Partner at Rustic Canyon Partners
Michael Kim joined Rustic Canyon from Accelerator Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based partnership investing in early-stage technology companies (including two companies that went public: Evolve Software and Shopping.com). Formerly an investment banker, Michael was with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Merger & Acquisitions Group in Menlo Park. While there, he was directly involved with 27 announced transactions worth over $77 billion. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Michael was an associate at The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City and also worked at IBM in Armonk, NY. He graduated with honors from Cornell University, received an M.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.
Michael formerly served on the boards of Lead21, an organization that enables entrepreneurs to advocate free market public policy, and 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 $12 billion pension fund. He served as the President of the board for fiscal year 2007, and is currently the Chairman of the Investment Committee.
