Mr. Liu is a Co-founder and Managing Director of EL Capital. Mr. Liu is in charge of the U.S. business of EL Capital. Mr. Liu was a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Grains Valley Capital, a China based PE firm, where he had successfully invested in 5 profitable companies and one went public on December 2007. Mr. Liu was the assistant to Guang Fa Securities' Chairman and a Senior Manager at Guang Fa Securities' investment banking group. While at Guang Fa Securities, he experienced a number of IPOs and M&As, for example, he represented GF Securities as a lead investment banker brought China's No.1 securities firm CITICS to IPO in 2002. Mr. Liu also was an Investment Manager for China Shipowners Mutual Assurance Association (China P&I Club), where he implemented investments in China's two top 10 banks: China Minsheng Banking Corp and China Everbright Bank.

Mr. Liu has an MBA from Dowling College's Townsend School of Business and a Bachelor in Economics from China's University of International Business & Economics (UIBE).