Team

Michelle Wu, CFA

Managing Director & Founder

Tainan

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  • Michelle has more than 20 years experience in Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Strategy Consulting.
  • She is located in Taiwan and focuses on Fairmont’s business development, general management and steers our
    consulting mandates.
  • Prior to starting Fairmont, Michelle was heading the DCM division for ICBC (Asia) in Hong Kong as an MD and she was a
    Director in the Principal Investment Division at SinoPac Securities (Asia). Prior to that, she was head of the Large Business Credit unit of Barclays Bank in London while earlier experiences stem from Moody’s (London) and Merrill Lynch (New York).
  • Michelle holds an M.S. from University of Wisconsin, a BBA from National Taiwan University and she is a CFA Charterholder.

Brian Liou

Director

Taipei

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  • Brian has more than 25 years experiences in private equity and investment banking.
  • He was the founding President of the Lippo Tsinghua Holdings Fund (One of the 2016 Preqin “10 Largest First-Time Private Capital Funds in Market”, a US$1.7bn fund initiated by the US$6bn Lippo Group, and the US$25bn Tsinghua Holdings), the MD of VantagePoint THT (A private equity firm formed by the US$17bn THT Holding Group, and Tesla Motors’ major investor the US-based VantagePoint who managed US$4bn mandates for AT&T Pension, AXA US, BP Retirement, CalPERS, and JP Morgan Pension Scheme), and the Associate at Crimson (US$770mn private equity funds managing mandates for CalPERS, Chinatrust / Koos, IBM, PGGM, Samsung, Mitsubishi, and the Kuwait Investment Authority.)
  • Brian also worked at General Catalyst (US$33bn private equity funds managing mandates for CalPERS, Yale Endowment, MIT Endowment, Rockefeller Foundation, and TIFF) in Boston, and UBS Investment Bank in New York.
  • He holds the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University, the Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, and the Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Elizabeth Cha, PhD

Senior Consultant

Taipei

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  • Elizabeth has more than 20 years experience in Computer Science, Bioengineering, Teaching and Research.
  • She joined Fairmont in October 2019 and is located in Taiwan. Elizabeth focuses primarily on project solutions in the
    fields of ICT, MedTech and Healthcare.
  • Prior to Fairmont, Elizabeth was the Country Manager of Insilico Medicine (Taiwan), responsible for local business
    development and operations. Earlier experiences include, amongst others, leading research mandates at the Institute for
    Information Industry and the University of Louisville and being an Assistant Professor at Chung Yuan University in Taiwan.
  • Elizabeth holds a PhD and MSC from University of Louisville and BSC from Chung Yuan Christian University.