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Fullerton, Ca, Us

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

• Strategic Financial Leadership: Structured the corporate framework to optimize international expansion, establishing the HQ in Singapore, a subsidiary in Korea, and an entity in BVI, ensuring tax and regulatory efficiency for a web3-focused business (web3 game development).• Financial Oversight and Planning: Directed budgeting, financial forecasting, and financial reporting processes, ensuring alignment with growth targets and managing capital effectively to support scaling efforts.• Investor Relations: Served as the primary contact for investors, maintaining robust relationships and managing communication to foster transparency and trust with stakeholders.• Capital Raising and Funding Strategy: Successfully closed multiple funding rounds, including seed, pre-A, and bridge financing to support growth initiatives and product development.• Financial Controls and Compliance: Implemented financial controls, risk management frameworks, and compliance policies to safeguard assets, ensure regulatory adherence, and mitigate financial risks.• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborated with executive and departmental leaders to align financial strategies with operational and growth goals, including HR, marketing, and operations teams.• Team Development and Mentorship: Built and mentored a finance team, fostering talent development to maintain a high-performance financial operations team in a fast-paced, evolving tech environment.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Kr

• OP.GG is a gaming platform that provides the world’s number one game data service, with 45 million gamers each month worldwide. It provides community and data analytics services in over 20 languages, covering major games such as League of Legends, Fortnite, Overwatch, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Starting its service back in 2013, OP.GG is placed 229th in the global website traffic rankings according to Alexa.com.• Financial Oversight and Planning: Managed all aspects of finance and accounting operations including annual budgets, monthly and quarterly financial reporting to the Board of Directors, strategic business plans, and other strategic financial analysis to provide accurate and timely financial and operational recommendations as a strategic business partner to the senior management for decision-making purposes.• Financial Controls and Compliance: Designed and implemented policies, procedures and processes related to internal controls, approval matrix, budgeting, forecasting, and timely and accurate reporting of financial results.• Investor Relations: Managed investor relations related activities including communications with the existing VC investors and potential VC investors.• Capital Raising and Funding Strategy: Successfully closed the series A funding round, raising $10M for its business expansion.

Irvine, California, Us

• Headquartered in Irvine, California, Jehmi employs over 50 employees globally and owns and operates global offices in Seoul, Lisbon, and Bangkok. In its startup phase, Jehmi focused on the development of a prototype white-label content distribution platform that offered creators of digital content, such as games, music, and e-books, the ability to distribute their products to global and emerging markets. The platform also enabled consumers in those markets to pay with their preferred local payment options. Due to a quickly changing marketplace and uncertain financial times, the company shifted its focus in April 2018 to offering blockchain development and services. • Using the Hyperledger Fabric framework, Jehmi, Inc. provides Bezant Foundation Limited with platform development and blockchain-as-a-service solutions for enterprise companies to build dynamic services and applications on top of the Bezant blockchain. This platform also provides an alternative payment tool that utilizes various local payment gateways to facilitate instant payments with Bezant’s Wallet and BZNT Token, which is also being developed by Jehmi, Inc.’s development team in Seoul. Jehmi, Inc. is also building out payment and financial operations in the company’s Bangkok and Hong Kong offices, which includes cross-border remittance, payments, and money transfer services, as well as a currency exchange and peer-to-peer lending.• My area of focus at Jehmi has been to evolve its core business and adapt it to the current global financial environment. With its strength and know-how in software development, we’ve been focusing on creating a robust operating platform capable of delivering growth and profitability. By leveraging Jehmi’s global network and local presence, our partners will be able to easily distribute their products and services to emerging markets; and with the integration of local payment options, users in those market will be able to conveniently purchase those goods and services.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• A global consumer electronics company which specializes in computer hardware and Android-based phones marketed specifically to gamers with an annual revenue of $518M in 2017. Razer is dedicated to the creation and development of products mainly focused on PC gaming such as laptops, various PC peripherals, wearables, accessories, and Razer Phones launched in November 2017. Razer is currently listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange with its Stock Code 1337.HK.• Oversaw all aspects of financial responsibilities in US operations which accounts for over 40% of the global revenue.• Acted as a business partner to management and other departments with a keen focus on supporting while being custodian to the profitability of the sales including gross profits, OPEX, and P&L.• Also acted as a business financial partner to Razer’s acquired companies in the US including THX, Nextbit, and OUYA to guide and support their management teams with financial insights into their business goals and activities.• Provided business financial insights into the US operations through the business reporting and management reporting including Total Channel Cost, OPEX Budget Control, Sales rebate/discount budget control, Channel health trends (growth of sales vs. AR, channel months of supply, etc.), Sales rebate/discount budget control.• Enforced the credit policy that has been set and monitor credit profile of customers, including KYC work on the customer such as annual credit review of customers and screening of customers, where practicable, for any related trade sanctions.• Managed and monitored regional sales and marketing process related approvals e.g. rebate and discount programs, contractual allowances, and MDF programs with major retail channels including Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Fry’s, Micro Center, and other distributors.• Partnered/Assisted the sales and marketing budget DRI’s as the go-to person and also assists any other functional budget DRIs as needed.

