Sean King
Vice President
Sean King joined Park Strategies in February 2006. He’s leading the firm’s push into Asia, currently splitting his time between New York and Taipei, Taiwan.
Before joining Park Strategies, Mr. King spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS). While at Commerce, he headed up all domestic USFCS outreach on U.S. exports to mainland China. On separate occasions, he also joined former Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, former New York State Governor George Pataki and Marriott International, Inc. Chairman and CEO, J.W. Marriott, Jr. on fact-finding missions to Beijing and Shanghai.
Before joining Commerce, Mr. King was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. From 1999-2001, his consulting engagements included, among others, creating a Southeast Asian government export finance blueprint and launching a credit card in Thailand. Mr. King also worked for the New York State Department of Economic Development, on whose behalf he led a February 1997 trade mission to Taiwan.
Mr. King has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. As part of his MBA, Mr. King did a 1998 summer internship for Citibank in Taipei. He is fluent in Swedish.
Mr. King makes regular public speaking appearances. He’s addressed the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business five times in the last four years, including an April 17th, 2008 de-brief on the results of Taiwan’s March 22nd, 2008 presidential election. Mr. King is also a frequent guest on Bloomberg-TV and CNBC-Asia. Since joining Park Strategies, his opinion editorials and letters to the editor have appeared in the Seoul Times, Singapore Straits Times, Taiwan Security Research, South China Morning Post, New York Times, Korea Times, Notre Dame Business, and Topics (the official magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan).
