Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has appointed Suyi Kim as senior managing director and global head of private equity, effective September 15. Kim will continue to be a member of the senior management team.

Kim will lead the private equity (PE) department, which makes private equity investments globally, both directly and with partners. The PE team focuses on close alignment of interests between shareholders and management, delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns over extended time horizons. The team maintains relationships with 160 private equity fund managers and other specialized partners. As of March 31, PE managed C$125.1 billion (US$100.18 billion) in assets.

Most recently, Kim served as senior managing director and head of Asia-Pacific, responsible for leading CPP Investments’ activities in the region and overseeing its portfolio of Asia-Pacific investments.

Kim joined CPP Investments in 2007 after gaining global private equity experience at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and The Carlyle Group. She also worked at McKinsey & Co in various Asian countries and at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

She opened the Hong Kong office in 2008 and launched and led CPP Investments’ PE business in Asia before taking on her current role.

Kim holds a BA in Economics from Seoul National University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is a certified public accountant.

She currently serves on the board of directors of Hong Kong Broadband Network. She is also on the products advisory committee of the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong and sits on the board of Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and Junior Achievement in Korea.