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New Trustees Elected This winter, the Loomis Chaffee Board of Trustees elected two new members: Bonchun “Brian” Koo of Seoul, South Korea, and James R. Walker ’91 of New York City, New York.
BONCHUN “BRIAN” KOO
JAMES R. WALKER ’91
Seoul, South Korea
New York, New York
The school’s first international Trustee, Brian is the father of sophomore Dylan and is the CEO of LB Investment, a venture capital firm, and LB Private Equity, both based in South Korea. He also manages LB Asset Management, a real estate investment firm, and LB Semicon and LB Lusem, both manufacturing companies. Brian has served as a board member of Daum Kakao and as the head of Young President Organization Korea. Prior to joining LB Investment in 2003, Brian was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a researcher at the Korea Development Institute, a government economic think-tank.
James was a three-year student at Loomis Chaffee from Lynchburg, Virginia. After graduating in 1991, he attended the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in history. Currently the global head of investments at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in New York, James has been with the firm for the past 20 years. He was previously based in Geneva, Switzerland, as head of investments for private clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Prior to that, James lived in San Francisco, California, and worked as head of investments in the western United States and head of fixed income for J.P. Morgan’s western U.S. operation. Earlier in his career, James was a portfolio manager, running J.P. Morgan’s California Tax Exempt Bond Fund. He first joined the company as an analyst on the municipal trading desk in 1996 after briefly working in a customer service role at Merrill Lynch.
Brian earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Seoul University and both his master’s and doctorate in economics from Cornell University. Committed to various educational institutions, he serves as the head of the Cornell Club of Korea and as a trustee of Seoul International School. He resides in Seoul with his wife, Sung Eun “Lee” Lee. In addition to Dylan, Brian and Lee have two older daughters, Jean Young and Ha Young.
James and his wife, Amy Lowenberg Walker, live in New York City with their two children, Bennett and Penelope. James’s brother Douglas is a member of the Loomis Chaffee Class of 1995.
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