Paul Kim Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Webtoon is the global leader & largest player in web-comics and web-novels with 170M users each month enjoying our 50M+ titles through our mobile app and the web. We have over 24 million creators on our platform, who have been paid a revenue share of over $2.8 billion since 2017. We've innovated the web-comic space with a highly-engaging vertical scroll format that is perfect for viewing on mobile phones, and our stories & IP are successfully being brought to other formats including books, animations, toys, TV series, and movies. Our service is especially popular with Gen Z and young Millennials, who have helped us grow into the industry leader that we are today. The company is public on Nasdaq (WBTN) and is owned in part by Naver Corporation ("Korea's Google"), the largest internet company in South Korea. Download the App on iOS or Android, or go to Webtoons.com from any browser.I'm leading global Business Development & Partnerships for Webtoon. Currently, I'm focused especially on growing our users in North America via large scale partnerships with mainstream industry verticals, including Telecom, Transportation, Hospitality, OTT / Streaming Services, Sports, Health, Retail, Internet, Big Brands, Gaming, Technology, and more. Please reach out if you'd like to catch up and chat!Email: paul.kim1 at Webtoon.com.

Garden Grove, California, Us

RocketCart is a VC-funded Korean grocery delivery company that provides free next-morning delivery to your doorstep through our friendly drivers! Get the widest selection of Korean groceries, meats, produce, banchan, and more at RocketCart.com. We currently deliver to all of LA and Orange County, CA., and to many parts of Riverside, Ventura, and San Bernardino Counties (expanding soon). Try us out today!We are funded by several of the top early-stage VCs, as well as founders of 3 well-known Decacorn & Unicorn eCommerce companies, who believe in our mission and vision. The company is led by a team of serial entrepreneurs who have built industry-leading companies and have had successful exits.

Naver Corporation is the largest internet, search, and content company in South Korea, and at a ~$40 Billion public market value, it's one of the 10 largest companies in the country. It wholly or partially-owns companies including LINE Corporation (LINE Messenger), SNOW (video messenger), BAND (leading group communication app), Moot (community platform for games), and many other companies & services.In North America, NAVER BAND Inc. is particularly focused on growing BAND (https://band.us) through high-value partnerships. BAND is 100% FREE, and it's one of the largest group & team communication apps in the world, w/ over 100 million app downloads and 40 million groups created. We are especially keen on developing partners in the Education and Sports ecosystem (e.g. Youth/Adult Teams & Leagues, Sporting Events, Sports Ecosystem Companies, etc). Please reach out to me if you think there's a good fit.

Paris, Idf, Fr

I left Westfield in February, 2018. I was formerly the Vice President / Head of Business Development & Partnerships.

Paris, Idf, Fr

I head up Business Development & Partnerships for Westfield Retail Solutions, which is a 200+ person product & technology organization within Westfield Corporation (REIT) that is transforming commerce by connecting people, retailers, and brands in ways that unlock value and bridges the digital & physical worlds like never before. Westfield Corporation is one of the largest REIT / Shopping Center Developers & Operators in the world with $60 billion of assets consisting of Iconic Shopping Centers around the world and hosts nearly a billion offline visits per year. Our centers are in iconic locations including New York (World Trade Center), London, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles.In particular, I am focusing much of my time in the following areas:- Audience Partnerships: Largest mobile apps & services, mobile ad platforms, broadly-proliferated mobile SDKs & tools.- Location & Proximity Partnerships: Location Infrastructure, Beacons & Sensors, SDKs, etc.- Data Partnerships: DMPs, Data Partners (Location, Behavioral, Purchase, other), Data Sources, etc.- Advertising Ecosystem: DSPs, DMPs, SSPs, etc.- Retail & Other Technologies (AR / VR, AI, General Retail Tech, Loyalty, etc.).

Nido Labs is a technology startup company in Silicon Valley that creates integrated health & fitness solutions to enable everyone to live healthy and fulfilled lives. Our first product, the Alpha Trainer mobile app for iOS & Android, which has ~ 500,000 downloads and was prominently featured by Apple on the front canvas, as well as the health & fitness sections in various countries, is the most advanced fitness & personal training app that creates a customized, 14-week personal training program for everyone based on the user's unique goals & constraints. With over 100,000 customized program combinations, Alpha Trainer possesses the largest database of customized fitness content available. It also combines fitness with social motivation through our messaging & gifting platform. Alpha Trainer is available at http://alphatrainerapp.com or at your favorite app store.Alpha Trainer's large database of customized Fitness content is available to be licensed by companies via API. Contact us for more information. More cool and innovative products coming soon.

Incognia (formerly known as In Loco) is the global leader in location technology & intelligence via mobile SDK; brought on following $20M in Series B financing in June 2019 led by Naspers, Valor Capital, and others. Incognia’s location technology offers private location awareness for use in mobile applications and connected devices. Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/company/incognia/about/

Mentor at #1 Pan-Asia Startup Accelerator. Spark Labs' demo days are legendary and the largest globally, drawing thousands of investors, journalists, and business people.

Strategic Advisor to Management Team of a profitable and innovative payments company that allows consumers to pay for online purchases (e.g. within an online game or commerce site) with 100+ top gift cards, including Starbucks, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, GameStop, Kohl's, etc. There is over $40 Billion in unused gift card volume in the US today, so unlocking this value for online purchases is a big opportunity, and PayGarden is the first company to do this with such a broad footprint of gift cards.

