Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 13, 2003

E.kurt Kim – Private Raise Llc

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. Profile
TWST: Introduce us to PrivateRaise. How would you describe the

company?

Mr. Kim: PrivateRaise, LLC is a private research company based in

New York. We provide our clients with comprehensive