Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
CharacTour
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Female
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CEO Kimberly Foerster had the "lightbulb" moment to found CharacTour when she helped her friend with her Match.com profile. By focusing on consumers' personalities as many dating sites do, she thought she could solve a big problem for consumers: "bad dates" with entertainment when time, money, and emotion is wasted on
movies, TV shows, and books they don't ultimately connect with.
Before founding CharacTour, Kim was a Managing Director at Perseus, a Washington, D.C. private equity firm where she worked for eight years. While at Perseus, she was actively involved in four publishing-related acquisitions and was a Board Member of Perseus Books. Prior to Perseus, she worked at two other private equity firms – the Audax Group and Castle Harlan. Early in her career, Kim worked in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs and the strategic planning group of PepsiCo. Kim received her MBA from Kellogg and her BA in English from Rice University.
