Mr. Chou has over 22 years of experience in international finance and direct investment, including 17 years focused on the Asian market. He is currently overseeing Goldman Sachs’ direct investment effort in Greater China. In his current role, Mr. Chou has deployed capital covering asset classes spanning across private equities, structured financing (mezz loans/straight debt with equity upside), real estate development projects as well as non-performing loans acquisitions. Mr. Chou also sits on Global Special Situations Group’s Investment Committee and has a wide-ranging experience pertaining to Goldman’s global investment efforts. 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. Mr. Chou holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, an MS in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester.