E. Kurt Kim

E. KURT KIM is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Private Raise LLC. Mr. Kim has spent the past decade in various
advisory and deal-making capacities within the financial services
sectors. Prior to founding PrivateRaise, LLC, Mr. Kim was an
Investment Manager with Promethean Asset Management, LLC, and was
responsible for the origination, structuring, negotiations and
execution of investment opportunities involving equity private
placements. Mr. Kim has had significant experience in investing
in equity private placements by issuers across a diverse range of
industries/sectors and utilizing a broad array of investment
structures. Prior to joining Promethean, Mr. Kim worked as a
management consultant for Mercer Management Consulting and Towers
Perrin, both based in New York, and has had significant
experience consulting with the senior management of financial
institutions and intermediaries, including major US banks, mutual
funds, insurance companies and healthcare entities on a variety
of strategic, economic/financial and organizational issues. Mr.
Kim holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics and Government from Wesleyan
University. Mr. Kim has been quoted in leading business
newspapers and journals, including the Wall Street Journal, Dow
Jones Newswires, Inc. Magazine and Institutional Investor. Mr.
Kim is currently working on a PIPEs reference book (as co-editor
and contributing author) to be published by Bloomberg Press in
August 2003 titled: PIPEs: A Guide to Private Investments in
Public Equity.