Kevin D. Kim was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to serve as the Commissioner for the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), a dynamic City agency focused on equity of opportunity leading to economic self-sufficiency and mobility for New York City's diverse communities. SBS actively connects New Yorkers to good jobs, creates stronger businesses, and builds a thriving economy in neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

Commissioner Kim is an attorney, entrepreneur, and public servant. As a son of immigrant small business owners, and a former co-founder/operator of several small businesses, he understands first-hand the various challenges small businesses face.

In public service, Commissioner Kim served as the first Asian American commissioner of the New York State Liquor Authority. For more than a decade, he has been a recognized community leader serving on the boards of various non-profit organizations, including the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, Friends of THIRTEEN, and the Asian American Bar Association of New York. He is also a certified community mediator through his participation in the Black Korean Mediation Project. In February 2022, Commissioner Kim was sworn in as a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Commissioner Kim is a proud product of the NYC public school system, having attended K-12 in both Sunnyside and Bayside, Queens, and graduated as part of the first graduating class at Townsend Harris High School at Queens College. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.