Background
Kim was born in Seoul, South of Korea, in 1954.
Kim was born in Seoul, South of Korea, in 1954.
He majored in physics at Harvey Mudd College, and went on to earn a master"s in engineering at University of California, Los Angeles and an Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
At the age of 11, his family moved to Los Angeles, in the United States. Kim worked for a number of companies in his early career. Kim moved back to South of Korea to join Samsung Electronics in 1999, where during a tenure of five years he rose to become leader of their global marketing initiatives.
Kim was instrumental in generating brand visibility worldwide for Samsung with its "DigitAll-Everyone"s Invited" campaign.
He moved back to the United States in 2004, when Intel hired him as their chief marketing officer His role later shifted to heading Intel"s digital home initiative, as a senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Home Group.
In June 2010 he left Intel to join Soraa as its Chief Executive Officer. He remained in that role until May 2013.
He was general manager of database products at software firm Lotus Development, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pilot Software, a part of business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, and a member of venture-capitalist firm Spencer Trask Software Group.