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David Kim is the founder and CEO of North Head Capital Partners, based in Hong Kong and founder and chairperson of Round Table Asian CEO, a community for founders of startups in the world. David is experienced CEO, seasoned corporate and investment banker and global strategy professional with nearly 3 decades of cross-functional expertise and worked at eight (8) international companies and banks living in six (6) Asian countries. Prior to joining North Head, David was a Senior Managing Director at Leading Investment and Securities based in Hong Kong and Executive Managing Director of W Bank based in Seoul. David was also Managing Director at GE Capital Korea overseeing entire corporate finance group for 7 years. He started his career at Korea Development Bank Capital in Seoul 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. His academic qualifications include an 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 speaks English, Korean and Japanese with full professional fluency and he is also able to speak Chinese and Thai.