René Kim is responsible for leading a centralized product development group covering the brokerage, individual retirement, trust, education and managed accounts, deposit products for Schwab and its individual investors and independent advisors.

Kim began her tenure at Schwab in April 1999, as head of Retail Core Product Management and Marketing. She has 20 years’ experience in the financial services business. She began her career in consumer banking where she worked in almost all aspects of retail banking and marketing from branch work, to incentive programs, to new product development. She then spent five years managing product development and marketing for small business banking products. She also serves on the board of the Professional Business Women of California organization.

Her educational background includes bachelor degrees in English and Italian and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Davis.

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