Prior to joining LG Technology Ventures in May, 2021, he worked for various affiliates of LG Group. At LG Science Park, he managed/supported LG Group’s open innovation as a team leader. Prior to LG Science Park, he was dispatched to Energy TFT of LG Holdings to support energy-related business in LG Group. In LG Fuel Cell Systems, which was a JV company with Rolls-Royce Group, he carried out business strategy and market development as a leadership member. He also worked on technology strategy and PMO at LG Display. He double majored in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration from Inha Univ and dropped out of KAIST MBA. He enjoys traveling with his wife and two kids, and enjoys outdoor activities such as soccer, basketball and golf.

Prior to joining LG Technology Ventures, Gyunhong spent nineteen years at LG CNS, a global IT service company of LG Group. Gyunhong began his career as a system engineer and performed over eighty IT projects on site covering various industries including public, manufacturing, defense, financial, education, and retail. Afterwards, Gyunhong transitioned his career towards consulting, evaluating new technologies, building corporate technology strategies, and leading new business development.

Gyunhong was also dedicated to developing the next generation smartphone with LG Electronics, serving as one of the team leaders. Gyunhong also served as an auditor of the Hackathon challenge hosted by the city of Seoul and as an advisor of the Korean National Information Society Agency for several years. He was awarded the Bronze degree from LG Group's Future Challenger program, which is a contest held by LG Group for new business models and technology development. He has also received a plaque for his contribution to the new IT systems from The Korean Police Agency and Shinhan Bank in Korea.

Gyunhong holds his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Hanyang University and his MBA from LG Academy, where he won the Best Project Award as a team leader and graduated summa cum laude.

Gyunhong began his new journey in the Bay Area in August 2018 with his wife and two teenagers. He enjoys playing golf, taking photographs, and taking road trips.

John(Jun Hee) has over ten years of experience in the field of telecommunication & IT services as a sales representative, marketing strategist, and partnership manager.

Prior to joining LG Technology Ventures, he spent 7 years at SK Telesys, as sales representative of government sponsored national system integration projects in South-east Asia region, backed by EDCF(Eoconomic Development Cooperation Fund) from KEXIM(The Export-Import Bank of Korea). He also spent 2 years at Innowireless, as a marketing strategist, supporting sales of LTE small cells and NMS to MNOs(Mobile Network operator) from US, UK, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. John(Jun Hee) joined LG Uplus, a telecommunication operator in Korea, in 2016, where he led building global strategic partnerships with major players in telecommunication services including Verizon, T-Mobile, Bell Canada, Google and Facebook.

John(Jun Hee) holds B.A in International Commerce from Kyunghee University. He loves water sports as he was a member of a local swimming team, back in junior high days. Today, he fell in love with his aero road bike, making him craving for more speed and travel around to try new routes, during his spare time.

Prior to joining LG Technology Ventures, Jinha worked in LG Display for more than 15 years, and had various experiences for recent 9 years in the open innovation field including OI planning, technology scouting, startup incubating/accelerating, global external network communication and national project management.

Jinha established open innovation strategies and discovered emerging technologies in the fields of OLED materials, quantum dots, and micro LEDs for future display preparation and discussed business models with global partners(Merck, JNC, Nanosys, Imec, PlayNitride etc) and led over dozens of contracts such as JDA(Joint development agreement), MEA(Material Evaluation Agreement), TTA(Technology Transfer Agreement) successfully. Jinha also set up internal/external startup incubating and accelerating programs of LG Display and operated those initially. Before that, Jinha managed a number of national projects, cooperated with the ‘Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning’ and the ‘Korean Display Industry Association’, and explored EU national projects such as Eureka, FP7, and Horizon 2020 to expand cooperation opportunities.

Jinha began his career in the display material purchasing team in 2006. Jinha has experienced most of the display materials including liquid crystal, photoresist, chemical, target, and especially focused on material replacement evaluation for cost innovation. Jinha set up the entire evaluation process from TFT, CF fabrication to display module reliability test and also participated in the evaluation directly to analyze and improve defects, so that he successfully led multi-million dollars cost innovations by replacement of liquid crystal.

Jinha holds and B.S in Material Engineering from Pusan National University, South Korea.
Jinha like playing golf, listening and singing Music.

Annie is the Financial Planning Manager in LG Technology Ventures. Prior to joining LG Tech Ventures, she has over 10 years of financial planning and analysis experience in construction, consumer goods, R&D, and service industries.

Annie started her career as Financial Analyst at her family construction business. She was responsible for forecasting, monthly accruals, fixed assets management (depr), and capitalization.  After the work hour she also worked as a Research Assistant at University of Texas at Austin and researched importance of adequate riskless assets in balance sheet and why CAPM overestimates illiquid assets.  In 2012, she joined cosmetic start-up company, LeeAnni Eco as CFO and developed and reported financial budgets, monthly forecasts, and annual business plans in align with business objective, and assessed capital requirements and developed capital plans.  After she learned about system of business, she decided to join bigger corporation to learn about the processes.  Her first corporate experience started from LG Fuel Cell Systems where she worked as a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager.  She built and managed annual budget according to the change of business strategy and performed detailed analyses and simulations on as-need basis for upper management reporting and also collaborated with Korea shareholders (LG Affiliates) and UK Rolls Royce Group treasury regarding investment.  She also managed orderly wind-down process of a corporation when shareholders decided to shut down the business.  After, she was transferred to LG Electronics and worked as Planning and Operations Manager where she was responsible for meeting CIC operational costs in financial objectives by providing insights across operations and total business performance.

Annie holds Master of Science Business Administration (Concentration in Finance) from Texas Tech University.  She loves outdoor activities and loves going to Dog Park with her husband and her dog, Choonja. 

Seonghwan joined LG Technology Ventures Corporate Venture Business Development team in August 2023. Before joining LG Technology Ventures, he served LG Chem in various capacities for over 11 years.

Seonghwan started his professional career as a researcher. His research project was the development of functional thin films on optical films using state-of-the-art technology including atomic layer deposition, sputtering and plasma curing induced wet coating. He filed 9 domestic patents and 17 PCT patents in his research field, which was about optically clear water barrier films for OLED device protection.

After the research project, Seonghwan served as an open innovation manager at LG Chem Research Park. At this stage of his career, he built a wide global network with a large company, startups, universities, and research institutes. He supported the R&D project team to build partnerships and launch collaborations with global partners in the fields of advanced materials such as carbon nano composites, transparent electrode, water barrier adhesives, functional coating materials, heat dissipation fillers, post lithium-ion battery and advanced cathodes & anodes for LiBs.

Meanwhile, Seonghwan was involved in various startup investment projects. He served as a full-time member of a sustainability investment task about establishing a blueprint of investment strategy on hydrogen economy landscape from LG Group's viewpoint. For the future business and R&D of LG Chem, he investigated the feasibility of majority investment in a synthetic bio company. He also initiated several investment projects including companies in the field of specialty chemicals, plastic waste separation, and next generation batteries in a strategic way. He is a graduate of a venture capitalist training course conducted by the Korea Venture Capital Association.

His background is in materials science. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Korea University. He lives with his wife, daughter, and son, and has recently started playing golf.