Kenneth Kim

founder & Executive Chairman, Ark Clinical Research

Location: Orange County, CA

Member Since: 2014

Membership Type: Full

Dr Kenneth Kim is a physician, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist.  Over the years, he has founded numerous health care services businesses which have had successful market exits.  He is currently the founder and Executive Chairman of Ark Clinical Research, a nationally recognized clinical research site group.  Two successful companies which Dr Kim founded are WCCT Global, a phase 1 CRO which is now part of Altasciences, and Study Kik, which is now part of Syneos.  

He is currently a strategic investor and also oversees a private allergy and asthma practice in southern California.  He has been featured in CNN, CNN, CNN, CNN, ABC, ABC, KTLA, ABC, ABC (Latino townhall), ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC, and Univision 

He currently serves on the President’s Leadership Council for Searching for Common Ground, the largest peacebuilding organization in the world focused on reconciliation and trust building.  For the state of California, he sits as on the Governor’s advisory council for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM) and co chaired the Equitable Consent working group addressing the need for inclusion and diversity in the informed consent process.  At a national level, he serves on the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service  and Affiliations board.   Locally, he sits on the UCI CEO Roundtable and UCI School of Business Advisory Board.