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)

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)