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Mike Chen, CFA, CAIA

Vice President, Senior Investment Strategist

Mike Chen is an Investment Strategist at First Foundation Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor based in Irvine, CA. At FFA, Mike develops and oversees the Alternative Assets platform, in which he performs due diligence on the Private Equity, Private Credit, and Real Estate asset classes in which the firm invests.

Mike has over a decade of experience serving at RIAs, including prior analyst roles at RVW Wealth and Lourd Murray. Mike is a CFA and CAIA Charter holder; he has earned an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business with a concentration in Finance, as well as a BS from the University of California, Berkeley, with a major in Electrical Engineering.

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