Young Sohn is a Korean-American business executive and investor.
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24 Facts About Young Sohn
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Young Sohn is the president and chief strategy officer of Samsung Electronics.
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Young Sohn graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in electrical engineering and received an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Young Sohn joined Intel as a product marketing manager and later became its director of new business development.
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Young Sohn formed the company's inaugural joint venture with Samsung Electronics.
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Young Sohn was Vice President of Marketing, and later, Co-President of Quantum Corporation.
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Young Sohn was appointed president of the company's Storage Group.
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Young Sohn was a chairman and chief executive officer at Oak Technology, a digital media semiconductor company.
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Young Sohn helped form Panorama Capital, a venture capital firm which spun off from JP Morgan Partners.
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Young Sohn was a senior advisor to One Laptop per Child with MIT Media Lab.
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Young Sohn was the president and chief executive officer of Inphi Corporation.
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In 2012, Young Sohn was appointed corporate president and Chief strategy officer of Samsung Electronics.
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Young Sohn's promotion marked the company's first president-level appointment of an executive outside of Korea.
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Young Sohn secured the $8 billion acquisition of Harman International Industries, which marked Samsung's entry into the autonomous vehicle industry.
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Young Sohn delivered a keynote address on AI at Web Summit and has spoken at SLUSH, the Tech for Good Summit with French President Emmanuel Macron, and additional international gatherings of members of the technology industry.
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In 2017, Young Sohn launched the $300 million Samsung Automotive Innovation Fund, to focus on connected car investments.
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In 2019, Young Sohn was honored with a Trail Blazer award at the Asia America Multitechnology Association 40th anniversary dinner and with a Corporate Leader Award by the Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco.
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In July 2020, Young Sohn led a $14 million series B investment into genomics startup Genome Medical, via Samsung's venture fund, called Samsung Catalyst Fund.
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Young Sohn sits on the MIT Sloan School North America Board, and is a member of the board of directors at Cadence Design Systems.
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Young Sohn has been a senior advisor for Silver Lake Partners since 2012.
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Young Sohn is an advisor to Bitfury, Zoom Video Communications and the University of California Innovation Council.
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Young Sohn has sat on the boards of ARM, Synnex Corporation, Cymer, Inc Hyundai Electronics and PLX Technology.
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Young Sohn is chairman of the Global Corporate Venturing leadership society, a membership organization for corporate venture capitalists.
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