Bay Area K Group

CEO and CFO (5th Term)

Seongsik Shin (Cisco), Co-President

Seongsik Shin is a technical leader at Cisco Systems mainly responsible for video streaming on settop box. Prior to Cisco he led an engineering team as a director of engineering at Tranax and also has a variety of engineering experiences in Korea and silicon valley companies. He holds a MSEE from Seoul National University. He loves to play golf and enjoys watching sports game.

Sungmoon Cho (Oracle), Co-President

Sungmoon Cho is Principal Product Manager at Oracle, responsible for Java tooling strategy. Prior to Oracle, he was founding member of Gamevil (KQ:063080). Sungmoon holds bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management where he served as VP of Technology at Student Association.

Jinwoo Im (Stanford), Co-President

Jinwoo Im works for VA Palo Alto Health Care System as a research health science specialist while pursuing his PhD in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He founded a management consulting firm to serve diverse clients in US and Korea. He loves talking with people and converting abstract business ideas into tangible ones.

Kihyun Yoon (Silicon Image), CFO

Kihyun Yoon is a senior engineer at Silicon Image, responsible for signal integrity and characterization of high-speed serial link in GHz range. He earned his Master’s degree in Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology of EE, where he researched modeling and analysis of 3D IC technology.

Administration Officers

Brian Yoo (Google), VP of Membership

Byung Gon (Brian) Yoo is a risk analyst at Google, responsible for managing risk of Google’s investment portfolio. Brian earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Operations Research from Cornell University. Brian is also a CFA Charterholder.

Howard Kim (Yahoo), VP of Media

Jaewon Shin (Broadcom), VP of Small Group Moderation

Doug Kim (Cisco), VP of Job Moderation

Jiwon Youm (SunGard)

Board of Directors

Young Gil Song, Chairman of Board

Younggil is a serial entrepreneur. Currently he is working as CEO of ZeroDesktop, a cloud desktop platform company, and Booga Ventures, an angel investment company. Before that, he founded and served as CEO of NComputing, DoubleSight Displays, and eMachines . He started his career as software engineer at TriGem Computer after graduating from Yonsei University with Bachelor’s degree of Electrical Engineering and came to US in 1997.

Seungryul Choi (Google)

Kiyoung Choi (Marvell)

Peter Bae (Fantage.com)

Taejin Kim (LG Innotech)

Hyungkeun Hong (Juniper Networks)

Sub Group Leaders

Group A: Seungryul Choi (Google), Jiwoon Jeon (Google), Jongyoung Yoon (Taos), Hongrae Lee (Google)

Group B: Moon Chang (VM Ware), Yang Seok Ki (Oracle), Soohyun Bae (Sony USA)

Group C: Kiyong Choi (Marvell), Daewook Kim (Marvell), Jaewoong Chung (Intel), Minjong Kim (Altoran)

Group D/E: Jun Kang (Nanosys)

Group F: Sangjoon Lee (U-Systems), Jinwoo Lim (Stanford), Kyeongsoo Jeong (Agilent Technologies)

Group G: Mickey Kim (Google), Sungmoon Cho (Oracle), Steve Song (CD Networks)

Group W: Mia Lee (Walmart), Sandy Ahn (Stanford), Jaeyoung Jung (Panasonic)