February
- Foundation of The Invention Lab.
- Opened GarageBox, the incubation center, selected 6 start-ups that are in early stage.
- *Operated 5 seasons of the GargeBox fostering 23 start-ups until the end of 2019
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March
July
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January-December
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October
January-April
April
June-December
Local company builder in Vietnam
Investment expansion in capital account of The Invention Lab
Acceleration of Cross-Border business
Jin Young Kim
CEO, Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration(Ph.D)
Jin Young Kim, the CEO, was in charge of strategic planning at Softbank Media, a media affiliate of Softbank Korea in 1997, and served as Managing Director of Softbank Research & Consulting. In 2003, Kim established the Roa Group, a consulting firm specialized in the IT market such as wired and wireless communication / device, in Tokyo, Japan (Co-Founder). Kim then established Roa Consulting Korea corporation in 2004, and has led BM development and new business strategy consulting for 14 years for domestic leading mobile operators and device makers. Kim resigned as CEO of Roa Consulting in February 2017, and then founded his second founding, a separate independent corporation, Roa Invetion Lab (company name will be changed to The Invention Lab). He is currently sole CEO of Roa Invention Lab (accelerating brand is The Invention Lab), which fosters and discovers innovative technology-based startups and venture companies.
He has been interested in innovating business models since 2012. He designed and developed a business model game methodology based on gamification techniques, and has run business model planning / development / evaluation programs for large business executives and start-ups / venture companies. He intuited that the boundaries of industry were collapsing due to platform business models, and that traditional business models were being dismantled or the boundaries between industries are crumbling down with the advent of innovative technology startups, and has developed and operated a platform strategy research and workshop programs. The Invention Lab is a company established to directly carry out these efforts and ideas.
The Invention Lab was established to discover- foster -invest in platform startups pursuing technological innovation, and has developed a new start-up accelerating program from the Open Innovation strategic point of view, securing its position as an operating partner, along with large companies in the manufacturing, finance and telecommunications sectors (SK Telecom, KB Kookmin Card, Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Motor Group, CJ Olive Networks, Samsung Fire, Kyobo Life Insurance, Welcome Financial group, etc. Establishment of purposeful angel investment association and joint seed investment with large companies, plan – develop – operate – result measurement- follow-up management of joint Open Innovation Program).
Kim received a Ph.D. with a research on the formation and evolution of two-sided market of mobile service platform (Ph.D., Business Administration, Kyung Hee University). Kim’s books include ‘Interrobang, the Innovation Icon that Changes the World (2011)’, ‘Vertical Platform Revolution (2012)’, ‘Business Model Game (2013)’, ‘Digital Transformation, how will you do it? (2017)’.
Graduated from Korea University, HSE (Helsinki School of Economics) MBA(E-Business major)
Seok-pil Kim
Co-CEO, Venture Partner
Seok-pil Kim, the co-CEO and venture partner, worked as a manager for various business strategy projects in Samsung Global Strategy Group, a think tank organization of Samsung. He is a global sales-marketing-strategy expert who served as president of Samsung Electronics’ European Headquarters and head of global marketing at Samsung Electronics (CMO, vice president). Kim managed global marketing / strategy for 16 years as a head of Samsung Electronics’ UK, France and European branches. He has experience in sales of IT and home appliances such as mobile phones, TVs, and computer monitors. The products which he was in charge of sales took biggest share in the market
Seok-pil Kim, the co-CEO/venture partner joined The Invention Lab as a lead investor in ‘investment association for new technology entering Vietnamese market’, and plays an intermediary role enabling early start-ups of Korea to enter the global market, especially the Vietnamese market emerging as the center of Asia. He is demonstrating his competence in building local corporate networks, international government affairs, and establishing local marketing strategies
HEC(France Grandes Ecole) MBA, Graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (french literature, economics).
Major Career Backgrounds
Samsung HQ Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Chief of Mobile Phone Sales/Marketing Head of B2B, CSR, GR
Samsung Europe President & CEO (2010 – 2013)
Samsung France President (2007- 2010)
Samsung UK President (2005 – 2007)
Samsung Group Chairman’s Office Global Strategist Group (1997 – 2004)
2019/20
– Vietnam Investment Fund for Startup Companies (No. 1 & 2)
2019 VKBIA
– Vietnam Korea Business Investment Association Founding Member
2005-2015 Samsung Electronics
– Corporate Marketing Case: Sports Marketing (Chelsea Sponsorship)
2013 Samsung Electronics Europe HQ
– Samsung Electronics Europe Turnover: Historic Record 39 Billion USD
2012 Samsung Electronics
– Corporate Marketing Case: Sports Marketing (London Olympics)
2007-2010 Samsung Electronics
– Culture Marketing (French Gastronomy , Chef Marketing)
1997-2003 Samsung Global Strategy Group
– Consulting for Samsung Electronics (Digital Marketing Strategy, Market Driven Strategy, Future Business Road Map Strategy)
Sang-Cheol Jung
Venture Partner
Sang-Cheol Jung, the venture partner, served as an executive director at Samsung Life Insurance.is Jung is currently the CEO of Vivacecne and venture partner of The Invention Lab. Jung’s career backgrounds are as follows.
