Board of Directors

S. Steven Yang

Board Chair

Dr. S. Steven Yang is a Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the NYU School of Medicine. He is a principal of The Hand Center of the NYU Langone Medical Center-Hospital for Joint Diseases. Formerly he was the Director of the Division of Hand and Upper Extremity at Lenox Hill Hospital and served on the Medical Executive Committee of MEETH-North Shore-LIJ Health System. He is an attending surgeon at New York Hospital Queens. Dr. Yang is board certified in orthopedic surgery and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Surgery of the Hand. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

After graduating from Yale University, he studied at the Duke University School of Medicine. He received a Masters of Public Health degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in general and orthopedic surgery at the Lenox Hill Hospital. Fellowship training in surgery of the hand and upper extremity was undertaken at the Hospital for Special Surgery of the Weill Cornell University Medical College. He is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks of orthopedic surgery on the subject of upper extremity reconstruction. Dr. Yang is involved with a number of community organizations and most recently served on the board of Council of Korean Americans. He resides in New York City with his wife and two children.

*Board Member since 2015

Alex Chi

Alex is a partner in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. Alex joined Goldman Sachs in New York after graduating from MIT in 1994 and spent three years across the information technology, fixed income and investment banking divisions. In 1997, Alex relocated to Hong Kong to work on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, privatization and restructuring assignments for clients across Asia. Notably, Alex was deeply involved in the debt restructuring and capital raise assignment for the South Korean government during the height of the Asian currency crisis in 1998 and was instrumental in developing Goldman Sachs' investment banking franchise in Korea. In 2000, Alex returned to New York to join the leveraged finance group, where he spent six years structuring and executing leveraged loan and high yield debt financings for corporate and private equity clients across all industries. In 2006, Alex assumed his current role in the financial sponsors group where he manages the firm's relationships with a number of private equity and related portfolio company clients. Alex was named managing director in 2006 and partner in 2012. Alex co-heads Goldman Sachs' firmwide recruiting efforts at MIT and co-headed for six years the firmwide Asian Professionals Network which focuses on the recruitment, development and promotion of Asian professionals at Goldman Sachs. *Board Member since 2014

Eun Sun Chun

Eun Sun Chun is a partner at 212box Architecture PC, a multidisciplinary design firm that approaches architecture, graphic design, advertising, and product design with a singular mix of detail-oriented commitment and a rigorously developed sense of play. 212box projects include residential, commercial and retail work. Prior to 212box, Eun was at William T. Georgis, Architect and David Brody Bond LLP. Eun is a native of Brooklyn and an alumna of Stuyvesant High School. Eun studied at Wellesley College in freehand drawing and art history which marked the beginning of her design education and led her to pursue formal architecture training at MIT and Columbia University. Eun went on to receive her Master of Architecture from Yale University. It was at Yale that Eun honed her attention to detail, not only in architecture, but in furniture, industrial design and practice management as well. After having completed the NYC marathon in 2013 for KACF, she will continue to run, but only half marathons. *Board Member since 2014

Michael K. Chung

Secretary

Michael Keyhoon Chung is the CEO of CIG Education Group and an Operating Partner with its parent company, Cambridge Information Group (CIG), a family office focused on investing in and operating companies in the education sector. Michael's responsibilities include oversight of all of CIG's education businesses and the execution of key strategic and operating initiatives for CIG companies. He serves on the Board of Directors of CIG Education Group subsidiaries, The School of The New York Times, Sotheby's Institute of Art and Bach to Rock. During his tenure at CIG, he served as the interim CEO and Board member at Navtech, Inc. (a CIG portfolio company) and led the turnaround of the company, which was acquired in 2016 by Airbus. He also served on the Board of Directors at ProQuest from 2008 to 2013.

Michael came to CIG from Barr Associates, Inc. (Barr), the largest independent manufacturer of advanced optical filters, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. Barr was a client of Michael during his tenure at the Goldman Sachs Group. Michael successfully led the execution of the turnaround of Barr from near bankruptcy to a profitable and growing company and subsequently helped execute the sale of Barr to Materion Corporation in 2009.

Prior to joining Barr Associates, Michael spent seven years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department focusing on the communications technology sector. Over his tenure at Goldman Sachs, Michael worked on numerous M&A and private equity investment transactions across a wide range of industries including information services, telecommunications, high technology, biotech and energy.

