Jihoon Rim is executive advisor and former CEO of Kakao (KRX:035720), a top-tier technology company in South Korea that is well known for its mobile messenger Kakao Talk, music streaming service Melon, and ride hailing service Kakao Taxi among many successful Internet products the company services. After finishing his term, Jihoon moved to New York City and teaches a newly created course “Managing a High-tech company” at NYU Stern.” While he was leading the company, Kakao successfully expanded its business into finance, contents, and mobility: disrupting the market and delivering services praised by users. Jihoon also heavily invested in Artificial Intelligence and technology, making Kakao the best mobile platform in Korea. The company’s revenue and operating profit doubled during his two and a half years term and acquisition of $1.6B LOEN Entertainment was evaluated as one of the best M&As in Korean tech industry. In recognition of his stellar performance, Jihoon was ranked No.1 in “2017 Korea’s Best CEO” survey, and also was selected as “2018 Korea’s Top 10 Hero” by the biggest business media group, MBN. In academia, he received the “AIS leadership award”, a prize presented to one person a year who demonstrated exemplary leadership and innovation by the Association for Information Systems. Prior to Kakao, Jihoon founded an early stage venture capital, KCube Ventures in 2012. The firm quickly grew to become one of the most reputable VC firms in Korea and was also ranked #7 by CBInsights in the category of ‘2017, The most active corporate venture’ in the world. (KCube Ventures was acquired by Kakao in 2015 and became a CVC.) Jihoon also worked at Softbank Ventures, The Boston Consulting Group, Naver, and Accenture. He has an engineering degree from KAIST.

Minnie Roh is an award-winning veteran journalist. Her career has spanned both network and local television as an investigative producer, reporter and anchor. Currently, she is a correspondent on the syndicated show Asian American Life and was nominated for a NY Emmy award for her story on the Comfort Women of World War II. She covers stories that are important to the Asian American community, from human and sex trafficking exploitation, affirmative action and deportation of undocumented immigrants to profiles of Olympic medalists, Broadway stars and NASA astronauts. Roh started her career in network news, working on shows like the Today Show, Nightly News and Dateline NBC where she specialized in investigative/hidden camera stories and received two Edward R. Murrow awards for her investigative reporting. Roh is also a media and communications consultant. Her company Minnie Media and Productions specializes in thoughtful profile pieces and impactful marketing segments for her clients – nonprofit organizations, international businesses and politicians. She has served as a senior advisor to the President of Arirang TV, South Korea’s only English news and entertainment channel, during its rebranding process and trained the reporters and anchors in the “western style” of broadcast journalism. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Robert Lee

Dan Kraut leads Robert Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. Robert was a Gates Millennium Scholar who graduated cum laude from New York University. At NYU, Mr. Lee worked on a club called that delivered leftover dining hall food to homeless shelters. Over the four years that Mr. Lee was a part of this organization, he learned best practices of operations in delivering food, fostered relationships within the industry, and honed volunteer management skills. After graduating, Mr. Lee worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. before resigning in 2014 to continue his passion of helping the hungry and reducing food waste by working full-time at Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc. Mr. Lee has been honored as a CNN Hero, Forbes 30 Under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship, NYC Food Policy 40 Under 40, and Youth Action Net Fellow.

Celina Lee

Celina Lee is a career coach, podcast host, and lawyer, and is passionate about helping people to pursue their dreams and live a life doing what they love. She coaches many professionals on their career development, and has given speeches and delivered workshops in many countries.

On her podcast, Live Your Dream with Celina Lee, she interviews inspirational people from diverse industries about what they have learned in their journeys in life and career. The podcast has listeners from 80 countries around the world, Celina is the founder Give One Dream, a global movement that inspires people to pursue and achieve their dreams.

She started her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and worked as a corporate lawyer at a law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP in NYC. She is an author of an award- wining book in South Korea, “꿈을 이뤄드립니다” (“Live Your Dream”), a collection of life stories of people who overcame failures to achieve success in diverse industries. Celina received her undergraduate degree from MIT and law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She is a certified professional coach and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). www.celinalee.co

Joseph Juhn

Joseph directs and produces a film, Jeronimo, a feature-length documentary that highlights the history and current state of Koreans living in Cuba. Prior to working on Jeronimo full-time, Joseph was an in-house counsel at the Manhattan-based South Korean government agency (KOTRA) for 4 years where I advised Korean companies and entrepreneurs on US intellectual property and corporate law. Here, his job revolved primarily around soft IP law, assisting companies draft business strategies around their IP assets while implementing mechanisms to avoid potential IP disputes with competitors.

Passionate about causes pertinent to the Korean-American community, Joseph also serves on the steering committee of KSE (Korean Startups & Entrepreneurs), a non-profit with an aim to empower entrepreneurs of Korean descent in New York.

Korean Startups & Entrepreneurs: KSE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization seeking to cultivate and develop the technology startup ecosystem in the United States, particularly involving Korean-American and South Korean founded companies. Headquartered in New York City’s Silicon Alley, KSE was originally founded as a Meetup amongst Korean-American technology entrepreneurs in 2012 and with growing demand has expanded to include hundreds of entrepreneurs, affiliated partners/advisors, and investors. KSE fosters this tech community by providing unique opportunities for prominent entrepreneurs to share their experiences in fire-side chats, startup pitch events, educational seminars and scholarships, and exclusive networking and social events. Visit us at www.KoreanSE.org