Richard Kim is a founder and the CEO of Gangnam Spice LLC, a brand new Korean restaurant and food company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Richard started Gangnam Spice in 2023 with his wife, Jiyeon Lee, to share his love for Korean food with his American friends. Prior to starting Gangnam Spice, Richard served as the Principal AI Scientist of DAIZ, Inc. a Japanese bioengineering food company where he was in charge of developing AI models used in research of phytochemical. Early in his career, Richard also spent 7 years in the investment banking and hedge fund industry as a equity research analyst in charge of analyzing broad spectrum of industries and building valuation models of the companies that he analyzed.

Richard earned his Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Los Angeles and hold Master’s of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab where he specialized in applied mathematics research in computational social sciences. He holds the CFA charter from the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute.