TAB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CSO
- Founding Partner
- Member of the TAB Core
- CSO of the Business Creative Department
Aaron Kim is the CSO of the business creative department at TAB the Momentum, who plays a major role in accelerating our partner companies through Momentum Investment. He is also a co-founder of a venture company, Stolz, dealing with automobile brake tuning system, which is the top selling brand in Korean car tuning business. He has experience as a member of Harris Interactive healthcare business consulting working on multi-national companies such as Bayer, GSK, etc. He was a brand & marketing strategist, and governmental consultant for small to medium sized companies.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Founding Partner
- Member of the TAB Core
Danny Woo is the CEO, Co-founder at TAB the Momentum, and an founding partner at GTR Accelerator. He worked for Samsung, NHN, and NHN Investment as a business developer and a venture capitalist over 10 years. Now he envisions of creating the advanced balance in the industries, and is now enthusiastically trying both to find competent firms with high potentials, and to make global cooperative ecosystem for helping them with successful global business.
He is also an professional angel investor in Korea and in the US, and has invested in over 10 promising startups personally.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Director
Hyunkil YANG is a business development director at TAB the Momentum based in Seoul. He has diverse experience in business field from accounting to strategy planning. His first working experience is junior account in Samsung SDSE felled by duty auditor in Samatat Ltd in the UK. Prior to joining TAB, Hyunkil involved in business development project in developing countries. He also participated in a number of research relating to social impact analysis. Hyunkil studied Business administration in University of Bath in the UK, after that he finished Msc Corporate Social Responsibility in University of Nottingham.
Hanik Ryu is CEO at TMON, one of the top social commerce companies in Korea. He was the first generation of social commerce industry in Korea, being the founding member of Coupang. He started his career at Bain & Company as consultant and later joined TMON handling Business Strategy department of East Asia.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Director
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Member of the TAB Core
- Creative Director - Service
Jee Won Kim is currently a creative director at TAB the Momentum. He manages creative process from creative strategy to art direction. Prior to joining TAB the Momentum in Seoul, Jee Won worked for yU+co in Los Angeles, AKQA NY and Ogilvy & Mather in New York City. He studied Industrial design at Pratt Institute in New York and holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design. He has earned recognition from various organizations such as AIGA, Creative Quarterly, and TDC.
Jee Won has worked on 360 global integrated campaigns on major clients including Google, Hyundai USA, Calvin Klein, IBM, Blackrock, Philips USA and etc. Responsible from building concept and user experience to art direction for prints and digital.
Job Titles:
- Member of the TAB Core
- Venture Partner
Jin Ahn is a venture partner at TAB the Momentum, a founding partner at Bluepoint partners. She worked for SKT C.hoildings, Webzen, Neowiz and Lezhin entertainment as a business developer 18+ years. She was the first generation of online game business in Korea. She was responsible for launching online contents in global market from Asia to North America. She holds a B.S. from KAIST in business administration.
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer
- Software Engineer in
Jin Kim is a Software Engineer in TAB the Momentum. He graduated Computer System Technology (CST) at BCIT, and finished Computer Science master course in Soong-sil Univ. His specialty is web development, machine learning, and distribute computing system. He had joint the expert knowledge acquisition system project in 2016.
Jong-jun Won serves as the CEO and CIO of Lime Investment Management, which he founded in 2013. After the three years since Mr. Won launched his business, Lime has grown into a company with KRW 700bn of asset under its management and with track record of total 50% return.
Previously, Mr. Won was the head of Equity Investment Group at Brain Asset Management, which pioneered Korea's investment advisory services. Prior to joining Brain, Mr. Won was a member of Truston Asset Management's equity investment management team. Mr. Won holds B.A in business administration from Yonsei University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the TAB Core
- Creative Director - Product
JY Kim is IF Award winner and Good Design Award winner with 8+ years of experience. He is currently director of Tangerine Co. Ltd. He manages all the design process from concept development to mass production. He delivers sensitive design with tremendous details, which means that his design works are aesthetically great and practically producable. Formerly he worked at Pentech and Kodasdesign.
Job Titles:
- Founder and CEO of BOGO
- Global Business Advisory
Minsoo Sohn is founder and CEO of BOGO, a trading company established in 1999. He started his career at Samsung C&T corporation managing hide and leather trading department. In 1997, he worked for Canada Trading Group in Montreal regulating hide trading. When he started BOGO, he expanded his business area from hide and leather trading to finished paper importing in Korea and also established financial investment company in 2008.
Job Titles:
- Director of SK Telecom Venture
Patrick Chung is co-founder and was director of SK Telecom Venture which is tributary of USD 100 milion Venture and is subsidiary of leading telecom aompany in Korea. He worked as company lawer of WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, director of Dial Pad Communications (acquired by YAHOO!), and lawer at Kim&Jang, one of bet law firm in Korea.
Peter has more than six years of product development and strategy experience, from interaction design to development and production management in both the US and South Korea. After receiving his MFA in Interactive Design from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2010, he's been doing product-focused production, management, and creative direction in both South Korea and Silicon Valley, most recently at SK Planet. In his spare time he's developing a platform that promises to democratize the organization of location-based sensor information world-wide.
Job Titles:
- Tech Research & Development
- Technology Advisory
A public speaker participated seminars and conferences. A teacher who delivers knowledge on software and system architecture review. An author of several books on Java & Linux. Over 10 years of experience in Java system troubleshooting, performance optimizing, and testing.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
- Senior Business Development Manager
Seil is a senior business development manager at TAB the Momentum. He works closely with early-stage entrepreneurs on product development, business execution, growth strategy and IR strategy to help them attain a long-term sustainability. His previous career includes participating in multiple growth strategy and branding projects at A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting company. Seil also dedicates part of his time helping global independent game studios at GTR Accelerator. He is a proud Canadian soul currently residing in Seoul, and envisions a career in startup founding and funding.
Seil received a B.Com. specializing in finance and economics from the University of Toronto.
Job Titles:
- Member of the TAB Core
- Venture Partner
Suhyun Kim has a wide experience in software technology development and tech startups. After receiving his Ph.D. from Seoul National University, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Now he is working for Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a principal research scientist. He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford AI Lab from 2014-2015. He has been involved in many government projects and programs including working as a mentor of SW maestro program.
In addition to many academic papers, he authored more than 20 patents. He also cofounded a KOSDAQ-listed startup and has been working as an advisor and/or an angel investor of startups.
Dr. Sull served as a Chief Operating Officer of HELIO LLC and also served as its President. Dr. Sull served as Chief Technology Officer of SK Telecom's wireless data business, where he was responsible for launching numerous commercial services ranging from multimedia to m-commerce, for developing Sk-earthlink, Llc's real-time billing and mediation environment, as well as for integrating online and wireless services into a single experience. Dr. Sull holds a B.S. from Seoul National University, an M.S. from University of Michigan in computer science and a PhD from Purdue University in computer engineering.