Experience

Kijung Hospitality Group

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Initiatives

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Los Angeles County, California, United States Lead strategic initiatives for multi-unit Baekjeong and Ahgassi Gopchang restaurant group



DBM Cloud Systems

• SVP International Sales

  • Mar 2016 - Jun 2019

  Burlingame, CA DBM Cloud Systems now offers an open software platform for the management of unstructured data in a hybrid and multi-Cloud environment. Check us out at www.dbmclouds.com. DBM Delivers: - CHOICE: Avoid Cloud vendor lock-in for better pricing, SLA's and compliance with policy or governmental regulations - AGILITY: Implement a robust multi-Cloud and hybrid-Cloud strategy. Rules-based selective bi-directional replication provides the agility to move unique workloads to… Show more DBM Cloud Systems now offers an open software platform for the management of unstructured data in a hybrid and multi-Cloud environment. Check us out at www.dbmclouds.com. DBM Delivers: - CHOICE: Avoid Cloud vendor lock-in for better pricing, SLA's and compliance with policy or governmental regulations - AGILITY: Implement a robust multi-Cloud and hybrid-Cloud strategy. Rules-based selective bi-directional replication provides the agility to move unique workloads to multiple Clouds - POWERFUL CLOUD MANAGEMENT: Customizable single virtual view of entire Cloud data - HIGH ROI: Save $100,000's annually in elastic Cloud compute and data transfer charges which can be up to $.25/GB - DATA GEO-SOVEREIGNTY: Run AWS-compatible applications in a non-US Cloud provider in accordance with your internal policy or your country's legal requirements Show less



VIOLIN Systems

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President & General Manager, Asia-Pacific

  • 2012 - 2015

  Singapore Directed sales, SE and post-sales support, marketing and sales operations for NAND flash storage company in APAC. Personally opened Korean and Taiwan sales operations and led sales throughout the region. Primary geo focus included Korea, Japan, Australia/New Zealand. Secondary markets included Greater China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Sales included both high touch direct sales as well as two-tier channel sales.



Veri-Tax

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Customer Happiness

  • 2010 - 2012

  Irvine, California Directed business development, finance and operations for $10M provider of verification and fraud detection services to the financial and consumer credit markets



Pacific Partners

• Business Development Consultant

  • 2007 - 2011

  Los Altos and Singapore Asia-Pacific business development consultant. Example of consulting services include • Asurion Asia-Pacific: Launch of handset insurance products in Korea, Japan & Taiwan • Cisco Systems: Defined JV with Chunghwa Telecom to offer new networking products in Taiwan, Vietnam and China.



Asurion

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Managing Director, Asurion Taiwan & VP Finance and Operations, Asurion Korea,

  • 2004 - 2007

  Korea, Taiwan Directed all operations, inbound customer support, fulfillment and outbound sales for cell phone insurance provider in Korea and Taiwan. • Initially hired as VP Operations, Korea to manage all operations including business planning, finance, HR, legal, insurance relationships, inbound customer support call center, fulfillment and inside sales. • Through 80 inside sales team, as well as promotion through Korean telecom partner (KTF), built consumer mobile phone insurance subscriptions… Show more Directed all operations, inbound customer support, fulfillment and outbound sales for cell phone insurance provider in Korea and Taiwan. • Initially hired as VP Operations, Korea to manage all operations including business planning, finance, HR, legal, insurance relationships, inbound customer support call center, fulfillment and inside sales. • Through 80 inside sales team, as well as promotion through Korean telecom partner (KTF), built consumer mobile phone insurance subscriptions from zero to over 1 million and revenue in excess of $10M annually. • Promoted to Managing Director of Asurion Taiwan/HK where we partnered with FET (Taiwan) and CSL (HK). Show less



Pacific Partners

• Business Development Consultant

  • 1996 - 2004

  Los Altos, California, Singapore Business Development and interim management consultant working with technology companies to expand sales and new market penetration. Examples include: • Boniva Software: VP Sales for e-learning software company • HVC Technologies: VP Sales & Business Development for Unified Messaging company • VeriFone: Acquired EFT/POS services company in Australia for merchant payment processing company • Tandem Computer: Led Strategy and New Ventures division of computer manufacturer… Show more Business Development and interim management consultant working with technology companies to expand sales and new market penetration. Examples include: • Boniva Software: VP Sales for e-learning software company • HVC Technologies: VP Sales & Business Development for Unified Messaging company • VeriFone: Acquired EFT/POS services company in Australia for merchant payment processing company • Tandem Computer: Led Strategy and New Ventures division of computer manufacturer. Completed $8M investment in electronic payments software and 3-D Web production companies. • Philips Electronics: Negotiated OEM relationship to embed speech recognition technology in WAP phones • SayIT: Founder of digital media company which grew to over 2 million users and over 100,000 creative submissions. Raised $5M Series A financing • Partner, Palo Alto Ventures (Philips Electronics): Completed $10M equity investment in TiVo & $5M investment in home networking company. Show less



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Corporate Development, Manager Corporate Finance

  • 1989 - 1995

  Cupertino, California Joined Tandem as Manager of Corporate Finance . Promoted to Director of Corporate Development leading strategic partnering. Worked closely with Asian sales operations to accelerate revenue through strategic partnering and channel recruitment/management. Managed distribution and SI partnerships in USA, Asia & Europe driving over $100 million per annum. Negotiated $300M+ of acquisitions, divestitures, R&D partnerships, JV’s, strategic investments & marketing alliances.



Ernst & Young (formerly Arthur Young & Company)

• Principal, Entrepreneurial Services Group & General Management Consulting Group

  • 1981 - 1989

  San Francisco, California Joined Arthur Young as Senior Consultant and promoted to Manager, then Principal. Director of Management Consulting for Entrepreneurial Services Department which focused on delivering sales, marketing, finance, operations and IT consulting services to technology companies or privately held companies with revenues under $100M.