Graydon Oliver

Mr. Graydon Oliver is Client Advisor at Avalon Advisors LLC.
He joined Avalon in 2010 as a Client Advisor.
While at Illinois, he was a member of the Men's Tennis Team and 2000 NCAA Doubles National Champion, awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor in 2001, Tennis Magazine - Arthur Ashe, Jr. Foundation Sportsmanship and Leadership Award, twice All American, twice Academic All American, and twice Illinois Scholar Athlete of the Year.
On graduation, he played on the ATP Tour from 2001 to 2005.
While on the Tour, he played in Wimbledon, the US Open, the Australian Open and French Opens every year from 2002 - 2005, achieved a career-high individual world ranking of #29 and team ranking of #12, won Four ATP Doubles Titles - Salem Open (Hong Kong), China Open (Beijing), Thailand Open (Bangkok) and RCA Championships (Indianapolis).
In 2005, he joined Leor Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas managing the Business Development team and Engineering Technicians, and served as Relationship Manager with key Leor partners, including, EnCana Oil and Gas, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Legends Exploration.
After Leor was sold in late 2007, he worked as the VP and COO of a Florida and Israeli based family office overseeing the all employees, operations, budgets, investments and due diligence.
In addition to his role with the Israeli based company, in 2009 he was the General Manager of Israeli football club, Beitar Jerusalem.
Mr. Oliver graduated from the University of Illinois in 2001, with a BA in Business Administration.