Rim Ji-hoon

Rim Ji-hoon
Hangul 임지훈
Revised Romanization Im Ji-hun
McCune–Reischauer Rim Chi-hun
This is a Korean name; the family name is Rim.

"Jimmy" Rim Ji-hoon (born 28 September 1980) is the CEO of the South Korean company Kakao.[1] He was appointed to this position in August, 2015, at 34 years of age, making him the youngest CEO among South Korea's top 500 companies. The second youngest CEO after Rim is 46 years old.[2]

Rim spent the last decade as a venture capitalist, first at Softbank Ventures and later at K Cube Ventures. A graduate of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, he worked at global consulting firms and Naver, the operator of South Korea's most-visited online search engine, before joining Softbank Ventures in Seoul.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Kakao Changes CEO, Name to Highlight Corporate Identity as Leader in Mobile Market". businesskorea. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  2. ↑ "South Korea's Kakao Talk gets youngest CEO". thetimesofindia.com. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  3. ↑ "South Korea's Kakao Talk gets youngest CEO - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2015-12-28.


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