Michael was born in Korea and from the age of 9, grew up in Manila, Philippines. After graduating from the International School of Manila, Michael enrolled in the Management and Technology Dual Bachelor's Degree Program at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Engineering. Michael holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Michael has been DJ-ing at clubs and lounges since high school and is an avid collector of vinyl records with a particular affinity for extended remixes of club hits representing the genres of disco, R&B, funk, 80s new wave and house music. He is one of the founders of Beat Refinery, which is currently one of the largest chains of DJ and electronic music schools in America. Michael and his wife Hannah live in New York City with their sons Michael Jr. and Lucas. *Board member since 2018

Michael S. W. Chung

Mr. Chung is the Deputy Global Head of Equities at Millennium Management LLC, a global investment management firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Chung is responsible for the selection and management of Millennium's equity portfolio managers and teams globally alongside the Global Head of Equities. Prior to joining Millennium, Mr. Chung was the Head of Global Distressed and U.S. Credit Strategies at Arrowgrass Capital Partners where he worked since inception as a Founding Partner. Prior to Arrowgrass, Mr. Chung spent 4 years working at Deutsche Bank where he was the Head of Distressed and Event Driven Strategies at Omnis, a proprietary trading unit of the bank. Mr. Chung began his career at Lehman Brothers as a research analyst for the firm's distressed business. He graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. *Board Member since 2012

Jay Kim

Jay Kim is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse Group in the Global Markets division, based in New York. He is the Global Head of the Securitized Products department. The Global Securitized Products department consists of the following units: Securitized Products Sales and Trading, Securitized Products Finance, Select Portfolio Servicing, Sector Financial Inc. and LOCUS Analytics. In addition, Mr. Kim is a member of the Global Markets division Management Committee, Combined US Operations Capital Allocation and Risk Management Committee, Global Markets Capital Allocation and Risk Management Committee, Investment Banking and Capital Markets Capital Allocation and Risk Management Committee and the Credit Suisse US Intermediate Holding Company Capital Allocation and Risk Management Committee. Since joining Credit Suisse in 2011, Mr. Kim has served in leadership roles including the Global Head of Securitized Products Finance and member of the Fixed Income Division Operating Committee. Before joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Kim worked at Barclays Investment Bank where he spent 13 years, most recently as Managing Director and Co-Head of the Securitized Products Origination Group and prior to that Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup as a member of the Asset Backed Finance team. Mr. Kim received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. He serves on boards of a number of privately held companies. Mr. Kim is married with three children and resides in New York City. *Board member since 2018

David H. Lee

Treasurer

David is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he serves as Co-Head of Americas Insurance Fixed Income. In this role, he manages a team of portfolio managers who oversee fixed income portfolios on behalf of domestic and multinational insurance companies that meet their income, performance and asset-liability management objectives. David is also an active participant in workplace diversity initiatives and serves on the CIMD Asian Professionals Network Steering Committee. David received his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University, where he was a Varsity Wrestler. In his free time, David can be found sailing on the Hudson River, listening to music or playing some tunes on his saxophone. He was a founding member of the KACF Associate Board, serving from 2016 to 2018, and also served previously on the KACF Community Grants Committee. David currently resides in New York City with his wife and son. * Board Member since 2018

Cathy Oh

Cathy Oh serves as Head of Marketing and Analytics for Samsung Ads, capitalizing on approximately 15 years of global integrated marketing experience with Fortune 100 companies. As one of the first employees of Samsung Ads, Cathy was integral to building the Samsung Ads brand from the ground up, and under her leadership, the organization is redefining the advertising and Advanced TV landscape. Samsung Ads is one of the fastest growing North American divisions of the electronics giant. Throughout her career, Cathy has built a track record of developing global brands, large-scale marketing strategies and activations, sales initiatives and marketing programs for global sales teams. In addition, her insights-focused approach enables Cathy to quantify marketing value throughout an organization. Prior to joining Samsung Ads, Cathy served as Head of Marketing for iAd, Global Brands & Agencies (a division of Apple) where she developed multi-platform marketing programs that yielded more than $20 million in revenue, and successfully drove relationship management for global advertisers such as Pepsi, Unilever, American Express and Procter & Gamble. In addition to Apple, where Cathy managed a global team, she has held marketing positions at companies that include WebMD and NBC Universal. Areas of Expertise include: Marketplace Positioning, Global Project Management, Digital Marketing Strategy, Marketing Insights and Analytics, Product Readiness & Expansion, Large-scale Sponsorships, Creative Branding Solutions and Vertical-driven Marketing. Cathy received a Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing from New York University and Bachelor’s of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She also serves on the Advisory Board for Conscious Step. Cathy lives in Gramercy, NY, when she isn’t traveling the globe for both work and pleasure. *Board member since 2018

Chul Pak

Vice Chair

Chul Pak is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's antitrust practice, where he focuses on antitrust litigation, mergers, and counseling. Chul defends clients in class actions, individual lawsuits, and complex multi-district antitrust litigations across the United States. His litigation matters include representing manufacturers, services companies, and technology firms in monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, price-fixing, patent misuse, and conspiracy claims. Chul also counsels companies in mergers and non-merger investigations before the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and numerous state attorneys general.

