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VAC
(Venture Advisory
Committee):
Professionals with
Accomplished
Backgrounds in Their
Respective Fields of
Expertise |
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Raymond A.
Kang/Chairman of INKE-NY,
VAC & CEO of Prodigy
Venture, LLC
Prodigy Venture is a
Cross-border Venture
Accelerator that
provides technology
development and
best-of-breed value
acceleration services.
Our niche specialty is
in building bridges
between Asian
and North-American
companies especially
focusing on
relationships among
U.S., Korean and
Japanese
companies. Our
primary target will be
emerging Korean and
Japanese technology
companies that wish
to set-up
subsidiaries, seeking
funds, strategic
partners, M&A and IPO
exit opportunities in
the U.S.
We also focus on
introducing well
established U.S.
technology companies
to Korea, Japan, China
and
other markets in
Asia, and assist in
setting-up franchise
operations in those
markets and help
facilitate
M&A and IPO exit
opportunities.
He also founded
eTonerExpress Inc. in
1999, B2B eCommerce
Marketplace company,
offering an
array of office
machine supplies. Its
main emphasis is
placed on
remanufactured laser
toner
cartridges. Prior to
this, in June 1998, he
co-founded Deli-Togo.com,
B2C eCommerce based
deli food
service company
which he developed and
implemented the
business model and
launched in New York.
He sold his
ownership interest to
the Company in 1999.
Prior to getting
involved with internet
ventures, Raymond
enjoyed a
distinguished career
as a marketing
director for several
prominent
international
marketing and
advertising agencies
for over 15 years.
He has worked for
such agencies as
Ogilvy & Mather, Foote
Cone Belding, Thomas
G. Ferguson
(division of WPP
group), and BBD&O
among many others. He
has worked on such
accounts as
American Express,
Duracell, IBM, R.J.
Reynolds, Procter &
Gamble and many more.
Since opening
his own Notorious
Advertising Inc. in
1993, he has
successfully serviced
recognizable national
accounts
such as The United
States Postal Service,
Apple Computer, Daewoo
Group, AT&T, Parke
Davis, and
LG Industrial
Systems.
Raymond is one of
the founding member of
KASE (Korean American
Society of
Entrepreneurs) NY,
and chairman of INKE
(International Network
of Korean
Entrepreneurs) NY
Chapter and president
of KOCHAM - VAC
(Korean Chamber of
Commerce, USA –
Venture Advisory
Committee). He is also
member of Korea
Society, Japan
Society, Asia Society,
New York Venture
Group, and Partner of
New York City
Economic Development
Corporation. He holds
BA and master degree
in Advertising
and Marketing
Communication at the
University of Maryland
and the BFA at State
University of
New York - FIT
(Fashion Institute of
Technology).
Richard W. An/Founder,
The Law Firm of
Richard An
Mr. Richard W. An
has been practicing
law, specializing in
business immigration,
corporate and real
estate
law since 1984,
representing high
net-worth individuals
and companies,
American and foreign.
Mr. An has
expertise in
bringing foreign
companies and
executives, managers,
owners and key
employees to the U.S.
by setting up U.S.
entities or
representative
offices. Before
establishing his law
firm in February,
1992, Mr. An
had practiced for
eight years at New
York City law firms of
Shearman & Sterling
and Marks & Murase.
Mr. An graduated
with a Bachelor of Art
degree in History and
International
Relations from The
College of
Wooster in Ohio in
1981. From 1979 to
1980, Mr. An studied
economics and
international politics
at The
London School of
Economics. Mr. An
graduated with a law
degree from New York
University Law School
in
1984.
Mr. An co-founded
Korean-American
Business Network in
New York City with
Raymond Kang (founded
in 1995), a forum of
entrepreneurial
professionals and
businesses of
Korean-American
ancestry. Mr. An is
fluent in Korean and
speaks basic Japanese
and French languages.
Andrew Sungsoo
Kim/President & CEO of
HRCap, Inc.
Andrew is President &
CEO of HRCap (www.hrcap.com),
a recruiting service
provider with offices
in
New York, New
Jersey, San Jose and
Seoul. HRCap is widely
recognized as an
industry leader with
an
unmatched client
list, including such
companies as Samsung,
LG, SK, Hyundai,
Hanhwa, Doosan, Kolon,
Samyang among many
others. Along with the
Maeil Business
Newspaper of Korea,
HRCap is also the
co-organizer of the
Cyber Campus Tour, an
online
recruiting event for
Korean employers and
U.S.-based Korean
candidates. Andrew
also recently founded
KBN (Korea Business
Nexus:www.koreabusinessnexus.com)
to assist Korean and
Korean American
entrepreneurs and
venture firms in
building partnerships
and networks across
U.S. and Korea
markets.
Prior to founding
HRCap and KBN, Andrew
enjoyed a
distinguished career
as a corporate Human
Resources
Management and
Development
specialist. During his
fifteen-year tenure at
LG, he oversaw the
development
of HR management and
training programs for
the LG Electronics and
LG Group Education
Center and
directed corporate
recruiting and HRM
programs for the LG
Group Executive Office
for the Americas.
Andrew is a special
member of KOCHAM
(Korean Chamber of
Commerce and Industry,
USA) and an advisor
for KSEA
(Korean-American
Scientists and
Engineers
Association). He holds
Master degree in
educational
administration from
Seoul National
University, and was a
research fellow for
HRM at Indiana
University.
Sung Lee/CEO and
Managing Partner at
TheResearch Associates
The Research
Associates (TRA), a
privately held market
research and
management-consulting
firm.
Sung has provided
management and
technology consulting
services to
organizations such as
Walt Disney,
the Department of
Defense, the State of
New York, Time Warner,
LG and KTF. Prior to
TRA, Sung founded
and led Walt Disney
Attractions’ new media
marketing group, and
worked with LG Group
as an internal
consultant
and brand manager
for its multi-media
division. Sung has
also worked on
corporate strategy
projects at McKinsey
and change
management/re-engineering
projects at A.T.
Kearney/EDS. Lee
received an M.B.A.
from Columbia
Business School and
an engineering degree
from Carnegie Mellon
University.
Jay Ohm, PhD
Dr. Jay Ohm has
fifteen years of
experience in the
telecommunications
industry
covering consulting,
business analysis, and
systems engineering.
Currently, he is an
independent consultant
with Lucent
Technologies, Prodigy
Venture and has
consulted numerous
companies on market
opportunity
assessment,
strategy,
infrastructure
buildout, financial,
and M&A in both the
U.S. and South
America.
Specifically, Dr.
Ohm advised a diverse
group of companies
with very different
needs. Greenfield
operations
in the buildout of
broadband access and
backbone data network.
Established companies
such as an ILEC
in Brazil ,a gas
company in Colombia,
and a cable company in
Argentina all looking
to leverage their
current
assets by investing
in internet data
center, fiber optic
rings, and WLL.
Enterprise customers
planning to impove
operational efficiency
by investing in
network management,
billing,
and customer care.
In addition, Dr. Ohm
worked with a senior
Lucent team to develop
a bidding strategy for
the auctioning of
Brazil Mirror license
in the wireline
sector. Prior to
joining Lucent, Dr.
Ohm was with AT&T as
a system engineer
and a senior marketing
and business modeling
manager.
Dr. Ohm received an
M.S. degree in
Operations Research
from MIT and a Ph.D.
degree in Managerial
Economics and
Decision Sciences from
Northwestern
University.
Gihong Kim, PhD/CEO &
Co-founder, Dari
Networks, Inc.
Dr. Kim is a sr.
advisor for INKE-NY
and VAC. Dari Networks
is a start-up company
that develops and
markets solutions
for service providers.
Dr. Kim has over 30
years’ experience in
the executive
management
of communication
system companies, as
well as with the
conception and
development of network
architectures,
technologies and
systems. Previously,
Dr. Kim was the vice
chairman, executive
vice president
and cofounder of
Integrated Network
Corporation, and a
department head at
AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
Dr. Kim holds an
M.S. and PhD in
electrical engineering
from the Illinois
Institute of
Technology.
Oonjae Baek/President
& CEO of E-Re
Solutions Inc.
• Birthday: Feb. 5th
1961
• Seoul National
University Electrical
Engineering B.S. (
1980- 1984 )
• Stevens Institute
of Technology PhD in
Electrical Eng. ( 2002
Plan to graduate)
• Dissertation
Topic: Robust Feature
Extraction In
Automatic Speech
Recognition Business
Field:
• E-commerce
Solution Provide
• Speech Recognition
System Development
• Multi-media System
Development (Including
Video Conferencing
System)
• Wireless System
Consulting and
Development
Sonny Whang/General
Counsel for Olayan
America Corporation
Mr. Whang is an
in-house counsel in
the Olayan America
Corporation (OAC). OAC
is the Group's
investment
advisory arm for
North and South
America. It monitors a
substantial investment
portfolio of both
public and
private equities in
a variety of sectors,
including financial,
communications,
consumer, and real
estate.
OAC's 30-person
staff includes equity
analysts, private
placement and real
estate investment
specialists, as
well as legal and
accounting expertise.
The Group's business
development and
corporate
communications
functions also
operate out of OAC's
New York office.
Mr. Whang is also
legal counsel to the
U.S. Taekwondo Union,
the national governing
body of Taekwondo
and a Class A member
of the U.S. Olympic
Committee. Mr. Whang
is the co-author of "Taekwondo
- The
State of the Art"
published in 1999 by
Random House.
Prior to joining the
Firm, Mr. Whang was an
associate attorney
with Fulbright &
Jaworski LLP in New
York
and Bingham Dana LLP
in Boston. Mr. Whang
received his A.B.
degree in East Asian
Studies from Dartmouth
College in 1986, his
J.D. from Cornell Law
School in 1989, and
his Master of Laws (LL.M.)
degree from
New York University
School Law in 1990.
As the son of a
career diplomat for
the Korean government,
Mr. Whang grew up in
Japan, the
Philippines,
Argentina, Korea and
the United States, and
studied and traveled
extensively through
Western Europe.
Mr. Whang speaks
Korean, Spanish and
French with varying
degrees of
proficiency, and is
conversational
in Japanese.
Woo Song/CTO &
Co-founder IntraSphere
Mr. Song is also
co-founder and
Chairman of
IntraSphere
Technologies, Inc., a
leading web
application
development company.
In addition to
successfully building
IntraSphere
Technologies, Inc.
over the last
three years from a
start-up, he brings a
unique perspective on
the use of technology
to enhance trading
and risk management
activities as a former
derivatives trader at
ANZ Bank. Mr. Song has
worked on
various trading
systems including
Summit, Infinity,
Devon and more. With
over 14 years of
trading and
technology
expertise, Mr. Song
will oversee the
development of Reval's
unique web-based risk
management
solution. Mr. Song
attended Stevens
Institute of
Technology and majored
in Computer Science.
Dr. Henry Kim/Venture
Capitalist
Dr. Henry Kim is a
general partner of
Century Financial
Partners, a venture
capital firm based in
Los Angeles,
CA which invests in
middle to late stage
companies, and has
over $200 million
under management. Many
of
Century Financial
Partnersí portfolio
companies have
achieved profitable
exits, including
Clinicor (M&A),
Entertainment Digital
Network (IPO),
Prologic (M&A), and
Rawlings Golf (M&A).
Dr. Kim sits on the
Board of Directors of
six privately held
technology companies
as well as the
California
Business Incubation
Network (an incubator
think tank founded in
1990). His career
includes assisting
Angel
and incubator
investors with due
diligence and
co-investments, and
began in network
administration,
software
development, and
graphics illustration
at such places as
Apple Computer and the
U.S. Federal
government.
Dr. Kim was educated
at Williams College,
received his B.A. from
Boston University, and
earned his M.D. from
the SUNY-Stony Brook
School of Medicine.
Woo H. Shin,
Ph.D./Partner of The
Sage Group
Dr. Shin, Partner of
The Sage Biotech
Group, is the founder
of SnK Associate Inc.,
a business
development
consulting firm in the
healthcare industry,
which worked on
numerous assignments
between
Asia and North
America. Dr. Shin has
a wide range of
experience in the
pharmaceutical
industry covering
areas such as
patents, clinical
trials, regulatory
works, as well as the
drug discovery
processes. With his
broad networks in
science, business, and
financial world, Dr.
Shin not only consults
with small biotech
companies to find
funds, to build
strategic plans, and
to partner their
technologies, but also
assists
investment
organizations to
source and to assess
promising
companies/technologies.
Before founding SnK
Associates, Dr. Shin
was Director of
Business Development
and Operations at the
SK R&D center, where
he was instrumental in
closing two successful
deals with
Ortho-McNeal
Pharmaceutical
and Janssen. At the
SK R&D center, Dr.
Shin started as a
senior research
scientist working on
automation
projects for factory
processes, QC, and
analytical assays.
During this period, he
helped to meet the
numerous
technology transfer
needs of the SK group,
one of the largest
conglomerates in
Korea.
Dr. Shin received a
BS in chemistry from
Seoul National
University, Korea and
a Ph.D. in chemistry
from
Michigan State
University.
Don (Dong-Eon) Ryu,
CPA/Tax Senior Manager
New York Office of
KPMG LLP
Experience:
He joined KPMG in
January, 1994. At
KPMG, he has provided
services to many
foreign-owned trading
companies,
telecommunications
companies, and U.S.
subsidiaries and
branches of foreign
banking
corporations. Some
of Mr. Ryu’s clients
are:
• Companies owned by
Korean companies
• Samsung America,
Inc.
• Pohang Steel
America Corporation
• LG Chemical
America, Inc.
• Korea Telecom
America, Inc.
• ChemCross.com
(Industry: B2B
e-marketplace)
• Companies owned by
Japanese companies
• Spectrum Capital,
Ltd. (Parent: MTBC;
Industry: Financing)
• Telehouse
International
Corporation of America
(Parent: KDDI;
Industry:
Telecommunications)
• JTB USA, Inc.
(Parent: JTB:
Industry: Travel
Agency)
• U.S. companies
• Locus
Telecommunications,
Inc. (Industry:
Telecommunications)
• DBDiscover.com
(start-up; Industry:
Database Marketing,
CRM)
Before joining KPMG,
Mr. Ryu had more than
5 years of diverse
work experiences with
Samsung
Corporation
(1987~1990) and LG
Investment Trust
Management (1990~1991)
in Seoul, Korea.
Education:
Mr. Ryu has a
Bachelor’s degree in
Business
Administration (1984)
and a Master of
Business
Administration
degree (1986) with
concentration in
Finance from Yonsei
University in Seoul,
Korea. Also, he has a
Master
in Professional
Accounting degree from
the University of
Texas at Austin
(1993).
Professional
Affiliations and
Activities:
Mr. Ryu is a
Certified Public
Accountant licensed by
the State of
Washington and a
member of the American
Institute of
Certified Public
Accountants
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