Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Midas List 2014, 2015 (ranked 84th as top dealmaker)
★National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Stanford
★Global Venturing Powerlist 2023
Notable Facts
→Former Managing Partner at SV Angel, invested in Twitter, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Snapchat, Stripe
→Co-founded Refactor Capital in 2016 focusing on healthcare and biology investments
→Currently Head of Samsung NEXT and EVP at Samsung Electronics since February 2021
→Survived Stage IV Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 24, advocates for cancer research
→Early Google employee, founding member of New Business Development team
→Manages $225M in assets under management across multiple funds
→Korean-American investor who doesn't speak Korean but leads Samsung's global investment arm
→Educational background: JD from NYU, MS Electrical Engineering from Stanford, BA from Johns Hopkins