I serve as Chief Science Officer for FLITE Material Sciences and hold academic appointments at the Solbridge International School of Business and DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology). I also serve as a Venture Partner at The Yozma Group and as Chief Marketing Officer for Eidware / SoundMind (Seoul), with previous roles at NovumWaves (Seoul), Nessa Hearing (Singapore). I also hold additional appointments as Honorary Fellow (University of Melbourne) and Visiting Professor (Libera Accademia Belle Arti–Italy). Previously, I was Chief Innovation Officer at Campus D, a Seoul-based startup incubator/Fab Lab and served over four years as a Director in the CTO office at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Prior to that, I was VP & Medical Director at Sg2 and an Associate at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. My business experience spans the executive, marketing, clinical and R&D domains, with sector expertise in medical devices, digital health, medical imaging and biopharma while my academic research focuses on protein electrodynamics and terahertz medicine.

I hold an MD (Alpha Omega Alpha) and MPhil (Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics) from Columbia University. Earning a BA (cum laude in Biochemical Sciences) at Harvard, I conducted research in molecular dynamics with Martin Karplus (2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). My teaching experience includes cellular & molecular biology, neuroanatomy, bioinformatics, mathematical modeling and technology marketing at Columbia, Roosevelt, Harvard, SAIHST and DGIST. Along with peer-reviewed scientific publications, several patents, a novel (Waves), syndicated columns and newspaper contributions, I have presented invited talks and keynotes at leading institutions and conferences worldwide covering healthcare trends, digital & mobile health, protein electrodynamics, the future of medicine, healthcare market dynamics, and innovation in general.