Kim Syman joined New Profit in 2002, bringing with her more than ten years of experience in the nonprofit sector. As Partner and a member of New Profit's senior management team, Kim anchors relationships with portfolio organizations as well as key individual and institutional investors. She co-directs New Profit's work to convene social entrepreneurs and other leaders in philanthropy, policy, academia, and the private sector to find innovative approaches to creating broad-scale social change. Kim is also leading New Profit's campaign to develop the resources to triple the size of its portfolio from 9 to 18 organizations between 2005 and 2009.

From 1999 through 2002, Kim served as Executive Director of the Green Mountain Horse Association in Vermont, where she worked to redevelop the 75-year-old organization as a key link between the $80 million equine industry and the movement to ensure sustainable open spaces. Kim worked for City Year, Inc., a national service program for young people ages 17-23, from 1995-99. At City Year, she served as interim National Development Director, led an effort to generate resources to grow City Year's network across the country, and was a member of the team that developed the concept and model for New Profit.

From 1991 through 1993, Kim led a citizen's group addressing the needs of disadvantaged populations in her New York City neighborhood while working in television news and documentary production. After interning at the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, she served on the production team for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' Emmy award-winning documentary series on American health care policy and later worked as a freelancer for the British Broadcast Corporation in New York, and on other news and documentary television projects.

Kim currently serves as a member of the Kids Voting USA Board of Directors and participates on the strategy and fundraising committees of several other Boston-based and national nonprofits.

Kim received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley and completed a master's course in Social Anthropology at Oxford University.