Major Career Backgrounds
Samsung Life Senior Advisor to President
Samsung Global Strategy Group General Manager
Samsung Life Manager (Asset portfolio management, financial products investment)
2000-2017 Samsung Life
– Asset liability management strategy (2000)
– Database marketing strategy (2002)
– CRM(Client Relationship Management) strategy for SLI (2004)
– New market entry strategy into Southeast Asian Countries (2005)
– Investment performance evaluation system (2008)
– Masterplan for asset management business for SLI (2014)
– M&A opportunities in global asset management industry (2015/16)
– Searching for M&A targets in alternative investment sector (2017)
2003-2009 Samsung Group
– Establishment of global talents training program (2003)
– Overseas market entry strategy for financial affiliate (2004)
– Venture Business Strategy (2005)
– E-business strategy for Samsung Finance Companies (2005)
– Voice recognition technology (2006)
– Benchmarking for Best Practices in Global Hotel Companies
– New business development in Middle East for Samsung Engineering
– New business opportunity in Cruise business for Samsung Heavy Industry
2006/7 Samsung Security
– Global partnership development in investment banking business (2006)
– CRM strategy for Samsung Security (2007)
2003 Samsung Fire & Marine
– Overseas business development strategy in Vietnam and Thailand
Jong-Min Ham
Venture Partner
Jong-Min Ham, venture partner, previously worked at Samsung Electronics, Naver and served as the CTO of LF. Ham is currently serving as the director of AIRI (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) and has been an individual angel investor. Ham is a financier of our 4th Vietnam New Technology Investment Association and a member of Investment Committee. Ham’s career backgrounds are as follows.
Major Career Backgrounds
Naver VP / Naver Service Officer, Chief of Portal Service Engineering & Technology
2019-Present AIRI
– Developing AI agent service in Insurance and Finance industry
– Developing state of art Vision technology for object and human behavior recognition
– Developing deep learning based motion capture technology for video production industry
2015-2018 LG Fashion
– Developing the mobile commerce system and achieved sales of $ 400 million
2010-2014 Samsung Electronics
– Developing BigData system and dashboard for sales and retail of Samsung
– Design and development of service softwares for smartphone and TV
2006-2010 Naver
– Developing service platform for all NAVER applications
– Designing and developing all portal services of NAVER
2000-2005 Wisepost
– Developing avatar commerce system and providing avatar MSN messenger service with Microsoft
Jae-min Kang
Vice President, Partner
Vice President/partner, Jae-min Kang, started his career as an engineer at GM Daewoo. He has broadened his understanding of technology, markets and users based on his experience in a variety of industries, from digital products and contents creation, distribution, clothing and to advertising agencies
Based on his career, he focuses on developing BM and service that can maximize differentiated user experience and emotional value, and excels at creating growth indicators for early start-ups, including customer development and refinement of MVP tests. Moreover, he participates in Open Innovation Project of major corporations and leads PoC (Proof Of Concept) tests with the innovation team, start-up team, and the internal business team of the corporations.
He and Jin Young Kim jointly participated in the planning/ development of the ‘business model game’ methodology. He recently developed the lean startup package program, Invention Kit, for in-house ventures and start-up teams’ agile transformation and is expanding its application to large corporate in-house ventures, in-house startup teams, and in-house innovation organizations.
He led large corporate accelerating programs such as Hyundai Mobis M.Start Program and KB Kookmin Card Future9. Kang’s books include ‘Steve Jobs Story Graphics’ (2012, Co-authored by Seok gi Kim) and ‘Business Model Games’ (2013, Co-authored by Jin young Kim).
Graduated from Sungkyunkwan University (Industrial Engineering), SKK GSB (MIT Sloan School) MBA.