• Financial modeling with respect to its game publishing business, including revenue projection of third-party deals (Alibaba, Xiaomi, etc.) and budgeting.• Game publishing revenue/cost recognition and reconciliation (accrual basis).• Reviewed and determined appropriate accounting treatments related to the OUYA business.• Audit preparation work for the financials contained in OUYA’s NetSuite data.• Acted as the main point of contact in the financial due diligence as part of OUYA’s asset sale deal with Razer.

• Smilegate West is wholly owned by Smilegate Holdings Korea, which is well known for its flagship title “Cross Fire”, the world’s most successful free-to-play online game with well over 4.8M concurrent users and over $1B annual revenue. • Smilegate West has two subsidiaries under its management: G4Box in Canada and SG Interactive in USA.• Responsible for all financial operations for the company and its subsidiaries, including financial reporting/analysis to the senior management and HQ, financial planning, investment analysis, internal control, general accounting, and P/L management.• Actively participated in day-to-day operations of live operations to lead and drive the financial performance of each game title in service by regularly providing KPI & P/L analysis of each game and financial perspective to all critical decisions.• Led the annual operating plan/budgeting process and performed regular monthly and quarterly financial forecast and actuals reporting• Also oversaw the operations of the HR team of the company, including recruiting, HR policies and procedures, payroll and benefits, incentive plans, and performance reviews.

• Internally transferred from SG Interactive (USA) to G4Box (Canada) in April 2013 as CEO of the company to oversee the operations of the company. • Led and oversaw day-to-day operations for the company overseeing live operations, marketing & business development, finance, and HR.• Developed 2013 business plan with budgets and successfully executed it with the achievement of both annual revenue goal and operation income margin.• Recruited and expanded the operations manpower from 30 to 60 within budget and deployed cost-effective and scalable live operating structure to successfully launch and operate games according to market specific needs and strategies.• Built numerous core competencies for the company including corporate structure and policies, HR policies, financial reporting/analysis, and P/L management with emphasis on each game’s main KPIs and profitability.

• Established the company from the ground up.• Responsible for driving SGI’s online publishing strategy for North America, including P&L responsibilities for multiple revenue-generating projects. • Developed multi-year strategy and roadmap to effectively compete in the online game space.• Created and deployed a cost-effective and scalable live operating structure for publishing online games.• Launched “Trickster Online” (free-to-play MMORPG), “Grand Chase” (free-to-play action battle), “Pangya” (free-to-play fantasy gold), “Project Blackout” (free-to-play FPS), “Cross Fire” (free-to-play FPS).• Built numerous core competencies for SGI including corporate structure and policies, financial reporting and analysis, industry networking and business development, online payment processing, and live operations. • Created strategic external relationships for game sourcing, live operations, network operations, content delivery, and payment processing.