Professional Experience

Mainstreet Investment Capital
Venture Partner
2020 - Present

I sourced the first U.S. venture deal for a South Korean venture capital firm. I did due diligence and helped recruiting Limited Partners for the deal. I co-invested with DST Global’s Managing Partners ($10B AUM fund; Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, Tomas Stafford, Rahul Mehta, and John Lindfors who are all on the Midas List), Hillhouse Capital investor ($40B AUM fund), Daniel Nadler (CEO of Kensho; the most valuable privately owned artificial intelligence company in history according to Forbes in 2018). Within a month of joining the firm, I was promoted to the partner role to be in charge of the U.S. venture deals.

Access COVID-19
Founder
March 2020 - Present

I created the first website that consolidates global COVID-19 guidelines for people with disabilities. The project has been funded by Harvard Law School Project on Disability and is currently working with Google to write a Think Google article about the intersection between pandemics and disabilities. I was invited to speak about COVID-19/Disability topic at East Asia Disability Studies Forum 2020.

Ethereum Foundation
Growth
December 2019- April 2020

I consulted Ethereum Foundation’s ecosystem growth strategy for young professionals and university students. I conducted design-thinking interviews for the target group and provided guidance and advice to Ethereum Foundation’s core team members during ETHDenver 2020, IDEO CoLab x Ethereum, and Stanford Blockchain Conference.

Dewolfe
CEO, Co-founder
November 2017 – January 2020

Venture-backed cryptocurrency payments gateway startup. I managed over 10 people and rolled out closed-alpha and beta versions of Point-of-Service integrated cryptocurrency payments services to ISENS PC, the biggest internet cafe franchise in South Korea. We managed to exclusively partner with a Point-of-Service company of TheBorn, the biggest restaurant chains in South Korea. We were incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs, and awarded at MIT 100K semi-finalist, MIT Bitcoin Conference Audience Award, Harvard Ventures, Harvard China Forum Finalist, Korean-American Innovative Technology Engineers and Entrepreneurs, and Lair East.

Dewolfe also made the first global blockchain bootcamp in Vietnam along with Coderschool.vn which is the biggest coding academy in Vietnam.

Muui
Board Member, Ex-CEO, Founder
October 2015 - Present

Fortune Global 500 Companies Sponsored Social Enterprise to rebrand disabilities through new technologies. Muui was incubated at Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency. I managed over 20 people to bootstrap the group from nothing when social enterprise was uncommon in South Korea. Along with numerous accolades, Muui received Korea Disability Human Rights Award 2018, the highest honor for disability organizations in South Korea. The group consults Seoul Metropolitan and South Korean Government in regards to Accessibility and Disability issues. Muui made the first interactive wheelchair accessible subway map.

20 States on Wheels
Author, Co-founder
January 2014 - September 2016

A 400-page wheelchair accessible tour guidebook sponsored by Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, Hertz, MGM Grand, Vdara, Hampton Inn, Grand Hyatt New York, and Let’s Go, after a 50-day road trip from San Francisco to Boston. I fundraised from a crowdsourcing platform as a freshman in college. My teammates and I self-published in October 2015 including forwards by disability rights advisor to the U.N., Dr. Michael A. Stein from Harvard Law School. We secured positive reviews by Lonely Planet, The Harvard Magazine, New Mobility Magazine, and The Huffington Post. The free online E-book has been read over 20,000 times over the world and around 3,000 copies of the printed version were donated to any disabled people around the globe who need the information to travel in a wheelchair.