Yu-jin Park
Director
Yujin Park has gone through start-ups and large corporate organizations, including working as a service and product planning PM at Energy IoT start-up and as a researcher at the KT Research Institute for Economics and Management. Park specializes in the latest ICT trend research, including performing national project for energy demand management, study on new business model of global telecommunications company and in-house consulting, global media / content provider trends. He has appeared on Live discussion ‘Changes in Korea’s Mobile Ecosystem in 2012’ (KBS1 radio, 2012.12.18), ‘IPTV 6 million! World Changing IPTV’ (Channel IT, 2012.12.02), and has participated in lectures on trends in ICT field such as K-mobile and Korean society as external activities.
He was the PL for the M.Start project that Hyundai Mobis and The Invention Lab promoted auto-tech start-ups for the first time in Korea, leading inbound / outbound deal sourcing and company discovery in the field of start-up acceleration. He is involved in various Open Innovation programs with large corporations, participating in KB FutureNine Season 2 as a panel-couch and the Samsung Fire in-house start-up cultivation-excavation project.
Bachelor of Business Administration at Yonsei University, Master’s degree from Michigan State University(Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media)
Jung-Soo Kim
Team Leader
Jungsoo Kim, the team leader, has excellent capabilities in establishing quantitative growth indicators, including market-specific methodology and simulation of estimated profit and loss, and developing and providing a logical and systematic framework to achieve this. He is currently working with Jinyoung Kim, the CEO, on development of ‘Unit Economics and customer indicator management methodology’ to lead a workshop program for start-ups.
Kim leads a number of workshops on profit model design and market size estimation at the National Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (Daegu-Ulsan-Jeju, etc.), and carries out an accelerating business strategy consulting project of the KT-led Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center. Kim meets start-up teams in a variety of fields by participating as one of the coaches for joint programs by various large corporations/ institutions, such as KB Kookmin Card future 9 season 1 and Korea Credit Guarantee Fund NEST Startup Program Season 1 ~ 2.
Graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Seoul National University
Seung-Hee Han
Innovation Design Team Leader
Seunghee Han, the team leader, is an expert who understands design, planning and start-ups best.
Han has worked on a number of branding consulting and design projects at branding agencies and UX design start-ups, based on her interest in branding and design thinking. Since then, she has participated in the start-up ecosystem and participated in the discovery and coaching of start-ups, opening of a start-up center, program planning operation and managed domestic start-up investment and Chinese IT trend report at Platum, the largest start-up media in Korea.
Her works include <Domestic Startup Investment Trend Report(2015, 2016, 2017)>, <China BAT Investment Trend Report(2014-5, 2016, 2017)>, <Platum China Report(New distribution, smart car, VR, etc.)>.
After joining The Invention Lab, Han leads the designing of Open Innovation Process and developing communication tools, as well as the design and operation of design thinking programs.
Bachelor of Visual Design, Hongik University
Min-su Kim
Senior PD
Minsu Kim (Senior PD) developed his professional career in the field of business development while working at media startups as project manager for media syndication and platform development projects. Also, he provided consultation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Science and ICT. After joining The Invention Lab, he has been focusing on planning and operating Open Innovation programs.
Bachelor of Business Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Ye-mi Yoo
Project Developer
Yemi Yoo, PD, supports management in OI Advisory Group of The Invention Lab. Yoo became interested in startup ecosystem getting to know entrepreneurs and people from the ecosystem while covering KOICA’s ‘CTS (Creative Technology Solution)’ as an intern journalist of KOICA PR Department. Afterwards, Yoo worked as a manager of Hobbyful, managing ordering, production, and CS and experiencing growth of an early stage startup. With these experiences, Yoo is supporting OI Projects and management at The Invention Lab.
Bachelor of Journalism and Broadcasting, Donga University
Minjung Kim
Project Developer
Kim worked in overseas TC(Tour conducter) part for 3 years after graduating from Tourism Management and worked as an overseas IR and forum of Korean venture capital executives. Afterward Kim was recruited to risk team at the venture capital(VC) and responsible for the Korea Fund management as the main coordinator of the venture investee. Currently, The Investment Lab’s investment analysis and management team is mainly responsible for the formation and liquidation of funds, and is also in charge of supporting and post-management of the venture investee, and is trying to support the in startup investment.
Bachelor of Tourism Management, Soongeui Women’sCollege.
Bachelor of Tourism Management, Kyunghee Cyber University.
Sun-mi Park
Project Developer
Sunmi Park majored in secretarial studies and worked as a secretary supporting management at large corporations. Park gained her experience in manufacturing department of a large corporation, as a member of General Management Team. Park also worked as a secretary at L Company supporting corporate projects. Afterwards, Park acquired professional certificates regarding ERP information administrating, computerized accounting and taxation. Park is currently in charge of organizing Investment Association, enforcing investments on startups and managing various administrative work at The Invention Lab.