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Michael ByungJu Kim


Michael ByungJu Kim is Chairman and Founder of MBK Partners, a North Asia private equity firm. Prior to MBK Partners, Mr. Kim was President of Carlyle Asia Partners and  a member of The Carlyle Group’s Management Committee. Before Carlyle, he was managing director and COO of Asia-Pacific Investment Banking for Salomon Smith Barney and an executive director at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Kim has a B.A. from Haverford College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He was also a Fulbright Scholar. He serves on the boards of the MBK Scholarship Foundation, Harvard Business School, Carnegie Hall, and The New York Public Library. He was named one of Bloomberg’s “50 Most Influential People in the World” in 2015 and Forbes’ “Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy” in 2021. He is the author of the national bestselling novel, Offerings.

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