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Yigal Erlich
Founder & Managing Partner/The Yozma Group
Yigal Erlich is the founder and managing partner of the Yozma Group a venture capital company in Israel. Mr. Erlich is considered as the founding father of the Israeli venture capital industry and one of the most prominent figures in the Israel high-tech arena. At the beginning of the 1990s, Mr. Erlich established Yozma, which was the first VC fund, sponsored by the government of Israel.
Following its privatization in 1997, Yozma joined forces with the Ofer Group to establish Yozma II and Yozma III.
The group managed over US $ 220 million and has invested in over 45 Portfolio companies.
Between 1984 and 1992, Mr. Erlich served as the Chief Scientist of Israel's Ministry of Industry and Trade. In 1991 Mr. Erlich started the Technology Incubator Program that led to the creation of 24 Incubation Centers throughout Israel, as well as international R&D agreements and other programs.
Mr. Erlich is the former deputy chairman of the National R&D Council of Israel, the Chairman of MATIMOP, Israeli Industry Center for R&D, and the former Chairman of the Israel Venture Association. Mr. Erlich serves as a board member in several high tech companies as well as on Hadasit – the TTC of Hadasa hospital in Jerusalem. He is also a board member of the Russian Venture Company (RVC), which is a $1bil government Fund of Funds.
Mr. Erlich holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry and an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. | |
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ROB CHANDHOK
President/Qualcomm Internet Services
Rob Chandhok is president of Qualcomm Internet Services and senior vice president of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI). Chandhok is responsible for aligning QTI’s hardware, software and services initiatives by driving the innovation and development strategies of QTI’s mobile software technologies. This includes the integration of mobile operating systems, and the applications written to them with the QTI’s industry-leading chipsets as well as driving the advancement of QTI products and enabling technologies that enhance the performance of QTI’s client and server platforms.
Chandhok also serves as president of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of QTI focused on mobile open source contributions. In this role, Chandhok drives the strategies and development for enabling and optimizing open source software with QTI technology, and for relationships with the broader open source community.
Previously, Chandhok spearheaded the strategic development for some of Qualcomm’s most significant projects. He was a key member of the management team that developed and launched the company’s Brew mobile software business, and he also led engineering and market development efforts for QChat, VoIP push-to-talk over CDMA IP data, a technology subsequently licensed by Sprint-Nextel. Also, as vice president of engineering and market development, he acted as the chief system architect for MediaFLO.
Prior to that, Chandhok served as chief product officer of SunRocket. He established the company’s San Diego offices and brought his vision for IP-based home-centric data communications products and services to the company.
Early in his career, Chandhok worked as a research computer scientist for more than 10 years at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. His work was published in the research areas of programming systems and computer-supported collaborative work. In 1993, Chandhok served as president of Within Technology, a company he founded to commercialize research and new product development in the area of computer-mediated communication.
Chandhok holds 22 patents in software technologies and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. | |
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Dong-Wook Kim
President/KISDI
1987 - 1993 Ph.D. in Policy Science, Ohio State University
1982 - 1984 M.A. in Science of Public Administration, Seoul National University
1978 - 1982 B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University
2013 - Present Member Government 3.0 Advisory Board, Ministry of Security and Public Administration
2013 - Present Member Special Committee on Creative Economy, Federation of Korean Industries
2011 - Present Advisory board member Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning
2011 - Present President Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)
2011 - 2011 Member Deliberation Commission on Broadcasting Development Fund Management
2011 - 2013 Non-Standing Director Korea Creative Content Agency
2010 - 2012 Non-Standing Director Korea Education & Research Information Service
2009 - 2011 Chairman Standards Commission on Internet Address Policy
2009 - 2012 Member Information Disclosure Committee
2009 - Present Member ‘The e-Bridge’ Editing Committee, Korea Information Processing Society
2008 - 2013 Director Informatization Promotion Division, Policy Advisory
Council for Ministry of Public Administration and Security
2008 - 2013 Member Presidential Council for Future & Vision
2006 - 2007 Member Broadcasting and Telecommunication Convergence Promotion Committee
2005 - 2008 Member Special Committee on e-Government
1994 - Present Professor Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Commendation (Jan. 2011)
Red Stripes Order of Service Merit for contribution to e-government (Sep. 2007)
President’s commendation for contribution to informatization (June, 1998) | |
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Ji-Hoon Rim
Founder & CEO/K Cube Ventures
VC at Softbank Ventures Korea
Boston Consulting Group
CEO staff at NHN(Naver)
Jimmy Rim is a founder & CEO of K Cube Ventures, an early stage VC based in Seoul. He founded the firm with Brian Kim, founder and chairman of KaKao who also was a co-founder & CEO of the biggest internet portal NHN.
