[1][6] After graduation, Rhee didn't practice law as he had initially planned but instead was with Merrill Lynch's Mergers & Acquisitions Group from 1998 to 2000.
Childs Associates, a Boston-based private equity firm, leaving in 2007,[7] to join a start up that subsequently failed.
[1] In 2009 he founded FirePine Group, an impact investing firm providing family office services, so named because "some pine cones seed new trees only after ... a fire.
His strategy was to develop a core commitment kindness and math: Rhee has said that he sought to manage the company 'like a hedge fund', with the level of mathematical analysis and operational discipline of a blue chip investment firm, while at the same time developing a kind, open, and egalitarian corporate culture.
[4] Rhee also serves as a member of the Advisory Council of JPMorgan Chase’s Advancing Black Pathways,[17] the Governing Committee of the CEO Action for Racial Equity, and the board of directors of Conscious Capitalism, where he serves on the Executive Committee,[4] and a founding member of Entrepreneurship-to-Entrepreurship at Ashoka.