Sam Kim was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) in April 2024, following a year as Deputy Chief Operating Officer. He oversees the firm’s enterprise-wide investment services, data and technology, and corporate administration. Mr Kim also chairs the Corporate Management Committee, which provides strategic oversight for corporate management and business planning. Mr Kim joined GIC in 2018 in Singapore as Director of the Portfolio Execution Group, where he managed the Global Trading Unit, Balance Sheet Management Group, Beta and Asset Rebalancing, and the Applied Research Unit. Prior to joining GIC, he served as the Asia Pacific Head of Trading & Liquidity Strategies at BlackRock. Before joining BlackRock, Mr Kim co-founded Colden Capital, an event-driven hedge fund. He began his career structuring equity derivatives at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank, and has worked in New York, Tokyo, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, cum laude, from Harvard University.