Yong Su Kim

CEO and Founder at HanPerson

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • CEO and Founder at HanPerson.com
Past
Education
  • Stanford University
  • Columbia University in the City of New York
Connections
217 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Yong Su Kim’s Summary

Entrepreneur with technical background and hands on experience in product management, sales, and marketing at early stage and established software companies.

Company:
http://www.hanperson.com

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/yongsu

Web Sites:
http://www.Askpedia.com
http://www.GroupAsk.com
http://www.TwitHive.com
http://www.TwitIQ.com
http://www.Navgle.com
http://www.QAFind.com
http://apps.facebook.com/sumokhan
http://apps.facebook.com/loveadvice

Blog:
http://www.ysk.com

Yong Su Kim’s Specialties:

Product Management, Business Development, Sales, Technology Evangelism, and Web Development


Yong Su Kim’s Experience

  • CEO and Founder

    HanPerson.com

    (Internet industry)

    June 2006Present (3 years 6 months)

    HanPerson.com is an Internet company focused on creating applications and games for the social web. Current web services include:

    - Askpedia.com: knowledge marketplace for Q&A
    - GroupAsk.com: White label Q&A service for websites and blogs
    - TwitHive.com: Multi channel Twitter Dashboard
    - TwitIQ.com: Twitter Web Client with Keyword and Topic Insight
    - Navgle.com: Universal Search Engine powered by Google
    - QAFind.com: Q&A Search Engine powered by Google
    - SumoKhan: Facebook social fighting game
    - LoveAdvice: Facebook application for sharing relationship advice

    Responsible for all aspects of the business as founder and sole full time employee.

    Established Korea R&D center staffed by Seoul National University graduate students

  • Director, Office of the CTO

    WebEx Communications

    (Public Company; csco; Computer Software industry)

    August 2004February 2006 (1 year 7 months)

    WebEx is the market leader in providing web meeting services and real time collaboration applications for marketing, sales, training and support. The Office of the CTO is responsible for driving the product vision and strategy and developing new business opportunities via internal product development and M&A activities.

    Led the strategy, design, and initial product development with product and engineering teams in US and China for new consumer and business internet services.

    New services included an IM, desktop sharing, VOIP, and video conferencing service for online communities, an online knowledge exchange for subject matter experts discovery and collaboration, and an on demand service for access to hosted hardware with virtualization support.

    Led the initial technical due diligence and participated in the M& deal for the $45M acquisition of Intranets.com completed in September, 2005.

  • VP Business Development

    Juice Software

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 2000May 2004 (3 years 7 months)

    Juice Software provided a server platform with business user centric tools for real time integration of online information and web services into Microsoft Excel documents. Juice Software was acquired by ProClarity Corporation in April, 2004.

    Member of the senior management team reporting to the CEO and responsible for business development, corporate strategy, and strategic sales. Participated in raising $27M over two rounds of funding by contributing to the business plan, investor presentations and demos, and due diligence process. Worked closely with the CEO, CTO, and investment banking firm to drive the M&A process and conduct product/customer knowledge transfer to ProClarity post-acquisition.

    Acting product manager responsible for driving product roadmap and strategy, market research and customer feedback, feature prioritization, product positioning, and competitive intelligence.

  • Senior Manager and Technology Evangelist

    Oracle Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

    December 1997November 2000 (3 years )

    Oracle Worldwide Alliances was tasked with building and expanding relationships with independent software vendors (ISV’s) and system integrators to increase Oracle technology adoption and drive indirect and influence revenue of Oracle platform products.

    Managed a geographically distributed team responsible for evangelizing and driving major Oracle database, application server, portal, and development tools adoption initiatives that targeted Oracle Partners. Represented Alliances on extended product management teams for Oracle 8i database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Portal, and Oracle JDeveloper Java development tool.

    Personally evangelized Oracle internet technologies and eBusiness strategy at major technology conferences and Oracle sponsored seminars in North America and Europe that targeted ISV’s and system integrators.

  • Principal Consultant

    Oracle Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

    July 1995November 1997 (2 years 5 months)

    Oracle Design and Migration Services provided consulting services to strategic Oracle partners to migrate and optimize their solutions on the Oracle database platform.

    Managed consulting projects in North America and South Korea that involved database migration from Sybase, Informix, and Microsoft SqlServer to Oracle. Provided services around database and application code migration, Oracle specific database tuning and SQL optimization, optimum backup and recovery management strategies, and database installation and configuration procedures.


Yong Su Kim’s Education

  • Stanford University

    MS , Computer Science , 19931995

    Awarded Second Place in Annual CS248 Graphics Rendering Competition.

  • Columbia University in the City of New York

    BA , Computer Science , 19891993

    Received Russell C. Mills Award for Excellence in Computer Science, 1993.


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