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Youngjin Kim
The chairman of BOD
Youngjin Kim is Chairman & CEO of Handok Inc. Founded in 1954, Handok has led the advancement of Korean pharmaceutical industry through key partnerships with industry-leading global pharmaceutical companies and the early adoption of global standard systems.
Youngjin Kim began his career in 1984 at Hoechst AG, then a joint venture partner of Handok, and has served in various leadership roles within Handok’s joint ventures throughout his career before being appointed Chairman & CEO of Handok in 2006.
Recognized as a leader in the industry, Youngjin has been honored with numerous recognitions, including the Prime Minister’s Citation in 2000 for his contribution to Korea’s industrial development and the Bronze Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit in 2005 for improving cooperation between labor and management.
Youngjin is President of Handok Jeseok Foundation since 2014. He has also served as President of KDG (Korean-German Society) since 2010.
Youngjin graduated from Yonsei University in Korea with a BA in business administration in 1979. He earned his MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 1984 and also received the award of Distinguished Alumni Fellows from the university. Youngjin completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1996.
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Sungjune Hong
Executive, CEO
Sungjune is an executive board member of Genexine, and he is responsible for all managerial support functions of the company, including financial strategy, accounting, investor and public relations, legal and SCM.
Sungjune previously served as President and COO of ROKIT Healthcare, where he supervised all managerial functions of the company. Before joining ROKIT, Sung June was CFO at Handok, Schneider Electric and Nike Korea. He began his professional career as a certified public accountant at Arthur Andersen.
Sungjune holds an MBA and BA in Business Administration from Yonsei University. He also received an LLM from Vanderbilt Law School. Sungjune is a member of KICPA, AICPA, and New York Bar.
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Jaehyun Choi
Executive, CEO
Jaehyun is an executive board member of Genexine, and he is Head of R&D is in charge of all R&D-related divisions of the company, including Genexine's bio laboratory and clinical development headquarters, based on over 15 years of diverse experience working in the biotech industry in the United States, Canada, and Korea.
Before joining Genexine, Jaehyun worked at LG Chem, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, and Trillium Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy drug development company, where he secured expertise in anticancer drug research and development. In particular, he has expertise in target protein degradation biology and PROTAC target selection at Arvinas, and served as CEO of EPD Biotherapeutics, strengthening his expertise in management as well as research and development.
Jaehyun graduated from the Department of Microbiology at Seoul National University with a bachelor's and master's degree and received his doctorate from the University of Toronto.
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Jinkeon Pai
Non-Executive
Dr. Pai Jinkeon graduated from the Department of Biochemistry of Yonsei University in 1974 and received Ph.D. at the School of Pharmacy, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1982. Since 1986 Dr. Pai has worked as a senior researcher at Schering-Plough in the United States for 24 years.
Since returning to Korea in 2008, he served as Executive Director of R&D, JW Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and CEO of C&C New Drug Development Research Institute. Dr. Pai was essential in introducing open innovation at Handok Pharmaceuticals for five years. After retiring at Handok, he was the Vice President of the Abnoa Research Institute in Korea. He currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Innocure Therapeutics and an in-house board director. He is also helping startups as the head of the Technology Assessment Team at the WoojungBio New Drug Discovery Cluster.
He published 'Development of New Medicine to Save People' and 'Basic Story of Saving People in COVID-19' and has written more than 400 columns for ordinary people.
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Hoyeong Song
Non-Executive
Hoyeong Song earned his Ph.D. in biology from Purdue University in the U.S. and has 30 years of experience working for startups in biologics and ADC drug discovery and development, existing biopharma, and global multinationals. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tularik Inc. (Amgen SF) in the U.S. and then as a senior research scientist at Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, later serving as vice president of Samsung Bioepis and CSO of Curon Biopharmaceuticals in China. Currently, he serves as CSO at Jinquantum Healthcare and contributes to the Chinese biotechnology industry.