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Michael Kim is a CTO at the Hartford
Michael Kim.
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Michael Kim.
Michael Kim is CTO for property/casualty insurance operations at the Hartford (Hartford, CT) insurance company.He's responsible for application and information architecture, the "innovation lab" internal IT consulting group, and the company's data warehouse and services.
Originally from Korea, Kim moved to the U.S. as a small boy."As an immigrant, I was typically instilled with values that gave me a hard-work ethic and really made me strive for success," he says.He was competitive in athletics as well as academics, and graduated from Yale University (New Haven, CT) in 1989 with a degree in economics.
After college Kim went into general management consulting, focused on the financial services industry.Along the way he's been a management consultant at several companies, CEO of an early-stage collaboration software company, and a partner at Tillinghast (New York, NY), the global insurance and financial services consultant, where he launched and led the firm's e-business efforts.
Kim has been with the Hartford for four years now, giving full play to his passion for technology and enjoying the company's collaborative work environment."My job is to be sure the people I work with have the support and tools to succeed," he says.