Mr. Chou has over 25 years of experience in international finance and direct investment, including 20 years focused on the Asian market. Before his retirement in August, 2020, Mr. Chou oversaw Goldman Sachs’ direct investment efforts in Greater China across PE, real estate, structured financing as well as NPL acquisitions.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2000, Mr. Chou worked as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co., both in New York as well as in Hong Kong. At Merrill Lynch, Mr. Chou specialized in areas of mergers and acquisitions where he worked on numerous mergers including the landmark transaction between the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Futures Exchange in 1999. Prior to his tenure at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Chou started his career with Oracle Corporation in the US where he worked as a project leader at Oracle’s Professional Services Group from 1990 to 1994.