THE KOREA SOCIETY

Tim Hwang is a multi-company unicorn founder, venture builder, and investor focused on building category-defining platforms at the intersection of technology and regulated industries. He is the Founder/CEO of Nitra, a healthcare financial and operating platform modernizing how medical providers manage payments, procurement, and back-office workflows. Nitra has raised over $200M+ from leading institutional investors including Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sazze Partners, Pantera, KB Group (Korea’s largest bank), as well as prominent technology leaders such as Jerry Yang, Simu Liu, Will Smith, and Dunamu&Partners. Hwang is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of FiscalNote, a global market and regulatory intelligence company that owns CQ Roll Call Group and provides mission-critical data, news, and analysis to governments, legal institutions, financial institutions, and enterprises. FiscalNote operates across the US, Europe, and Asia, serves nearly 5,000 of the world’s most influential law firms, corporations, and governments, and has raised over $230M+ from investors including The Economist, S&P Global, Mark Cuban, Jerry Yang, Steve Case, NEA, and Renren. At the age of 29, Hwang completed a $1.3 billion public offering of the company on the NYSE in 2021 after exceeding $140m of ARR. Through his venture builder / investment firm, Inauguration Capital, Hwang serves as Chairman or Board Member of multiple high-growth companies, including Amber (digital insurance for electric vehicles), Exponent (modern fintech for franchise operators), Vibranium Labs (agentic AI for on-call and reliability engineering), and Jericho (a next-generation cybersecurity company for the AI era). Collectively, these companies have delivered billions of dollars in value, built cutting-edge products across multiple regulated sectors, and executed dozens of acquisitions globally. Earlier in his career, Hwang began in public service, working on the Obama ’08 presidential campaign at age 16 and later was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Education at age 18, where he helped oversee a $4+ billion budget for more than 22,000 public employees. Hwang is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Harvard Business School. He is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Trustee of the Greater Washington Community Foundation, and a founder of multiple nonprofit and philanthropic initiatives. He is also a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., the Council of Korean Americans (CKA), the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle, and YPO.