Immediately prior to founding TLGY Holdings, Mr. Kim was with TPG Capital, a leading global private equity firm, where he served as a Partner and Member of its Asia Investment Review Committee. At TPG Capital, Mr. Kim co-led four major transformational investments across China’s consumer sector. Before TPG, Mr. Kim served as President of Dell Korea, the Korean affiliate of Dell, and successfully established Dell as a leading player in Korea, where it had struggled previously. Prior to 2002, he served as a VP of Internet Business Capital Corporation, a USA-based early-stage VC firm which founded/participated in early investments in successful ventures including Cambridge Technology Partners and Razorfish. Mr. Kim started his career in 1996 in the Seoul and Boston offices of McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Kim earned an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard College, a diploma from the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, and an AB in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Government from Harvard College.