For over 17 years, Eric Kim has been helping both large publicly-traded companies and private corporations and small businesses with funding and positioning. Eric has written business plans to raise in excess of $150 Million dollars. In addition, Eric has significant start-up company experience, having founded three successful businesses and raised investor money for them.
While serving as a senior vice president at a bulge bracket investment bank, Eric wrote business plans, private placement memoranda, public company prospects, M&A sell-side offering memoranda, investment committee memoranda, management/investor/roadshow presentations, executive summaries, and “teasers” that resulted in over $20 billion of transaction deal value. Clients included private and NASDAQ-and NYSE- listed companies in technology, consumer, retail, real estate, service, financial, industrial and energy sectors. Eric developed financial and valuation models and instructed teams of analysts in financial modeling and valuation.
Prior to investment banking, Eric worked in the financial planning and strategy group of an Internet company, where he created financial forecasting models, analyzed budgets, and developed product pricing and customer contract value models. Eric also worked at Google as a manager in their Corporate Finance Group.
Eric has also spent time in the private equity / venture capital and consulting worlds, where he worked on numerous investments, screened business plans and investment memos, and wrote investment committee recommendation memos.
Eric earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, with a major in Corporate Finance and Private Equity / Venture Capital. He received a B.S. degree in Business Management from The University of California, Berkeley.