A banker turned social finance entrepreneur. Liu-Yue built and managed two social enterprises to help make the world a better place. Liu-Yue co-founded Oxstones Investment Club a social financial education website that helps facilitate the exchange of ideas on emerging alternative investment opportunities along the new Silk Road (emerging markets). Liu-Yue also co-founded Cute Brands, Inc. – Cute and Happy with a Cause! Cute Brands is a cause-oriented, character-based brand licensing and social impact fund that creates social awareness on global issues and societal challenges through character creations, and also supports select charities (WWF, WCS, and ASPCA) through consumerism. A NYC native, Liu-Yue worked as an Executive Associate at M&T Bank in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group. Prior to M&T, he held a number of positions in emerging markets bonds and Latin American equities at SBC Warburg Dillon Read (Swiss Bank), OFFITBANK (the wealth management division of Wachovia Bank), and in small cap equities and special situation investing at Steinberg Priest Capital Management (family office). Liu-Yue has a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from the Stern School of Business at NYU, and an MBA specializing in investment management and strategy from Georgetown University. He also completed graduate studies in international management at the University of Oxford, Trinity College.