Steven Kim joined JH Partners in 2010. He is responsible for evaluating new investments, working with partner companies, and managing eCommerce initiatives across the portfolio.

He works with management teams at Chefs, Go Smile, Frette and J.McLaughlin.

Steven oversees eCommerce efforts by identifying and sharing across partner companies best practices, vendors and solutions in areas such as:

• Online marketing: paid search, email marketing, search engine optimization,social media, affiliate marketing and content strategy
• eCommerce execution: identifying best-in-class eCommerce platforms; increasing conversions using web analytics, A/B and usability testing
• Strategy, design and development: building personas, site functionality and specifications, sitemaps, wireframing, design comps, development, testing and deployment
• Vendor evaluation: finding the best marketing agencies, web designers, developers, and eCommerce solutions

Prior to JH Partners, Steven was a Vice President at Audax, a Boston-based private equity firm. During his 6 years at Audax, he completed 14 investments in a variety of industries, including consumer, direct marketing, advertising, media, industrial and business services, and was a board member of 6 companies.

Prior to Audax, he was an analyst in J.P. Morgan's M&A group in New York.

Steven received an AB in Economics from Harvard.

• kim [ a t ] jhpartners [dot] com
• linkedin.com/in/stevenkim5