CEO and Founder, Askpedia.com
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO and Founder at Askpedia
- Past
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- Director, Office of the CTO at WebEx Communications
- VP Business Development at Juice Software
- Senior Manager and Technology Evangelist at Oracle Corporation
- Principal Consultant at Oracle Corporation
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Columbia University in the City of New York
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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.askpedia.com
Blog: http://www.ysk.com
Yong Su Kim’s Specialties:
Product Management, Business Development, Sales, and Technology Evangelism
Yong Su Kim’s Experience
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CEO and Founder
Askpedia
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Askpedia is an online community for Knowledge Sharing using open Questions and Answers from the community. Askpedia allows you to turn to the community to find information, get advice, and discover local knowledge and qualified professionals.
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Director, Office of the CTO
WebEx Communications
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; webx; Internet industry)
August 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for driving product vision, M&A strategy, and driving new business opportunities for WebEx.
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VP Business Development
Juice Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — May 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 1997 — November 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 1995 — November 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
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Stanford University
MS, Computer Science, 1993 — 1995
Awarded Second Place in Annual CS248 Graphics Rendering Competition.
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Columbia University in the City of New York
BA, Computer Science, 1989 — 1993
Received Russell C. Mills Award for Excellence in Computer Science, 1993.
