Tim Kao

Director

Tim has provided investment banking services to consumer, health care, media, education, business services, general industry and technology companies since 1999. Prior to joining East Wind in 2024, Tim served as Vice President in the Consumer Healthcare Investment Banking team at JPMorgan NYC and Tokyo offices and as Director at Atlas Advisors in NYC. At previous firms, he advised on M&A, Private Placement, Equity Capital Market and Debt Capital Market transactions worth more than $16.5 billion, for private and public company clients such as HJ Heinz, Grupo Bimbo, Ajinomoto, Kagome, Boston Scientific, Dasym/Endemol, Bosch Automotive System. Prior to JPMorgan, Tim held summer analyst positions at JPMorgan Frankfurt office, Merrill Lynch Tokyo office and Roland Berger Munich office, the leading management consulting firm in Germany.

Tim graduated from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science with BS in Operations Research and received a BS and a MS in Economics from Universität Heidelberg, Germany and Certificate of Japanese Studies from Keio University Tokyo Japan.