Charles Kim
Charles Kim is the Founder and CEO of Crave Global, Inc. CRAVE is the first end to end solution for International Celebrities to create a transactional revenue landscape for 1.5 billion Chinese Consumers.
Crave provides users with an unparalleled experience: combing proprietary access to top celebrities, influencers, and athletes with seamless in-app transactions for exclusive merchandise produced by one of the most robust supply chains.
Charles Kim is also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Extol Capital. Extol Capital is a US based growth equity firm that invests in consumer-focused technology companies in the United States and Asia. We are unique in our unparalleled ability to accelerate our portfolio companies into the Asian Region in order to drive superior returns.
Charles is a seasoned finance professional with 20+ year experience and deep domain expertise in asset finance, project finance, private equity, M&A, capital markets and sales and trading. Noted for ability to provide creative solutions for partners and clients under special situation and his in-depth understanding of Asian capital markets and extensive network with banks and investors and successfully syndicated over 100 deals for the last 20 years in Korea, Japan and China. Charles has extensive experience in negotiating, establishing and growing international joint ventures in emerging markets.
For over 8 years, Charles was the head of US for China Renaissance Group. China Renaissance (“CR”) is a leading financial institution that combines private placement advisory, M&A advisory, direct investment, equity underwriting, sales, trading and brokerage, research, structured products, asset management, wealth management and other financial services. Charles worked on various deals including raising money for Bytedance (TikTok), Meituan, Didi Taxi, Tencent Music, Alibaba, JD etc.
Previous to China Renaissance, Charles was Managing Director of Mirae Asset Securities, the largest asset management company in Korea. Charles was a Managing Director and Head of Equities for Lehman Brothers Korea. Charles was a Director with Deutsche Bank in New York. He was a Director of Asian Equities with JP Morgan and Jardine Flemings in New York. Born in Busan, Korea, raised in Boston and received his BA from Brandeis University in Boston.