Zero-to-One
Working together to create new business opportunities.
Two decades in Korea including more than 10 years at a Fortune 100 company and one of the world’s most innovative telecoms, the largest in South Korea.
Experience working with cross-functional teams across multiple industries:
Telecom, AI, Web3, Metaverse (esp. AR/VR), IoT, Games, Consumer Electronics, O2O and eCommerce, Media & Entertainment, Points & Payments, Semi-Con, Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, Retail, F&B, Travel, etc.
Creating Collaborative Ecosystems
Identifying, creating and capturing new revenue opportunities through strategies like entering new markets, introducing new products and services, and acquiring new customers.
Collaborative business relationships between two or more companies that leverage each other's strengths and assets to expand their reach, cut costs, increase revenue, or enter new markets.
Sourcing ideas, technologies, and paths to market both internally and externally through networks of people and organizations to advance innovation faster through collaboration and strategic investments.
Leadership, Mentorship, Coaching, and Hiring
Leadership is most challenging when we must rely on our ability to motivate a team, galvanize them around a vision, and leverage the organization from bottom-up and top-down. It takes skill, authenticity, and the ability to tactfully navigate cultural or organizational differences, generation gaps, and geographic distances.
At each pivotal moment when a project or business expands, the ability to coach new talent from various functions, vendors, or partner companies is a make-or-break activity creating growth opportunities as we overcome anticipated or unanticipated challenges. Leadership through these pleasures and sorrows of work requires thoughtful preparation, patience, and clarity.
Coaching new or existing talent during on-boarding to a new business or project is essential to its growth or success. Mentoring with authenticity and clarity is important for the health of any business, but it is essential because it is good for the health of employees who are the core of that success. Talent with positive mentorship become invaluable to a company long after they leave.
Over the years several mentees of mine have gone on to start successful companies, or attend elite graduate schools, and thrive at the best corporations and startups around the world. They gladly look towards the next opportunity to work together because the experience will be rewarding as well as successful.
Whether hiring new employees from outside or within the company it is always easier with a clear vision for what the project or business needs to accomplish. The same can be said for vendors. Balancing the need for culture-fit with the skills needed to handle the objectives, scope, and constraints requires continuous open dialogue across organizations, careful planning and execution.
