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Chi-Hua Chien, Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Chi-Hua Chien is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater. Prior to starting Goodwater, Chi-Hua was a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he led early and growth-stage investments in consumer tech platform companies, including Chegg, Inspirato, Klout, Spotify, and Twitter. He started his venture career at Accel where he discovered Facebook for the firm’s Series A investment and worked on investments in Trulia and AdMob.

Before becoming a venture capitalist, Chi-Hua was an early employee or co-founder of four startups. Chi-Hua fell in love with startups at Stanford University, where he earned four degrees and still teaches classes in the Engineering School.

Eric Kim, Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Eric Kim is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital. With a strong background in investment and entrepreneurship, Eric has played a pivotal role in the success of numerous consumer technology companies. Before co-founding Goodwater, Eric served as a Managing Director at Maverick Capital, and throughout his career, he has led early and growth stage investments in notable companies such as Kakao, Musical.ly, Zenefits, and Upsight.

Eric’s entrepreneurial spirit emerged during his time at Stanford University, where he co-founded Biomimedica, and headed business development for NeoPoly, a startup focusing on touch and video technologies for early smartphones. He also cultivated his passion for coding as an undergraduate at Yale University, where he majored in Cognitive Science and was a member of the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos. Eric holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and serves on the advisory board of the Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology, as well as the non-profit board of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.

Coddy Johnson, Partner

Coddy was formerly the President and COO of Activision Blizzard, a leading technology and entertainment company with over 400 million monthly players engaged in global franchises that include Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Diablo, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft. Coddy was also co-founder and COO for Altschool, a Silicon Valley education technology company which raised over $200M to develop personalized, whole-child learning platforms for students and classrooms.

Coddy attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated with honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, going on to work as a consultant at Bain & Company. He serves on the board of the Environmental Defense Action Fund (www.edfaction.org), a leading conservation group, as well as education technology boards.

Hatim Khety, Partner

Hatim Khety helps oversee the firm’s investment efforts across both the early and growth stages. Prior to joining Goodwater, Hatim helped lead the consumer tech investing practice at the SoftBank Vision Fund, where his team invested in and supported market-leading companies including DoorDash, Rappi, Opendoor, Alto Pharmacy, Compass, and Clutter.

Before that, Hatim was Head of BizOps and Strategy at The Honest Company, a DTC e-commerce startup where he oversaw business operations, strategic planning, corporate development, and investor relations. He began his career in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, after which he worked as a private equity investor at Golden Gate Capital. Hatim received a BS in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Jin Oh, Partner

Jin joined Goodwater from a portfolio company Toss, the leading fintech platform in South Korea. He was an executive at Toss spearheading Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Spending four years at Toss, he helped raise over $600 million in equity financing from investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia China, GIC, and PayPal and also led the $300 million acquisition of LG’s payment business unit.

Prior to joining Toss, Jin was a Principal at a private equity fund called NamuCorp, which focused on buyouts of financial services companies. Jin started his career in investment banking at BMO Capital Markets as a member of the Financial Sponsors Group and prior to that, he was at MergerTech Advisors where he focused on tech M&A transactions. Jin attended Boston University, where he was recruited as a Division I Varsity Men’s Soccer Team member.

Vivek Subramanian, Partner & Chief Product Officer

Vivek brings over 20 years of tech operating experience as a C-level exec and Founder. Prior to Goodwater, Vivek helped scale Sonder’s hospitality business to 38 cities. Prior to that, Vivek was the Head of Product at Coupang, the Amazon of Korea, and was instrumental in growing/pivoting the business from a daily deals business to a multi-billion dollar vertically integrated eCommerce and delivery business.

Vivek also co-founded CalmSea, a marketing SaaS company that was acquired by Coupang. Vivek holds 4 educational degrees (too many to be useful according to him) – an MBA from UC Berkeley, a Masters in Computer Science from UT Austin, a B.S in Computer Science and Masters in Chemistry from BITS, Pilani in India.

Scott James, Partner & COO

Scott James is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer at Goodwater Capital, where he drives day-to-day operations at the firm and oversees key strategic initiatives. Prior to Goodwater, Scott worked at several venture capital firms and began his legal career at Gunderson Dettmer, where he advised early- and growth-stage startups and leading venture funds on financings, M&A, capital-markets transactions, and corporate governance.

Brooke Beck, Partner & Head of Investor Relations

Brooke Beck has over 20 years of experience leading capital formation, investor relations, and marketing functions for top-tier asset management firms. Most recently, she served as Head of Client Relationships and Fundraising at Balyasny Asset Management/BAM Elevate. Prior to BAM, Brooke spent five years at Coatue, where she co-led the investor relations team during a period of unprecedented growth and acted as the primary product manager for all growth equity and venture capital fundraising.

Brooke has also been a Partner at Marcato Capital Management, Och-Ziff (since renamed to Sculptor), and GoldenTree Asset Management. Brooke holds a BA from Penn State University and spends much of her time outdoors or playing sports with her family.