Andrea had been a part of LG since 2002, providing business planning and management direction. He evaluated long-term investment opportunities that could be built upon teamwork and collaboration. He worked for the business planning team, finance, and treasury team in LG Electronics. Andrea also performed due diligence and post-merger integration for the M&A of ZKW Group, a global automotive lighting company based in Austria. Before that, he was the leader of financials of the business turnaround task force at the LG Business Audit Team. Andrea also successfully managed global cashflow throughout the global financial crisis of 2008 and established the cashflow management system in ERP. In addition, he was the FX dealer for risk management and successfully overcame the credit crisis in 2010. As a result, Andrea improved the fund risk management process and established preventive management which was implemented at other LG affiliates. He also successfully restructured loans to achieve stability by managing overseas credit lines and issuing long-term corporate bonds for liquidity management.

Andrea has an M.A. in M&A and MBA. Andrea emphasizes adopting the LG Way and LG’s code of ethics as fundamental steps in implementing corporate venture capital.

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.

Sungmin started her career as an intern at CDNetworks HQ in Korea, a global content delivery network service company, and ended up working as an accountant for them for over six years. At CDNetworks, she conducted tax audits, due diligence audits by new shareholders, and implementation of the ERP systems for two foreign subsidiaries in Singapore and UK. She also supported the foreign subsidiaries regarding accounting matters such as auditing, book closing, and improvement of the accounting systems. Sungmin took an opportunity to work for the US subsidiary which brought her to the Bay Area where she worked as a senior accountant for the previous three years prior to joining LG Technology Ventures.

Sungmin holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Korea University. She and her husband enjoy hiking and going on camping trips all over California. They both love nature and outdoors.

Christine holds a B.S. in Film, and has five years of experience as an assistant film producer and an editor.

Christine enjoys cooking, watching movies, and traveling when she has free time.

David’s prior experience includes working as a sales and operations assistant, where he was recognized as a valuable team member for his contributions in various tasks. He has additional experience in other technology fields such as web development. David learned multiple programming languages, such as Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and SQL, through coding bootcamps at Telegraph Academy and Launch Academy. He enjoys identifying and resolving issues through critical thinking while programming.

David holds his B.S. in managerial economics from University of California, Davis. In his spare time, David enjoys reading blogs by software engineers on advancements made by tech companies or playing tennis.

Ashley graduated from Biola University with a B.A. in Communication Studies and has a Certificate of Achievement in Web Page Development from De Anza College.

Ashley enjoys dancing, exercising, and traveling when there’s time to spare.