Before joining Green Visor Capital, Simon Yoo spent nearly 15 years at Citigroup in Tokyo and Hong Kong, rising to Managing Director and Co-Head of Financial Institutions Group for Asia Pacific, and in 2008 he was the sole recipient of The Asian Banker's Promising Young Banker award in Japan. Outside of investing, he has served on Kenyon College's Board of Trustees and on the board of The Kenyon Review literary journal, and he has been recognized for his writing through a Newsweek-published essay and Quora honors including a Top Writer award.