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Join us for an upcoming program in The Korea Society’s Young Professionals Network: Lessons Learned series, presented in partnership with the Korea Finance Society (KFS).

This program features Karen Choi, Partner at Capital Group, who will reflect on her professional journey and share lessons from building a long-term career at the highest levels of the global finance industry. She will offer candid perspective on leadership and the realities of sustaining a career while balancing competing priorities, with insights for young professionals as they consider the intersection of growth and purpose in their own careers.

The discussion will be moderated by Sandra Schubert, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. Drawing on shared industry experience, the conversation will be followed by a Q&A and networking session, offering an opportunity to engage directly with the speakers.

The Korea Society is pleased to present this Young Professionals’ Network event in partnership with the Korea Finance Society (KFS). KFS seeks to build a community to promote the advancement of Korean and Korean-American financial professionals in the United States through networking, education, and mentorship.

 

 

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YPN Lessons Learned with Karen Choi

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | 6:00 PM (EST)


 The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

 

About the Speaker:

 

Karen Choi is a partner and fixed income portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 27 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 17 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, as a fixed income investment analyst, Karen covered utilities, regional banks, and non-bank financials in the U.S. Prior to joining Capital, she was a senior vice-president and fixed income analyst at AllianceBernstein and before that with Prudential Financial. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Wellesley College. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Karen is an appointed member of the Edison Electric Institute Wall Street Advisory Group (WSAG). Karen is on the Board of the New York Women’s Foundation and previously served as Co-chair of the Board, and she is also active in local and global non-profit organizations. Karen is the co-founder and organizer of Women in Power and has chaired one of the inaugural inclusion committees in her workplace. Karen is also on the Board of Trustees at the Horace Mann School.

Karen resides in CT with her husband/partner and four daughters.

 

 

About the Moderator:

 

Sandra Schubert is a private wealth advisor in Consumer and Wealth Management (CWM), where she advises ultra high net worth families, endowments and foundations. She is a member of the Private Wealth Management Advisors Council, co-chair of the CWM Asian Network and serves on the firmwide Asian Network Steering Committee. Sandra joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an associate and was named managing director in 2021.

Prior to joining the firm, Sandra was a media and telecommunications strategy consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. She spent several years in Asia and France establishing the ELLE franchise for Seoul, Korea.

Sandra is a trustee and former Investment Committee chair of the Brooklyn Public Library. She is also a trustee of the Korea Finance Society and former advisory board member of Concordia Conservatory.

Sandra earned a BA in Political Science and French, magna cum laude, from Middlebury College in 1994 and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.