Soo Kim Venkatesan
Vice Chair of CKA Board and
Partner of BFR Partners
Soo Venkatesan is an investor and nonprofit advisor with broad experience in finance, investment and philanthropy. She serves as an advisor and consultant to Trinity Alps Capital Partners and began her investment career as Vice President at J.P. Morgan Capital. In senior roles at the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. and Gordon & Betty Moore foundations, Soo led collaborative partnerships focused on educational equity and STEM initiatives, including helping to establish the National STEM Funders Network. She currently serves on the boards of Council of Korean Americans, San Francisco Opera, and UVA College Foundation’s Benefactor Society. Her prior board roles include trustee at Nueva School, Board Chair at US Squash, Governance Chair at SF Opera, Partnership for Children & Youth, and SF Education Fund. Soo was an Echols Scholar at University of Virginia and earned an MBA with honors at Harvard. She resides with her family in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.