guest lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. Michael received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from New York University.