Man Soon Hwang

Sangwoo is the Director of Investments at Korea Inverstment Partners since April 2014. Sangwoo has 18 years of industrial experiences in diverse area and companies in IT including Samsung Electronics, Dasan networks, and successful venture startups of Neomtel and Polidigm. Sang-woo's diverse area of experience covers from IT engineering skills like sw esign/development, algorithm design/implementation, network protocol to service planning and company management. In startups of Neomtel and Polidigm, Sangwoo led the core engineering development as Chief Technology Officer. Neomtel introduced a new service concept of mobile image compression and transmission at 2000 and its graphice technology became a de-facto standard in Korea at early 2000s. The technology was adapted by Qualcomm later and the company went IPO at 2007. Sangwoo is responsible for global expansion of Korea Investment Partners and actively exploring cross-border investments. Current investment portfolio of Sangwoo is diverse from BIO-Healthcare companies like Elastagen, Auris Surgical Robotics, KAHR to IT companies. Sangwoo received his B.S. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University . Sangwoo is a fluent English speaker.