Kevin is the founder of Genki Advisory, an advisory and investment firm focused on early stage
companies. With a portfolio of over 30 companies, Genki Advisory has invested across the tech,
consumer and healthcare sectors. Representative investments include: Skillz and Sentilink (tech);
BarkBox and Thursday Boot Co. (consumer); and SyncThink and ViiMed (healthcare). Kevin has been a
board member of and an investor in SyncThink since 2014.
For over 20 years, Kevin was employed at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he worked with high tech
companies in the firm’s investment banking division. Kevin served in a number of senior roles in
Goldman Sachs’ New York, San Francisco and Tokyo offices. In 2012, he retired as a Partner and Co-
Head of the Global Technology Banking business. Prior to his time at Goldman Sachs, Kevin worked as a
consultant at Bain & Co. in its Boston office.
Kevin is the Board Chair of Brady, one of the nation’s leading gun violence prevention organizations.
Brady actively partners with national and local organizations to work cooperatively to combat gun
violence. In April 2019, he was appointed by New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy, to Chair the New
Jersey Economic Development Authority, an independent state agency, which oversees the state’s tax
incentive programs as well as other economic and community development programs.
He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Business School (from 2013 to 2017, Kevin was an
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Eugene Lang Center of Columbia Business School). He resides in Short
Hills, NJ with his wife, Jane and their three children.