Mike Strasser is a Partner with Chicago Partners Wealth Advisory and has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services businesses, managing the finances of high net worth individuals and businesses. He's also an active angel investor. He was a Founder and Principal of Ponderosa Wealth Management, an asset manager with offices in Washington and Arizona, and now resides permanently in Montana.

Mike has a B.S. in Finance from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He began his career at HSBC in the bank's US fixed income securities division and also worked with Arthur Laffer, Victor Canto, and Larry Kudlow at Laffer’s economic research and consulting firm, leaving in 1997 to start PWM.