James Kim

James joined Qatalyst in December 2008, and is co-head of its Consumer Technology Group. James previously worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse focusing on strategic advisory assignments in the Technology sector. Prior to Credit Suisse, James worked at Morgan Stanley and at Advanced Technology Ventures, a bi-coastal venture capital firm, focusing on early-stage IT investments.

James has 18 years of experience in investment banking advisory work. His clients have included Kiva, PillPack and Twitch on their acquisitions by Amazon, Motorola Mobility, Fitbit and Dropcam on their acquisitions by Google, Pixar on its acquisition by Disney, Google on its acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick, Priceline on its acquisition of Bookings, HomeAway on its acquisition by Expedia, OpenTable on its acquisition by Priceline, HotelTonight on its acquisition by AirBnb, eBay on its acquisition of Braintree/Venmo, Xoom on its acquisition by PayPal, Verifone on its acquisition by Francisco Partners, Intuit on its acquisition of Credit Karma and the divestiture of its Financial Services Division to Thoma Bravo, Galileo Financial Technologies on its sale to SoFi, Weebly on its acquisition by Square, Shopping.com and Zong on their acquisitions by eBay, Palm on its acquisition by HP, Sony on the divestiture of its Gracenote division to Tribune, Sony on its acquisition of Insomniac Games, Gaikai on its acquisition by Sony, Riot Games on its acquisition by Tencent, Bungie on the sale of a strategic stake to NetEase, PopCap on its acquisition by Electronic Arts, Big Fish Games on its acquisition by Churchill Downs, AppLovin on its acquisition by Orient Hontai Capital, MoPub on its acquisition by Twitter, Flurry on its acquisition by Yahoo!, MyFitnessPal on its acquisition by UnderArmour, Overdrive on its acquisition by Rakuten, Spredfast on its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, Atheros on its acquisition by Qualcomm, Conexant on its acquisition by Golden Gate Capital, Universal Computer Systems on its merger with Reynolds & Reynolds, Elance on its merger with oDesk, Micromuse and Softek on their acquisitions by IBM, Komag on its acquisition by Western Digital and Pliant on its acquisition by SanDisk, among others.

James is originally from San Francisco and received a degree in Economics from Stanford University.