David Kim

30 Years · 4 Languages · 7 Countries · $2B+ Deployed

David
Kim

★ Top 27 Voices — Asia's Startup Ecosystem · 2025

I step in where strategy ends and execution breaks.

Publishing across Asia's 4 major language markets — translating one idea across borders.

I-Banker Turned Tech Journalist
Strategic Narrative Filmmaker
CEO's Growth Execution Partner

Three decades closing deals across Asia taught me one thing: capital doesn't move on technology. It moves on how people experience the story around it.

From structuring $2B+ in investments at GE Capital and Korea Development Bank, to interviewing 150+ CEOs on camera, to producing a CES 2025 Innovation Award film in 90 days — I've built a career at the intersection of capital markets, storytelling, and narrative filmmaking.

These days I sit with CEOs through the part most advisors skip — the execution after the strategy deck closes.

$2B+
Deals Structured
150+
CEO Stories Told
7
Countries Operated
4
Languages Spoken

"The bottleneck migrated from the lab to the deployment environment. Most organizations are still staffed for the old bottleneck."

What I Do

Four Pillars of 10× Growth

01
Growth Execution Coach

Proven track record scaling businesses internationally through business development, M&A, joint ventures, and market entry strategies across six Asian markets.

02
Strategic Content & Media

High-impact brand positioning through strategic storytelling and investor communications. Contributing to TechNode, e27, and The Korea Economic Daily.

03
Tech Narrative Filmmaker

Producing investor-grade films and brand narratives engineered to move capital and markets. From concept to camera to distribution — in 30 days.

04
Keynotes & Workshops

Speaking engagements for global audiences of senior executives. Topics: 10× Growth Strategy, Cross-border Mastery, Founder Storytelling, Capital Narrative Design.

Ventures & Roles

Where I Build

OPENSEE
Founder
Narrative Reframing
Experience Design
Growth execution studio turning founder vision into capital-ready narratives. Business plans, brand films, and media positioning engineered as a single coherent system.
Northhead Capital
Founder & Chairman
Investment Banking
Hong Kong
M&A and cross-border investment advisory across Asia. 300+ investments. $2B+ deployed. Building relationships between Eastern capital and Western ambition.
CEO TV
Host & Producer
Media · Documentary
150+ founder, CEO, and VC interviews on camera. The art of extracting the story behind the story — and making it move an audience.
Asia Value Creation Awards
Chair
VC & PE · Pan-Asia
Recognizing value creation excellence across Asia's venture and private equity ecosystem. Convening GPs, LPs, and founders at the frontier.

Writing

Where I Think Out Loud

Columnist · "Value Creation"
Named one of the Top 27 Voices shaping Asia's startup ecosystem, 2025
Contributor
Top 5 Most-Read Reporter, 2022
Korea Economic Daily
데이비드김의 "블라인드 스팟" 칼럼
Kenyan Wallstreet
Contributing Writer
Emerging market perspectives from Asia

Career Path

The Arc

Now
OPENSEE · Founder
Growth Execution Studio, Bangkok · HCMC · Hong Kong · Worldwide
HK
Northhead Capital · Founder & Chairman
Investment Banking · M&A across Asia
NYC
GE Capital · Managing Director
Korea and Asia · Capital Markets · Cross-border Transactions
Seoul
Korea Development Bank
Investment Banking · Institutional Finance
Education
Helsinki School of Economics MBA (with distinction)
Korea University · Undergraduate

$2.3 trillion disappears not because technology fails — but because humans don't work the way we design for.

Featured in e27 · Value Creation Column

Selected Work

Proof Points

Ministry of SMEs & Startups · Korea · 2023
Global IR Grand Prize · 1 of 92

Coached a startup from zero visibility to Grand Prize winner. 92 startups entered. One won. That founder was my mentee.

CES 2025 · Las Vegas
Prototype → Innovation Award · 90 Days

Built the entire CES victory from scratch: investor-ready business plan, bilingual launch film, thought-leadership cover stories in E27 and TechNode. Zero to award in 90 days.

Speaking
Global Stage

World OKTA 2025 · Hanoi Keynote Speaker 10× Business Growth Strategy 250+ CEOs  ·  50+ Countries Executive Program (AMP) · University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City Radical Empathy → Experience Design Designing for Local Reality in Global Markets Webinars · Conferences · Executive Forums Cross-border growth & human-centered strategy

e27 · Singapore · 2025
Top 27 Voices in Asia Tech

Named among the 27 most influential voices shaping Asia's startup ecosystem.

Selected engagements →

What They Say

The Boardroom Verdict

Voices from CEOs and investors.

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Publishing across Asia

4 Languages · 70% of Asia's Economic Output · Korean · Chinese · Japanese · English

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what's next.

If you recognize yourself in any of these —

Your strategy is clear. Execution keeps breaking down. Your fundamentals improved. Investors still see the old company. You have 90 days to make something undeniable happen. I work with a small number of founders at a time. → 20-minute private conversation

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