SPC/IPC Mentors

Byun, Nathan

Mentoring Area: Business Operation (Automobile and Robotics)

Automotive & Robotics, Private Investor

Hyundai Motor, Fluxity (V2X Startup), Honeywell Robotics

Global scale corporate operations in R&D, manufacturing, logistics, (LinkedIn)

Huh, Charlie

Mentoring Area: Marketing & Growth

Charlie Huh is a digital entertainment tech startup executive with expertise in building and running global business teams. Most recently, he was the VP of Growth and Marketing at Tapas Media. Tapas is one of the fastest-growing digital publishing platforms of Asian webcomics and novels in North America. It has a community of 10M+ registered users with key global operations in South Korea and China. Charlie has more than 10 years of experience in content and media space with proven exit/track records of scaling sales and operations teams. He led revenue for one of the leading online video platforms of Asian televised content streaming premium full-length movies, documentaries, and TV shows on demand. He is a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. (LinkedIn)

Jung, JiHee: Founder, Mediaiplus

Mentoring Area: Pitch Presentation. Dos & Don’ts as a Startup CEO

Medical Science Representative, Roche

Medical Science Liaison, Mundipharma International Limited

Medical Science Liaison, Bayer

After being in the pharmaceutical industry for a decade, I realized the importance of clinical trials. But the process of getting started in clinical trials takes too long and costs too much, which results in delayed treatments for patients.

MediC provides customized solutions to clinical trials for bio-ventures to develop candidate substances.

Numerous worldwide bio-ventures, especially with imperfect infrastructure preparing clinical trials with help of CRO usually takes 15 months on average and consumes $75K. We try to shorten the amount of time and costs by providing global clinical trial information. We are committed to mediate between a bio-venture and CRO to operate clinical trials efficiently by collecting data and keeping them up-to-date.

So, I created Mediaiplus. If you're as passionate as I am about working on clinical trials, please get in touch! (LinkedIn)

Kang, Byoung Jo (BJ), esq, CPA

Mentoring Area: US Law, Taxation, & Incorporation

Byoung Jo Kang (강병조) is a business lawyer with expertise in U.S. income tax. Mr. Kang often represents domestic business entities, international businesses, U.S. taxpayers abroad, and foreign taxpayers in the United States. Mr. Kang regularly advises high-net-worth U.S. and foreign individuals, families, multinational companies, as well as nonprofits, in connection with U.S. income tax issues. Mr. Kang frequently represents both domestic and foreign biotech, life sciences, and healthcare companies. Mr. Kang assists these entities with a wide variety of issues, primarily including formation to financing; federal and state regulatory matters affecting operations; and M&A negotiation and transactional matters.

Mr. Kang earned his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law (2011), a Masters of Arts (M.A.) in Regional Studies: East Asia from Harvard University (2002), a Masters of Arts (M.A.) in Korean Literature from the Seoul National University (1999), and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Korean Literature from the Seoul National University (1997). Mr. Kang is fluent in Korean and Japanese. (LinkedIn)

Kim, Greg (Kwangrok): Partner & Co-Founder, Primer Sazze

Mentoring Area: Fundraising & Business Strategy

Kwangrog co-founded Sazze, Inc. in 2005 and serves as CFO, overseeing finance and human resources, and supervising strategy, product management and online marketing on various company projects. He set up several eCommerce projects at Sazze, Inc., including DealsPlus.com, WhizWallet.com and Progrids.
Kwangrog co-founded Sazze Partners in 2014. He focuses on transformative consumer tech companies. Prior to co-founding Sazze, Kwangrog studied Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kwangrog currently lives in Silicon Valley and travels between Silicon Valley and Seoul. (LinkedIn)

Kim, Kevin: Founder & CEO of BraveTurtles Inc.

Mentoring Area: Pitch Presentation

Kevin majored in Digital Media at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He has worked for 5 years in motion graphics, 2 years in CG (computer graphics) animation, and 5 years in film VFX (Visual Effects, special effects). While working in the VFX industry, he had the opportunity to work on Hugo, which won the 2012 VFX Oscar. In the same year, another project he worked on, The Game of Thrones, also received an Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. In 2016, with the goal of making his own game someday, Kevin joined a AAA game company, Respawn Entertainment, as a Sr. VFX Artist where he worked on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in 2019. After 6 years of preparation, he finally decided to start his own business. In January 2021, Kevin founded the Metaverse game startup, Brave Turtles, Inc. (LinkedIn)

Kim, Jung-Eun, MS

Mentoring Area: Startup Governance

M.S. in biological sciences at Seoul National University.
B.S. in biology education at Seoul National University.
Senior researcher in LG household & healthcare.
Product owner in Ultracaption Inc.(merged to Kakao)
Venture capitalist in Donghoon Investment, etc.

Director of Custumor Success in Quotalab Inc.

(LinkedIn)

Kim, Se-Hwang, MusD: COO, ATTRAKT USA, Managing Partner at MVLASF

Mentoring Area: Fundraising, Pitch Presentation, Marketing

Se-Hwang Kim, Mus.D. is the first guitarist and artist from Korea to be inducted to the Rockwalk of Fame, Hollywood in 2014. He is a solo artist and member of N.EX.T since 1993 and made history in music by performing as the soloist with I Musici di Roma for the 60th-anniversary concert tour with the chamber orchestra renowned to popularize 'Vivaldi - Four Seasons'. He was the head of music mentorship at CJ Group, artist at SM Station of S.M. Entertainment, head professor at Hanyang University Conservatory, then worked for the S.Korea government as a member of the committee for K-Pop from 2016, and was awarded by the government in 2018, and have participated in record-breaking projects in mobile game, movie including projects in investment and business operation. He is a lecturer and performer at NASA-JPL and UCLA, a member of METal International in Beverly Hills, vice president at Artist First Alliance HQ USA, managing partner at MVLASF, and COO at ATTRAKT USA.. (LinkedIn)