Jihoon Kim

Jihoon Kim serves as the Director of the Office of Financial Program Operations (OFPO). Jihoon is responsible for overseeing SBA’s national lending operations, including 504 and 7(a) loan processing centers in Sacramento, California and Hazard, Kentucky; 504 and 7(a) loan servicing and resolution in Fresno, Little Rock, and Herndon, Virginia; and SBA disaster loan servicing and resolution in Birmingham, El Paso, and Santa Ana, California. He is also in charge of managing SBA's $129 billion portfolio of direct and guaranteed loans.

Jihoon first joined SBA in 1994 as a loan officer in the Office of Disaster Assistance and has subsequently served in a variety of roles with the Los Angeles District Office, the Office of Financial Assistance, the Office of Program Systems Management, and the Office of Financial Program Operations.

Jihoon earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.