The partners of SOLOMON PARTNERS have arranged and invested capital since the early 2000s — through KOSDAQ-listed operating companies, venture capital houses, and a Ministry of SMEs & Startups registered accelerator (Reg. No. 2018-42). Thirty-three transactions, US$308m arranged, and a portfolio spanning bio, materials, logistics, and digital technology.
Individual investment associations formed under Korea's venture investment framework, concentrated in bio, medical, and venture growth.
US$6.9m · Bio (Protox) · project and corporate funding.
US$3.0m · Bio (Protox) · medical venture funding.
US$4.1m · Bio ventures · SME and venture-stage companies.
US$6.1m · Secondary allocations and venture funding.
Direct investments and capital raises across two decades — selected names below, from KOSDAQ reverse mergers to seed-stage deep tech.
Investment directorship at Daishin Development Finance (KOSDAQ) and the chief executive seat at iWith Investment — with landmark formations including a US$90m tobacco manufacturing venture and a US$23m shipbuilding-components acquisition.
Executive management of KOSDAQ-listed Jungang Ocean, including a US$26m acquisition financing and the reverse merger that returned the company to trading — capital-markets engineering from the operator's chair.
Paradigm Partners founded (2014) and registered as a Ministry of SMEs & Startups accelerator (No. 2018-42); four associations formed and a bio franchise built — Protox (US$10m raised), Premier Bio, Gwell Bio, Pepgen.
Stem-cell and display-materials ventures, a truckers' fintech platform, copper trade financing with Korea's cable majors — and a U.S. bridge established through two decades of Los Angeles operating experience.
The partners consolidate twenty years of investing, listed-company management, and committee-governed process into a technology-focused investment and advisory firm.
Four partners lead the firm — supported by a standing network of independent professionals engaged case by case.
A career devoted to funding and advising emerging-growth companies and businesses in emerging markets, centered on corporate finance and capital formation for growth-oriented companies. For the past thirteen years he has worked at the core of East Asia's consulting and advisory community, participating in every discipline of corporate finance: private capital, public offerings, private equity investment, business consulting, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisitions. His transaction record runs across construction, alternative energy, nutritional supplements, manufacturing, internet businesses, intellectual property, and entertainment — equity transactions ranging from US$10m to US$3bn, executed through advisory banking, insurance, finance, and investment-banking channels alongside small-business lenders and private equity funds. The craft beneath the record is quantitative: complex financial models and business valuation, LBO analysis, credit-impact assessment, provisions and dilution work, debt-service analysis, and tax-impact structuring — the full toolkit for deciding what a company is worth and how its capital should be built. That combination has made him a sought-after alternative to traditional venture capital for development-stage companies in both the public and private markets, able to design a financing path where conventional funds see only stage risk. His current research focus is the new and secondary battery industries — the cell chemistries, materials chains, and manufacturing economics behind electrification — as a means of gaining and maintaining market leadership, and he presently plans and co-leads the overall work of U.S. company X-SSB in the solid-state battery field. At SOLOMON PARTNERS he chairs the Investment Review Committee and leads the firm's strategy, governance, and capital stewardship. He holds a B.S. from Hanyang University.
More than twenty years of hands-on experience in the aviation and drone industries, spanning technology development, business planning, operations, and technical consulting. He began in future-mobility research as a senior research engineer at Hyundai MOBIS's Technical R&D Center (2003–2009), working on autonomous-driving R&D projects, sensor-fusion technologies, and control systems, then served as technical advisor to V-TOL Aerospace in Australia (2010–2012), advising on autonomous aviation systems, agricultural and mining drone technologies, and drone operation-system development. In the years since he has planned and delivered a wide range of projects across drone operation systems, aerial surveying and imaging, infrastructure inspection and asset monitoring, geospatial data acquisition (GIS), smart-city development, disaster-response and emergency-management systems, and industrial drone applications — creating measurable value by integrating advanced technology with business strategy. Working with government agencies, public institutions, local governments, and private enterprises, he has led business planning, policy support, government R&D program planning and execution, drone commercialization, professional workforce development, and drone training programs, with an in-depth command of aviation regulation, drone industry policy, and operational safety-management and flight-operation systems. His current work follows the industry's leading edge: military drone applications, AI-powered unmanned systems, and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) business models that strengthen industrial competitiveness. At SOLOMON PARTNERS he leads drone, aerospace, and AAM coverage — bringing field experience, organizational leadership, and proven project-management discipline to every file, and reading flight-operation systems, safety cases, and certification documents the way others read financial statements.