Jimmy founded K Cube Ventures because he believed Korean startup ecosystem has great talent and infrastructure but lack early stage investors. He is passionate about fostering entrepreneurship in Korea and building a healthy ecosystem. Also, he is very eager to bring Korean startups global. He is usually called as “Startup’s best friend” in Korea.
K Cube Ventures normally invests $100K-$500K at seed stage. (See http://kcubeventures.co.kr/family for portfolio companies)
Before founding K Cube Ventures, Jimmy was a VC at Softbank Ventures Korea, an investment arm of Japanese Telco Softbank. At Softbank, he had a number of successful investments including:
*KINX (IPOed at KOSDAQ market) *Hantec Engineering (IPOed at KOSDAQ market) *Cheum & C (IPOed at KOSDAQ market) *Lotiple (Acquired by Kakao) *SundayToz (the hottest mobile, social gaming company in Korea)
Jimmy also worked at The Boston Consulting Group as management consultant and developed corporate strategies at NHN. | |
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Dong-Hyueung Lee
CEO/Nowprofile
He is currently CEO of Nowprofile.inc ( Smartphone app : QnA, Runpipe, Runpapa, Runch ) and interested in SNS business and StartUp mentoring.
He had started a startup named Cyworld as a co-founder/CEO and contributed to build it as a No.1 korean social networking service in 1999 for 9years.
He had worked for LG-CNS as a software engineer ( LG Electronics Domestic sales support, the IRS projects. ) in 1991 for 8 years | |
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Shin Cho
Director/Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology
Dr. Shin Cho is Director of Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology and a Professor at the Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University. Prior to that, he served as a Managing Director of the Office of Strategic R&D Planning (OSP), Ministry of Knowledge Economy. At the OSP, he was in charge of R&D planning and budget allocation in the IT industry. He also worked for SK Broadband as President & CEO and SK Telecom with various senior positions, managing Internet & Media Group, Strategy & Planning Group, and Marketing Group. His earlier experience includes working at the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) for ten years as Head of the Telecom & Broadcasting Policy Division and the IT Industry Research Division, and Illinois State University as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
1984 - 1989 Ph.D., Economics WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
1977 - 1982 B.A., Economics SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
2013 - Present Director/Yonsei Institute of Convergence Technology
Professor/Graduate School of Information
2010 - 2013 Office of Strategic R&D Planning, Ministry of Knowledge Economy
Managing Director/IT Industry
2008 - 2009 SK BROADBAND, CO., LTD.
President & Chief Executive Officer
1999 - 2010 SK TELECOM, CO., LTD.
Executive Vice President/Senior Vice President/Vice President Served as Head of Internet & Media Group, Strategy & Planning Group, Marketing Group,
Corporate Strategy Office and Industry & Government Relations Office
2007 - 2007 (Concurrent Position) President & CEO/SK Communications Co., Ltd.
1990 - 1999 KOREA INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (KISDI
Senior Research Fellow/Research Fellow
Served as Head of IT Industry Research Division, Telecom & Broadcasting Policy Division,
Regulation Policy Research Team and Broadcasting Industry Research Team
1998 - 1989 ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor of Economics
1981 - 1984 JAEIL INVESTMENT AND FINANCE, CORP.
Junior Economist | |
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Kyu-Ho Kim
Senior Vice President/Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Media Solution Center, Game Service Team
2013 - Current Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Media Solution Center, Game Service Team
2012 - 2013 Bdrive Inc., CEO
2010 - 2012 CEWIT Korea, Vice President
2006 - 2010 NHN
NHN Japan Senior Technical Executive
NHN Hangame Division Technical Executive
2000 - 2006 NCsoft
NCsoft North American Operation, Game Publishing (Lineage and Lineage II)
1997 - 2000 Huundai Information Technology
Hyundai-Universal LLC a.k.a. Animalhouse.com which is a college portal, CTO
Shinbiro Internet Business | |
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Eun-Taek Hong
Executive VP/Kakao
Masters degree in Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism
Bachelor of Arts in Asian History, Seoul National University
2012 - Now VP of Kakao Corp
2012 - 2012 Professor at NHN NEXT
2006 - 2012 NHN Corp
Director of Service Operations
Head of Naver Media Services
Section Chief of Executive Support Team
2005 - 2006 Editor-in-Chief of OhMyNews International
2003 - 2005 Producer of KBIA / Senior producer for Global Journalist Radio (US)
1989 - 2003 Reporter for the Dong-a Ilbo (Korea)
Washington Correspondent, Iraq war correspondent
Staff writer for the social desk and the politics desk | |
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