Nelly Kim

Principal & Founding Member

Nelly Kim is a founding member and Principal of Hollywood Ventures Group and Senior Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Entertainment Media Ventures, Inc. EMV is active in media investment and strategic advisory work, with a particular focus on branded entertainment, innovative technologies, and entities currently impacting the traditional boundaries of business, media, and entertainment.

Ms. Kim brings more than fifteen years of business development and strategic advisory experience to EMV, where she provides strategic advisory services to companies ranging from private equity and venture capital firms to Fortune 500 companies, and early-stage companies in media, technology, and healthcare. During her time at EMV, Ms. Kim has consulted on large-scale M&A transactions in the media, entertainment, and technology sectors. managed multi-million dollar, transmedia digital marketing initiatives for several leading brands and has forged strategic partnerships with celebrities and leading media, sports, and entertainment leaders on behalf of her clients. In 2016, Ms. Kim became one of the founding members and Senior Marketing Advisor of SleepScore Labs, an industry leader in the sleep and wellness space.

Prior to working at Entertainment Media Ventures, she worked at Meredith Xcelerated Marketing, an interactive advertising agency ranked as one of the top 50 interactive agencies by AdWeek and Ad Age magazines. Clients included: Acura, Nestle, ING, Cessna, Ford, KB Home, Allergan, and Lowes. She honed her marketing and licensing skills at Original Retrobrand, where she worked with trademarks of over 200 Universities, NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB teams, and various pop culture brands worldwide. Nelly has also served as Advertising Director at Shavua Israeli, where she worked closely with leadership to execute campaigns, deliver marketing solutions, and strategically drive sales. She also oversaw the development and creative execution of advertising schedules and launched the publication’s first English edition. With a passion for branding and advertising, Nelly began her career as an Account Manager at The Los Angeles Business Journal where she specialized in negotiating and creative execution of long-term, multi-platform campaigns for leading companies including Bank of America, American Express, Prudential, Los Angeles Metro, and Sprint.