Valerie Garcia Houts
Valerie Garcia Houts

On Wall Street, a national magazine for retail brokers and the financial services industry, has named Valerie Garcia Houts M.B.A. ’99 to its annual list of “Top 40 Advisors Under 40.” Houts is 38. She and her 35-year-old partner at Merrill Lynch guide clients with $918 million in their accounts. Houts, who has been with Merrill Lynch since 2002, previously worked at regional banks while she earned her M.B.A. in the Haas School’s evening program.