Hyuk-Jeen Suh, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Head of Samsung Ventures East Coast, Samsung Ventures

Hyuk-Jeen Suh founded and was the Head of the East Coast office for Samsung Ventures, which is the corporate venture arm of Samsung. He bringing over 20 years of industry experience in consumer electronics, biotech, and semiconductor. Before joining Samsung Ventures, Hyuk-Jeen worked at J.P. Morgan investment banking. He led global business development efforts at a semiconductor startup, MEMSIC, contributing to a successful IPO in 2007. Prior to joining MEMSIC, Hyuk-Jeen was a senior research engineer at Sequenom, a biotech startup. He began his career at Intel Corporation as a process engineer. He advises startup companies and speaks at universities including Yale, Harvard, and MIT. A selection of his investments include Adhawk, Callidus (acquired by Amicus Therapeutics), Carbon Design Systems (acquired by ARM), Cloudant (acquired by IBM), Fixmo (acquired by Good Technology), Ionic Materials, Maluuba (acquired by Microsoft), Magisto (acquired by Vimeo), Noom, Rounds (acquired by Kik), and WellDoc. Hyuk-Jeen earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MBA from Yale School of Management, B.S. in mechanical engineering, B.A in economics and M.E in electrical engineering, all from Cornell University.