Sam Kim was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) in April 2024 after serving as Deputy Chief Operating Officer since April 2023. As COO, he oversees enterprise-wide investment services and operations, data and technology, and corporate administration. He 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 Applied Research Unit. Prior to joining GIC, Sam was the Asia Pacific Head of Trading & Liquidity Strategies at BlackRock based in Hong Kong. He spent nine years with BlackRock in Tokyo, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. Before joining BlackRock, he co-founded Colden Capital, an event-driven hedge fund, and worked in equity derivatives structuring at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust.

Mr Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, in Philosophy from Harvard University.