David Hou

Work Experience

• Joined MAI Capital Management in 2025
• Has 33 years of wealth management experience
• Advises institutional clients and high net worth family offices
• Co-founded Evoke Advisors in 2019
• At First Republic, he served as Senior Managing Director and was a member of the Altair Alternative Investments Committee
• Co-founded Luminous Capital, an independent RIA, which was later acquired by First Republic Bank
• Spent 16 years combined at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, where he helped build the Private Banking and Investment Group
• Began his investment career at Goldman Sachs in 1992, working in the Private Client Services Group

Life Outside of MAI 

• Advisory Board Member for UCLA Fink Center for Finance
• Advisor to Investment Committee for Cedars-Sinai endowment
• Previously served as a board member at Thrive Scholars, a national inner city scholarship foundation
• Lives in Pacific Palisades with wife and four children

Education

• UCLA, BA in Business/Economics
• UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA