BELL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Technology Market and Strategy Executive
- Vice President of Corporate Strategy Vice President of Marketing & Sales Member of the Board
Dr. Per Hansen is a technology market and strategy executive with 20 years of experience in a wide range of leadership roles from principal researcher, research manager, optical network system architect, sales and business development leader, to product marketer and portfolio strategist. Currently, Dr. Hansen is Vice President of Marketing and Sales and head of OE Solutions America. Prior to joining OE Solutions he has held positions as Vice President of Marketing at Packet Photonics, Vice President of Product Marketing and Portfolio Strategy at Oclaro, as well as senior business development positions at Ciena and ADVA Optical Networking. Earlier he was a co-founder of Photuris, one of the early developers of agile optical network solutions, and a researcher at Bell Labs. Dr. Hansen holds a Ph.D. in Optical Communication from the Technical University of Denmark and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Vice President and General Manager of Optical Transceiver BU at OE Solutions
- Vice President and General Manager of Optical Transceiver BU Member of the Board
Dr. Walter Lee is Vice President and General Manager of Optical Transceiver BU at OE Solutions. He oversees product management/product strategy team, Asia sales team, advanced development team, product development team and derived development team. He joined OE Solutions in 2008 as Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Prior to joining OE Solutions, Dr. Lee was CEO and founder of Biwai system Co., Ltd. where he started his career in 2004 and expanded his leadership experience. During his time at iTEC Technologies Co., Ltd. in 1996, Dr. Lee served as a Research and Development Manager, taking responsibilities for developing optical transceivers and high speed link. He received BS in Information and Telecommunication Engineering from Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea and he holds a Ph.D. in medical optic engineering from Dankook University in Gyeonggi Province, Korea.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Executive Officer Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer of OE Solutions
Dr. YK Park is Chief Executive Officer of OE Solutions and co-founded OE Solutions in 2003. Prior to his career at OE Solutions, Dr. Park held numerous technical leadership positions including Senior Director at NanoOpto Corporation, Director at Agere Systems, and Technical Manager at Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs. During his time at Bell Labs, he achieved numerous technical milestones including the first 1.7 Gb/s 360 km coherent communication field experiment in 1989 and the world's first 10 Gb/s field trial in 1994. He received his BS in Physics from Sogang University and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. Dr. Park has 12 patents and 100 papers published in the area of optical communications. He was named IEEE fellow in 2004 and OSA Fellow in 1997.
Mr. Chan Park started his career from SungShin Cement Company in 1978 after graduating SongGyunGwan University in BS degree of French Language major. He led a stellar career in Sungshin for 28 years until he retired the CEO position in 2006. He participated OE Solutions as a major angel investor in 2003 and assumed the Vice Chair position in 2007. In this executive position, he advise CEO in various Korean public relation affairs and investor relationship.
Job Titles:
- Vice President and Head of Management
- Vice President of Operation
Mr. Charles Kwon is Vice President and head of Management and Manufacturing Division and one of the co-founders of OE Solutions. He oversees manufacturing org, product & manufacturing technology, SCM & procurement, general affairs and HR management since 2017 after his leading roles of PLM(Product Line Management) and QM(Quality Management) as his joining OE Solutions in 2003. Prior to OE Solutions, Mr. Kwon worked at Samsung Electronics for 18 years with his areas of technical expertise of opto-electronics technologies and various sensor designing. From 1997 to 1998, he was a visiting professor at Tokyo Denki University where he taught courses on automobile sensor and its applications. Mr. Kwon holds his BSEE and MSEE from Yonsei University in Korea.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Finance
- Chief Financial Officer of OE Solutions
- Vice President of Finance Member of the Board
Mr. Hwan Park is Chief Financial Officer of OE Solutions. As the CFO, he has driven company's investment areas. He joined OE Solutions in 2003 as Executive Managing Director. Prior to joining OE Solutions, Mr. Park was Director of Logistics and Production Planning, R&D Planning at Hankook Tire Mfg. Co. where he started his career in 1975 and expanded his leadership experience. Mr. Park holds a BS in Chemistry from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
Job Titles:
- Auditor General Member of the Board
Mr. Myunguk An is the Auditor General at OE Solutions. He started his career with Samsung Electronics in 1984 after graduating Kyungbuk National University with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Samsung Electronics' STA Corporation in the U.S from 2000 till 2009. Mr. An joins OE Solutions with expertise in finance and administration and will contribute to enhance management transparency and compliance.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer of OE Solutions Japan
- Head of OE Solutions Japan
Mr. Shigeki Suyama is Chief Executive Officer of OE Solutions Japan. Prior to joining OE Solutions Japan in 2016, Mr. Suyama served as CEO of Digital Grid Co., Ltd where he co-launched in 2012. Mr. Suyama started his career at NEC Corporation in 1976 as an electronic engineer in the field of the optical fiber communications and later appointed as Vice President of the Central Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation in 2007 and led R&D activities of Computer and Communication research area for 5 years. During his time at NEC, Mr. Suyama developed the high-speed optical fiber transmission systems and led development of the broadband network systems for almost 10 years until he took responsibility for business of optical network systems of NEC Corporation in 2001. Mr. Suyama holds B.E. in Electronics Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Job Titles:
- Legal / Compliance Officer at KB Investment Co
Ms. Jongkyung Lee has served as Legal/ Compliance Officer at KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) since September 2009. Prior to joining KBIC, she worked as an attorney at law at a prestigious law firm in Korea from December 2004 to June 2007. She received her training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in Korea from March 2003 to January 2005. Before Ms. Lee started her career in law, she worked as an Account Executive at CheilWorldwide from March 1995 to March 1998. Ms. Lee graduated LL.M. program at Columbia Law School, with a focus on contract, corporations, M&A, securities and antitrust.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Professor of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yun C. Chung is professor of electrical engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), which he joined in 1994. From 1987 to 1994, he was with the Lightwave Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From 1985 to 1987, he was with Los Alamos National Laboratory under AWU-DOE fellowship program. His research activities include high-capacity WDM transmission systems, optical performance monitoring techniques, WDM passive optical networks, data center networks, and fiber-optic mobile fronthaul networks, etc. He has published over 670 journal and conference papers in these areas and holds over 100 issued patents. He has been General Co-Chair of OFC, OECC, APOC, and SPIE, and served as the President of the Optical Society of Korea (OSK). Prof. Chung is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK).