CEO · Leader Transcend LLC · Vistage Chair
Nearly three decades of building, scaling, and successfully exiting businesses across industries, cultures, and continents. Born in Malaysia and fluent in five languages, Fenella brings a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience, global perspective, and an engineer’s disciplined approach to complex challenges.
Today, she draws on that experience to help CEOs, founders, and senior executives navigate the decisions that matter most — from growth and transformation to succession, transition, and what comes next.
Because she doesn’t just advise leaders from the outside. She’s sat in the seat.
Fenella Kim is a global entrepreneur, investor, and leadership mentor with nearly three decades of experience driving business transformation. As CEO of Leader Transcend LLC and a Vistage Chair, she leads confidential peer advisory boards for CEOs, Key Executives, and Trusted Advisors — empowering leaders to unlock their potential, accelerate sustainable growth, and build meaningful legacies.
Her engineering foundation, global perspective, and entrepreneurial roots guide her approach to leadership development, strategic decision-making, and people development. Her mission is to pay it forward by growing companies that make a meaningful impact — on people’s lives, in communities, and across the world.
“I built these boards because every leader deserves the room I wish I’d had — confidential, challenging, and filled with people who tell you the truth.”
— Fenella Kim, MBA, CPP · Three-time Exited CEO · Vistage Chair
As a Vistage Chair, Fenella facilitates monthly confidential peer advisory sessions where CEOs and executives come together to address their most pressing challenges — and leave with the clarity and confidence to act. She combines peer advisory sessions with executive coaching and access to world-class speakers.
Fluent across cultures and markets
Global roots, New York leadership
Managed across 23 U.S. states
Fintech, consumer products, education
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