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Soo Kim

Managing Partner, CIO Standard General 

Investor & Strategic Business Leader 

Soo Kim is the founding partner of Standard General and is the firm’s managing partner and chief investment officer.  

Since 1997, Kim has been investing in special situations strategies, including as co-founder of Cyrus Capital Partners from 2005 to 2007, and at Och-Ziff Capital Management from 1999 to 2005. At Och-Ziff, he was a principal and co-founder of its fixed-income business. Before joining Och-Ziff, Kim was an analyst for the Capital Management Group at Bankers Trust Company, from 1997 to 1999. 

  • He is currently chairman of the board of directors of Bally’s Corporation. Formerly known as Twin River Worldwide Holdings, Inc., Bally’s owns and operates several casinos in the United States.  

    Kim is also a director of Pursuit, director and treasurer of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and president of the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.