A physicist by training (Kyung Hee University) who has spent more than twenty years turning capital-markets theory into closed transactions. His career runs through every seat of Korea's venture and public markets: director and head of Investment Division 1 at KOSDAQ-listed Daishin Development Finance, chief executive of venture house iWith Investment, adviser to tobacco manufacturer Woori Tobacco through its US$90m formation, and executive vice chairman of KOSDAQ-listed shipbuilding-components maker Jungang Ocean — where he ran general management through a US$26m acquisition financing and engineered the reverse merger that returned the company to trading. Since 2013 he has served as vice chairman of Seoul IR Network, advising listed companies on investor relations, and in 2014 founded Paradigm Partners, the accelerator later registered with the Ministry of SMEs & Startups (No. 2018-42); he has also chaired botulinum-toxin developer Protox and advised stem-cell company Hucode Holdings, and currently serves as vice chairman of MK Materials, a copper and non-ferrous metals supplier to Korea's cable majors. Across this arc he has personally led 33 transactions arranging US$308m — corporate formations, NPL and real-asset structures, reverse mergers, convertible issues, and deep-tech seed rounds — deploying US$12.3m of his own and affiliated capital alongside. The through-line is a physicist's habit of mind applied to deal-making: measure first, structure second, sign last.
Twenty-six years building businesses in the United States, beginning on the trading desks of Seoul — procurement at Seorin Electric, then international business at S&C Industry — before moving to California in 1999. As marketing director and general manager of a North Hollywood automotive-electronics wholesaler he directed international sales of vehicle LCD monitors and DVD systems, building China trade lines that reached US$3m in monthly revenue. In 2005 he acquired Alpha Printing & Design, one of the oldest commercial printers in Los Angeles Koreatown, and over eighteen years as owner-CEO grew annual revenue from US$400k to US$4.5m — expanding gross margin over 300%, quadrupling the customer base, and diversifying into promotional products, health supplements, and food packaging as an Advertising Specialty Institute member. Appointed CEO of Paradigm Partners in 2025, he now applies that operator's network to the firm's cross-border practice: international trade, M&A, and market entry across Korea, the U.S., China, Vietnam, and Japan, with particular depth in consumer and cultural-product exchange. At SOLOMON PARTNERS he leads global business development — the investor and buyer bridge between Seoul and the Americas that turns a Korean technology round into a cross-border syndicate. He studied English Language & Literature at Dankook University.
Beyond the four partners, SOLOMON PARTNERS draws on a standing network of some thirty-five independent professionals: engineers and doctorate-level specialists across our eight coverage sectors, certified public accountants, patent and transaction attorneys, former airline and defense program managers, and capital-markets practitioners. They are engaged case by case under confidentiality and independence terms — so every assessment, diligence exercise, and mandate is staffed with precisely the expertise it requires, without the overhead of a permanent bench.
Note. The track record above reflects investment, fundraising, listed-company management, and incubation activity conducted by the firm's partners personally and through affiliated vehicles — including Paradigm Partners Inc. (㈜패러다임파트너스), a Ministry of SMEs & Startups registered accelerator (Reg. No. 2018-42), and Bizpool. Figures are aggregates of committed or arranged amounts at the time of each transaction and are not a representation of current value or future performance. Korean won amounts are stated in U.S. dollars converted at KRW 1,450 per USD. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Twenty years of committees, term sheets, and follow-ons — now focused on deep technology. We would welcome the chance to show you the detail.