Michael Kim

Current

Partner at Rustic Canyon Partners

Past

Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley & Co.
Associate at Chase Manhattan Bank

Education

The Wharton School
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

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Michael Kim’s Summary

Michael Kim is a Northern California partner of Rustic Canyon Partners, a $900 million private equity and venture capital firm based in Santa Monica. Michael joined Rustic Canyon Partners from Accelerator Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based partnership that invests in early stage technology companies.

Formerly an investment banker, Michael was with Morgan Stanley's Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Group in Menlo Park. Michael was directly involved with 27 announced transactions worth over $77 billion for such clients as Hewlett-Packard, Ciena, Seagate, Bay Networks, Netscape and Texas Instruments. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Michael was an associate at The Chase Manhattan Bank in NYC and also worked at IBM.

He is an honors graduate of Cornell University, has an MS from the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Michael is on the board of directors for the following Rustic Canyon portfolio companies: Archcom, Auxora, Capella, Dipity, EM4, Insync, NanoNexus and TwoFish.

Michael serves on the board of Lead21, an organization that enables entrepreneurs to advocate free market public policy, and was formerly on the board of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank that champions freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free market policy solutions. He is a Trustee of the Asian Art Museum Foundation, and the former Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Symphonix League of the San Francisco Symphony. In March 2004, Michael was appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco as a Trustee of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System, a $16 billion pension fund. He served as the President of the board for fiscal year 2007, and is currently the Chairman of the Investment Committee.

Michael Kim’s Experience

Partner

Rustic Canyon Partners

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

July 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)
Investment Banker

Morgan Stanley & Co.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Investment Banking industry)

August 1997 — February 2000 (2 years 7 months)

Technology M&A
Associate

Chase Manhattan Bank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

August 1992 — July 1995 (3 years)

Michael Kim’s Education

The Wharton School

MBA, Finance, 1995 — 1997
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

MSFS, International Relations, 1990 — 1992
College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University

AB, Government, International Relations, 1986 — 1990