Kija Kim is President of Clark Hill Partners, LLC, a privately held investment management company with a portfolio of early stage companies including location technology, renewable energy, information security, social networking, bio-pharma, media and real estate.

She is known for keen strategic insight, new product development, market positioning acumen, and public/private company mergers and acquisitions.  She is a proven leader with global management experience in companies providing innovative software and information technology solutions.

Kija was co-founder and CEO of Harvard Design & Mapping Company, Inc. (HDM), an innovation-driven location-based technology and mapping software company in Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC, from 1988 to 2009.  In 2006, she led the successful sale of HDM to the First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a FORTUNE 300 title insurance and real estate information company, where she became President of the HDM division and was a senior member of the First American management team through 2009.

Active in her community, Kija serves on numerous boards of public and private corporations and non-profits institutions.

She has participated in several White House conferences and has received numerous awards and recognition, including the U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year for Massachusetts (2006) and the U.S. Federal Transit Administration Women-owned Business Enterprise Award.

Kija was valedictorian at Seoul National University and attended the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA.  She has completed Executive Management Programs at Babson College and the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.