Prior to joining the firm, Chul served as the assistant director of the Mergers IV Division at the Federal Trade Commission. In that role, Chul supervised a 25-attorney team responsible for investigating mergers and acquisitions across a wide spectrum of industries, including consumer goods (food and beverages), retail stores (supermarkets, department stores, and other retail venues), cable and related media entertainment, and hospitals. Chul also represented the FTC in numerous high-profile trials in federal court and the FTC's internal administrative adjudication tribunal. He received his J.D. from New York University's School of Law and his B.A. from Swarthmore College. *Board Member since 2015

David K. Park

David Park is Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Arts & Sciences, Member, The Committee on Global Thought, and Faculty Director, MA in Global Thought. Dr. Park is a member of Columbia University’s Data Science Institute and Fellow at the Center for the Management of Systemic Risk at Columbia University. Dr. Park is also a founding member of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab. Dr. Park has co-founded several New York-based technology companies. Dr. Park is currently exploring the historical arc of universities, limitations and possibilities of “big data”, how failure and vulnerability are the foundations of innovation and creativity across organizations, as well as the electoral origins of congressional polarization. Dr. Park is also working on several manuscripts including, The Twentieth Century Sectional Reversal: How did the Republican States Switch to the Democrats and Vice Versa? and Is History Repeating Itself? Comparing 1875 to 1928 and 1971 to 2008. Dr. Park received his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and his PhD in political science at Columbia where he focused on historical comparative institutional analyses of societal change. He was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Applied Statistics at Washington University, Assistant Professor at George Washington University, Visiting Professor at Columbia University and Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He has written numerous articles and co-authored Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State: Why American Vote the Way They Do (Princeton University Press, 2008). This is David’s first year on the Community Grants Committee. *Board member since 2018.

Jeannie Park

Jeannie Park is a leader and executive in the areas of media and non-profit organizations. She is a former Executive Editor of People magazine, one of the world’s most successful magazines, where she oversaw editorial content as well as hiring, development and budgeting for the editorial staff. She had similar responsibilities as Executive Editor at In Style and as an Assistant Managing Editor at Entertainment Weekly. She spent 22+ years at those and other titles at Time Inc., where she co-founded the company’s Asian-American employee affinity group. In 1987 she served as founding president of the NY chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She was a speaker and facilitator for AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program for 20 years. She is VP of the board of the Third Street Music School Settlement, a 121-year-old cultural institution. She is 1st VP of the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance, and co-founded its global summit in 2010. She serves on advisory councils for NetKAL, the Women’s Media Center and Little Red Elisabeth Irwin, and is a member of the Council of Korean Americans. She has been honored for her diversity achievements by numerous organizations, including the National Association of Minority Media Executives, Asian Professional Extension, the Asian American Federation of New York and the U.S. Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce. She lives in New York City and is the mother of two young adults. *Board Member since 2017

Rich Park

Rich Park is Managing Director and Head of the Strategic Solutions Group at the Mizuho Group where his responsibilities include Corporate & Structured Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. He is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee for the Corporate & Investment Bank in the Americas and the Executive Sponsor of MAAP, Mizuho’s Asian American Professional Network. Prior to joining Mizuho, Rich was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank for nearly 15 years where he focused on the private equity, credit and industrials sectors and was a member of the firm’s Global Credit and Financing Executive Committee. In addition, Rich was actively involved with Deutsche Bank’s diversity initiatives where he served as the Executive Sponsor for the firm’s Multicultural Partnership. Rich currently serves on the Boards of Northwestern University Weinberg College Board of Visitors; Beacon Power Services, a startup that focuses on solving Africa’s energy needs; The Korean American Community Foundation, one of the largest Asian-American focused charitable organizations in the country; and is actively involved with Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Cycle for Survival, an organization dedicated to funding research of rare cancers. Rich is a graduate of Northwestern University, not far from his hometown of Chicago. He currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Sunhee and their sons, Aidan and Bennett.

*Board Member since 2017

James Seo

James Seo is the principal of James Seo Commercial, a commercial real estate advisory and brokerage. He has over 20 years of industry experience, specializing in corporate strategy and tenant representation for office, retail, and industrial users. His expertise includes sale leasebacks, investment sales, complex financial analysis, lease administration support, RFP and timeline documentation processes, broker selection, and market analysis. James has worked on several office and retail transactions in the New York Area, ranging from startup offices to large corporate headquarter relocations. Outside New York, his corporate work includes portfolio sale leasebacks throughout North America. James received a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University, and holds real estate broker licenses in New York and Florida. He previously served on KACF’s board, and is honored to continue working for the organization. He resides in Riverdale, NY with his wife and two children.

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