Edward H. Kim

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Edward H. Kim
Nationality American
Alma mater MIT
Occupation Stock market adviser
Employer IssuWorks
Title COO

Edward H. Kim is an American markets analyst. He has held executive and senior advisory positions with companies including Prudential Securities, PurchasePro.com, and Grant Thornton. He is a former senior vice-president for NASDAQ and is currently the COO of IssuWorks.[1]

Education and early career

Kim graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BS in Materials Science and Engineering. Following graduation, Kim initially worked an equity capital transactions analyst for Prudential-Bache Capital Funding and later as a research Robertson, Stephens & Company. He subsequently worked at Lehman Brothers and Hoenig & Co. on the equity trading desks. He later returned to Prudential Securities as a vice president of high technology investment banking. In that position he worked with IT and ecommerce companies on both public and private equity capital financings.[2][3]

PurchasePro.com

After Prudential, Kim worked for PurchasePro.com. There he was senior vice-president for corporate operations. In this position he was in charge of facility leasing, expenses, HR, and telecom.[3][4] Kim also helped to take the company public in 1999, when it was listed on the NASDAQ.[2][5] He held the position until 2001, after which he went on to work at NASDAQ himself.[6]

NASDAQ

In early 2002, Kim was hired by the NASDAQ exchange's corporate client group as a senior vice-president, overseeing new product development and business initiatives developed for listed companies.[7] He was hired in order to increase the competitiveness of the NASDAQ among exchanges, and expand the exchange's market share.[8]

Grant Thornton

Following his position at NASDAQ, Kim became a senior adviser in capital markets for Grant Thornton, issuing policy documents regarding IPOs and the development of the stock market in the US. The reports, co-authored with David Weild IV, cautioned the US markets against moving forward in the same direction it had since the 1990s. They instead called for changes in the legislation surrounding IPOs as well as changes in how companies handled their IPOs in order to keep the market evolving.[9][10] Kim said of reversing the decline IPOs had experienced in the mid-2000s that, "A vibrant IPO market in which companies of all sizes can raise capital efficiently and be supported in the public equity markets, is critical for the macroeconomy. It will not magically return without thoughtful, decisive action."[11] Kim also stated that small-cap IPOs had been disproportionately affected by the market,[12] and his work has been cited in the US Congress during debates regarding IPO reforms.[13]

IssuWorks and writing

Following this, he was one of the co-founders of IssuWorks.[14] Kim is currently the COO of the company.[15] Kim co-authored a chapter in the book Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street Are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio with David Weild in 2012.[16]

References

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