S. John Kim is the managing partner, global practices of Heidrick & Struggles based in the firm's New York City office. John brings to Heidrick & Struggles more than a decade of executive recruiting experience, and provides human capital solutions and market and competitive analysis to financial institutions globally.
Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, John was global head of capital markets at another international search firm based in New York. He has completed a number of senior-level searches across sales, marketing, structuring, origination, trading and research groups among all asset classes, including equities, corporate bonds, government and agency bonds, asset-backed instruments, mortgage backed securities, foreign exchange, commodity, derivatives, structured finance and futures products on behalf of financial institutions around the globe.
Previously, John was a senior consultant with another large executive search firm based in New York. He focused on executive recruitment in the derivatives, structured products, equity and fixed income sales and trading in New York, London, and Hong Kong. John has also held senior positions at other search firms. During this period, John spent three years in one of the firm's Seoul, Korea office specializing in senior-level executive search across a number of different industry sectors throughout the Asia Pacific region.