Meet our Mentors
We are proud to have assembled a group of volunteer mentors to assist you along your career path, professional growth, and personal development. They come from various industries, locales, and across all walks of life. One commitment they made here is to help the next generation of Korean Americans make an impact, whether big or small, in every possible profession. Here are our mentors...
Business
Peter Kang
Principal, Barrel
Peter Kang is co-founder and a principal at Barrel (www.barrelny.com), a web design company in New York City. He is creative director of Brink Magazine (www.brinklit.com), an online arts and literary publication. He is also an organizer for the Korean American Film Festival New York (www.kaffny.com).
In 2006, Peter founded Tailor ...…
Bernard Moon
Vice President, Lunsford Group
Bernard is Vice President of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, investment boutique and real estate.
Previously, he was Co-founder and VP of Business Development at GoingOn Networks, a social media platform for companies and...…
Susie Maeng
Senior Account Operations Manager, Nielsen IAG
Susie is a Senior Account Operations Manager at Nielsen IAG. She is responsible for managing major projects for accounts with the domestic and foreign automakers where she provides analysis and insights that measure the effectiveness of advertising. Prior to her current position, Susie has a background in working with auto manufacturers and was par...…
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Joseph Kim
Executive Vice-President/Professor, Christ Bible Seminary
Joseph Kim is Executive Vice-President and Professor of Philosophical Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at Christ Bible Seminary (CBS) in Nagoya, Japan. He will also serve as the founding president of Nagoya International University, an English language international university offering degrees in Christian ministry and Business/English Commu...…
Richard Lee
Management & Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Education
Richard is a Management & Program Analyst in the Office of Postsecondary Education with the U.S. Department of Education. Richard’s work involves monitoring and program evaluation of Teacher and Student Development Programs. Before joining the Department of Education Richard taught Economics and United States history for seven years at a high p...…
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Roy Choi
CEO, Mars Entertainment
Roy Choi is CEO of Mars Entertainment, a film company specializing in distribution of Hollywood feature films to Korea. It is currently the largest independent distributor in Korea. Past successful titles include "Lust, Caution," "3:10 To Yuma," and "The Duchess." Titles planned for 2009 include "Knowing" starring Nicholas Cage and "Terminator S...…
Paul Kim
Executive Director, Kollaboration
Stand up:
PK was the host of Asian Nights at The World Famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood for three and half years. (Watch ) During that 175 week run, he brought over 10,000 people to the club, many of them seeing stand up comedy live for the first time.
He has performed stand up comedy in over 30 universities across the United State...…
Finance
Sandor Hau
Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Sandor Hau is Vice President and Head of the Principal Finance Group (Americas) within the Principal Strategies Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He currently leads a group focused on investing in both private equity and distressed debt. Sandor’s previous work at Goldman Sachs in New York and Hong Kong included positions in leveraged finan...…
Jeffrey Lee
CFO, Northern Light VC
CFO of Northern Light Venture Capital, a early and growth stage focused China venture fund backed by institutional investors. Was part of the founding team in 2005, and today the firm is known as one of the leading venture capital firms in China.
Began career after college first in investment banking in Korea and Asia, later mov...…
David Lee
Managing Director - Pac Rim Corporate Principal Investments, Bank America Merrill Lynch
David graduated from Columbia in 1996 and joined Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division in New York working in the Financial Institutions Group. He transferred to Lehman's Korea office focusing on cross-border M&A and debt financings.
In 2001, he joined Merrill Lynch's Corporate Principal Investments team focused on distre...…
Government
Adrian Hong
Director, The Pegasus Project
Mr. Hong is co-founder and former Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK, an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea, and the protection of North Korean refugees all over the world. In December of 2006, Mr. Hong was arrested along with 2 LiNK field workers and 6 North Korean refugees in the People's Republic of China...…
Bernard Moon
Vice President, Lunsford Group
Bernard is Vice President of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, investment boutique and real estate.
Previously, he was Co-founder and VP of Business Development at GoingOn Networks, a social media platform for companies and...…
Joe Ahn
Corporate Manager State and Local Government Affairs, Northrop Grumman
Joe Ahn began his career eighteen years ago in government affairs working for a non-profit higher education association in California. Joe currently advises corporate management on state legislative, regulatory and political matters at Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Fortune 100 company headquartered in Los Angeles, California with 120,000 employ...…
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Chong Choe
Partner, Choe, Holen, Yoo & B
Chong Choe is currently a Partner with Choe, Holen, Yoo & Burchfiel, P.C. and specializes in corporate, real estate and commercial litigation issues. Prior to his current position, he served in the capacity of an Attorney Advisor for the United States Small Business Administration. Previous to his position with the United States Small Business Adm...…
Ekwan Rhow
Partner, Bird Marella
Ekwan E. Rhow is a partner at Bird Marella. A 1991 graudate of Stanford University and a 1994 graduate of Harvard Law School, he litigates and tries complex business disputes on behalf of corporate and individual clients, including prominent Hollywood financiers and production companies, Fortune 500 companies (both public and private), South Korea...…
Eugene Yoon
Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Eugene Yoon is an associate at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. His practice currently focuses on securities matters, including private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities.
Prior to his transition to law, he worked in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division in Asia, executing on ...…
Medicine
ROBERT KIM
SURGEON, SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER
I am a practicing vascular surgeon practicing at a privae, tertiary care medical center in downtown Seattle…
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Adrian Hong
Director, The Pegasus Project
Mr. Hong is co-founder and former Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea, or LiNK, an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea, and the protection of North Korean refugees all over the world. In December of 2006, Mr. Hong was arrested along with 2 LiNK field workers and 6 North Korean refugees in the People's Republic of China...…
Hannah Song
Executive Director, LiNK | Liberty in North Korea
Hannah Song is the Executive Director of LiNK, or Liberty in North Korea, an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea, and the protection of North Korean refugees. Ms.Song joined LiNK in 2004 as Deputy Director, dividing her time between managing day to day operations and coordinating overseas programs, safe houses and shelters, un...…
Paul Kim
Executive Director, Kollaboration
Stand up:
PK was the host of Asian Nights at The World Famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood for three and half years. (Watch ) During that 175 week run, he brought over 10,000 people to the club, many of them seeing stand up comedy live for the first time.
He has performed stand up comedy in over 30 universities across the United State...…