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).

The director/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.

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)