Bio (David Kim)

David Kim is the founder and Chairman of North Head Capital Partners, investment banking firm based in Hong Kong, which was founded by ex GE management members. He is also senator for China at The World Business Angels Investment Forum, an official affiliate partner of G20 and founder of CEO Roundtable club and the host of two podcast channels and contributing journalist @Korea Economic Daily 韓国経済新聞 and TechNode (China) writing an interview article every week.

David is experienced CEO, seasoned banker, and global strategy professional with nearly 3 decades of cross-functional expertise. He worked at eight (8) international companies and banks living in six (6) Asian countries (Korea, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia), during which he has successfully closed highly structured investment and financing deals for over 200 companies of various industries totaling more than USD 4 billion. Prior to joining North Head, David was acting CEO at Leading Investment and Securities based in Hong Kong and Senior executive managing director at W Bank based in Korea. David also worked as Managing Director and country head of corporate financing group at GE Capital Korea for 7 years. He started his career at Korea Development Bank Capital in Korea and helped to set up multiple Joint Venture non-bank finance companies and banks in emerging markets, including Nepal, Vietnam and Thailand in the mid-1990s and also worked as CFO for MILC in Thailand.

David is also a frequent lecturer at various seminars, MBA and banks on the topics of M&A. international joint venture, and fundraising.

His academic qualifications include MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics with distinction and a B.A. in Japanese literature from Korea University. He also studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Kyorin University in Tokyo. David is fluent in English, Korean and Japanese and conversationally proficient in Chinese and Thai.