CEO and culture carrier with a track record of founding and growing new businesses in the creative industry that unlock value and new revenue streams for iconic media, sports and art enterprises through brand extensions, strategic partnerships, agile product launches and turnaround of operations.Founded 5 companies in the music and education space, including BrandEd Holdings, which owns Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The School of the New York Times, City Football Leadership Institute (with Manchester City Football Club) and The Vogue School (part of Condé Nast College), and Bach To Rock, a chain of franchised music schools for kids with 60 locations across the US – all under the Cambridge Information Group umbrella. Extensive experience in M&A, private equity and portfolio management involving multi-billions in asset value. Key strategic and operating skills include building, developing and mentoring high performing teams, strategic planning, global operations management, business development, product development, franchising, start-up leadership, license agreements and operations turnaround/restructuring.Board Member of KACF (Korean American Community Foundation), a grant making organization with a mission to support sub-scale nonprofits serving the broader Asian American community and ARK Solves, a NYC-based nonprofit focused on solving the hunger crisis in the Philippines.Multi-cultural background with a passion for music, learning, toys, scuba diving and philosophy. Been DJ-ing since youth and have performed sets/held residencies in NYC (including Central Park for roller skaters in the summer), Washington DC, London, Seoul, Manila and Ottawa. Assiduous collector of vinyl records with a particular focus on 12-inch extended remixes of dance tracks spanning a wide range of genres from 70s Soul, R&B, Disco, 80s New Wave, Japanese City Pop, Manila OPMs and all variations of House Music.