Sunny Ahn

Sunny is a Managing Partner at SNL Partners and Chief Strategy Officer at Soul Machines, a boutique technology investment and advisory services firm. Previously, He was Partner at Endeavour Partners, a boutique strategy consulting firm. He has worked extensively with technology, media and telecommunication (TMT) service providers, device manufacturers and healthcare organizations in the US, Europe and Asia. Sunny has been a successful entrepreneur, strategic adviser, executive and angel investor throughout his career. Prior to joining Endeavour Partners, Sunny was a Founder and CEO of Context Connect, a wireless directory and connectivity solutions provider. Mr. Ahn co-founded Takeaclass, a database service company focused on providing marketing and procurement services for over 800 educational institutions, which was sold to Mindedge in 2001. Sunny has held senior consulting at GeoPartners Research (sold to Renaissance Worldwide in 1999), in key marketing roles at SAS and was a programmer within the Internal Medicine Department at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has worked directly with the Department of Justice on anti-trust matters, Ofcom in the development of wireless directory and connectivity solutions in the UK telecommunication market as well as on public interest (healthcare, education, security) matters involving the US International Trade Commission (ITC). As an industry expert, Sunny has testified in front of the United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on the topic of private connectivity and directory services. Sunny holds three US patents in the area of private connectivity and mobile directory services. Sunny has held teaching and research positions at MIT, Harvard University and Yonsei University (Korea). He holds a Masters and Bachelors degree from Harvard University.