Andre S. Yoon is the co-founder and CEO of MakinaRocks, a pioneering enterprise AI company known for its advanced AI solutions and its platform, Runway. In this role, Andre directs corporate strategy, product development, and guides the company’s vision, aiming to transform various industries through the power of machine intelligence. After earning a PhD in Physics from MIT, Andre started his career at Samsung Electronics, where he made significant contributions to the development of high-performance SSDs and intelligent storage systems. He later assumed a managerial role at SK Telecom, focusing on machine learning solutions. In 2017, leveraging his expertise in technology and leadership, he co-founded MakinaRocks.

Jaehyuk Lee, co-founder and Chief Corporate Development Officer, is a strategy and process consultant with 20+ years of experience in business development & planning. His diverse industry background and extensive knowledge of enterprise solutions, such as SAP and Oracle, stems from his prior work as a senior consultant at Accenture as the team leader of IoT and Big Data projects at SK Telecom. With an MBA from Chicago Booth, he has an international network in the high-tech investment sector, which led him towards the development of industrial AI solutions, and founding MakinaRocks.

Sangwoo Shim is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder at MakinaRocks. He focuses on developing Machine Learning infrastructure and overseeing AI projects and solutions for manufacturing. Sangwoo has pursued his career in various quantitative areas including quantitative finance, equity trading, and data analysis in global companies. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Harvard University, he joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York as a quantitative analyst. He later worked as a quantitative portfolio manager at WorldQuant and Millennium Capital in Old Greenwich and Singapore. Prior to MakinaRocks, he worked in the Big Data Analysis Group at Samsung Electronics. Sangwoo believes that his expertise in statistics, optimization, and software engineering will contribute to achieving MakinaRocks’s mission to innovate manufacturing through artificial intelligence.

An experienced data scientist with a passion for data-driven problem solving and expertise in data mining and machine learning, Yongsub Lim is a Chief Data Scientist and co-founder of MakinaRocks. He received his Ph.D. in Data Mining from the KAIST School of Computing, which he continued in the Data Mining Lab at Seoul National University as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to MakinaRocks, Yongsub was a data scientist at SK Telecom specializing in advanced analytics and machine learning for industrial data.

Minsoo Park is the Chief Financial Officer of MakinaRocks. With his background as a manager at PWC, as a partner at RSM Korea, and as the VP of Robo3 (currently listed in KONEX), his experience encompasses the full spectrum of finance including venture incubation, IPO auditing, and taxes. Minsoo received his bachelor's degree from the College of Business Administration at Yonsei University.

Youngsin Huh is a CBO (Chief Business Officer) at MakinaRocks. With a background as a senior manager at Accenture Strategy, Accenture Digital, and as the lead of digital strategy consulting practices at IBM Korea, he is a specialist in business development strategy and planning. Prior to MakinaRocks, he was the VP, Head of Solution Biz at Wanted, a referral-based social recruiting platform. Youngsin received his MBA from NYU Stern and his bachelor's degree from the College of Business Administration at Seoul National University.

An experienced operational leader and business consultant of 20+ years, Young Chun is US COO & Business Development Director at MakinaRocks. After completing M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science at Stanford, Young has worked and led various global projects with a focus on high-tech, hardware, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence, spanning across the five continents. As a spirited advocate of digital transformation that improves both human and environment, Young has significant experience in Smart City, Smart Factory, Digital Plant projects in diverse areas: utilities, chemicals, oil & gas, and more. She started her career in DuPont and has held senior leadership roles at Accenture, EY, and Ericsson.