SPC/IPC Judges

Kwangrog Kim
Managing Partner, Primer Sazze

Kwangrog is a co-founder and managing partner at Primer Sazze Partners. Since 2018, Primer Sazze Partners has been dedicated to investing in exceptional Korean founders, with the mission of supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs in South Korea and globally. Before this, Kwangrog co-founded Sazze Partners in 2014, focusing on transformative consumer tech companies. In 2005, he co-founded Sazze, Inc., a holding company for fast-growing e-commerce startups.

Bumsoo Kim

Partner, Translink Investment

Bumsoo leads U.S. investments at Translink Investment, focusing on early-stage AI, B2B software, and digital healthcare startups. Previously, he founded and ran an online education startup as CEO for over six years. He also worked as an investment principal at KTB Ventures in Silicon Valley, investing in successful companies that went public or were acquired. Before KTB, he was a business development manager at Samsung Corporation. Bumsoo holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University in Korea.

Sunghyuk Park
Professor, KAIST
Sunghyuk Park is an assistant professor in the department of management engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is also a serial entrepreneur who founded personalization service companies and successfully sold the companies through M&A in the IT industry. He recently established Impact AI, a new AI company for asset allocation optimization. 

Gina Son
Investment Associate, KDB Silicon Valley

'18 UC Berkeley (BA in Political Economy)
'21 University of Chicago MS (MPP, Certificate in Finance & Policy, Data Analytics, Markets & Regulation)
'21 - Current, KDB Sillicon Valley Co-founder & Investment Associate 

Se-Hwang Kim

COO at Attrakt USA & Managing Partner at MVLASF

SeHwang Kim, Mus.D. is the first guitarist and artist from Korea to be inducted to the Hollywood Rockwalk of Fame in 2014. He is currently COO at ATTRAKT USA and Managing Partner at MVLASF.

Sihoon Ryu
President, KIC DC
Sihoon Ryu brings his 17 years of hands-on venture investment experience in the mobile, semiconductor, and automotive industries to his role at KIC DC as President. Prior to joining KIC DC, Sihoon worked as an investor at SKTelecom Ventures, Daedeok Venture Partners, and Hyundai Mobis Ventures.