Strategic Advisor to management team of a VC-funded, innovative technology company that allows users to interact seamlessly via fun, clickable "Inmoji" (branded icons) directly within users' conversations within messaging applications and services. A user simply taps on an Inmoji to access branded content without ever leaving a message. Adweek named Inmoji "one of the top five Adtech companies to watch at CES" in 2015. The company is funded by multiple VC and strategic investors.

KickMetrics is a technology company focused on the sports & activities market for both youths & adults. We provide coaches with customizable, online Player Evaluation Forms for every major sport & activity to evaluate all the players on a team and provide tools to make this process fast and easy. Moreover, we provide detailed data visualization & analyses through our Analytics Dashboard that provide both Coaches, Players, & Parents confidential access to information to help maximize Player Development, such as team ranking based on each individual criteria (e.g. dribbling, shooting, passing, etc.), historical performance data, areas of improvement & decline, and much more. The best part is that Coaches and Teams can start for free and stay free - or upgrade to get more features for a little more. Currently, we have a wide variety of teams and groups using KickMetrics, from sports teams (e.g. soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, football, etc.) to ballet/dance studios, gymnastics, and even educational & music studios. Check it out at KICKMETRICS.COM.

[ Promoted to EVP from SVP after 3.5 months ] I'm on the executive management team and run Business Development & Marketing for a disruptive, $30M+ VC-funded mobile commerce company that is leading Mobile-to-Offline ( M2O / O2O ) shopping, with highly targeted retailer and CPG coupons & offers. In addition, the company owns IP that allows all scanners (including 1D bar code scanners) at retail stores to read ALL barcodes directly from mobile phones (e.g. coupons, loyalty cards, gift cards, etc.). The technology is currently embedded in all of Samsung's next-generation phones (210M+ smartphones & expanding quickly), and the company is working with the top CPGs and other coupon, loyalty, and retail partners. Mobeam also launched Beep'nGo, a leading Retailer & Brand Offer App that provides exclusive, national, and local discounts, coupons, & offers from the top retailers, brands, and CPGs across the US and abroad (e.g. Macy's, Staples, Procter & Gamble, etc.), and we have obtained ~ 8 million downloads in about 9 months since launch. We're working hard to become the premier mobile offer targeting platform for brands and partners. Mobeam was acquired by Samsung Electronics recently, after our technology was integrated into over 500 million devices.

I'm on the executive management team and run Business Development & Marketing for a disruptive, $30M+ VC-funded mobile commerce company that is leading Mobile-to-Offline ( M2O / O2O ) shopping, with highly targeted retailer and CPG coupons & offers. In addition, the company owns IP that allows all scanners (including 1D bar code scanners) at retail stores to read ALL barcodes directly from mobile phones (e.g. coupons, loyalty cards, gift cards, etc.). The technology is currently embedded in all of Samsung's next-generation phones (210M+ smartphones & expanding quickly), and the company is working with the top CPGs and other coupon, loyalty, and retail partners. Mobeam also launched Beep'nGo, a leading Retailer & Brand Offer App that provides exclusive, national, and local discounts, coupons, & offers from the top retailers, brands, and CPGs across the US and abroad (e.g. Macy's, Staples, Procter & Gamble, etc.), and we have obtained ~ 8 million downloads in about 9 months since launch. We're working hard to become the premier mobile offer targeting platform for brands and partners. Mobeam was acquired by Samsung Electronics recently, after our technology was integrated into over 500 million devices.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

KreditFly is an innovative, VC-funded mobile payment service for web and mobile app-based content that blends fast & secure purchases, flexible funding sources (e.g. credit/debit cards, bank accounts, prepaid), and a rules-based "Micro-credit" feature that grants users short-term credit to cheaply acquire them as a customer. Our clients include some of the largest companies in mobile games, online games, & digital media. Funded by Altos Ventures, ATA Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.

BilltoMobile® is the US leader in mobile payments & mobile billing that is funded by top-tier US venture capital and Danal, a strategic investor that started the concept of billing online purchases to the mobile phone bill in South Korea in 2000. BilltoMobile is the only mobile billing provider to be integrated into the top 5 US mobile carriers' billing systems, and through a network of affiliates globally, the company provides mobile payments & billing services to consumers in over 80 countries and across hundreds of mobile carrier partners. In addition, BilltoMobile (Danal, Inc.) is now a leader in the burgeoning mobile identity and authentication space via its close mobile carrier partner relationships.Paul founded BilltoMobile® (Danal, Inc.) and orchestrated the company's $9.5 million Series-A funding in the U.S. Paul strives to instill the company with his passion for success and vision for innovating the payment industry. Furthermore, in February 2010, Paul completed the successful and profitable sale of BilltoMobile® back to Danal Co., Ltd., after establishing the company as the clear leader in the space (http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/02/24/koreas-danal-to-buy-controlling-stake-in-its-mobile-payment-spin-off/).

Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Kr

Worked as an expatriate @ Samsung Electronics @ its Headquarters and R&D centers, focused on Corporate Development, which consisted primarily of Venture Capital Investments and Business Development activities across all of its key business units. Worked closely with key teams in Mobile, Semiconductors (System LSI), Digital Media, Technology Alliance, Finance, Marketing, & HR.

Shelton, Ct, Us

MBA Summer marketing intern for a leader in the heath, fitness, and wellness industries. The company has raised over $100 million to date and provides wearable technologies (including the Pebble+ activity tracker), services, and wellness programs for consumers and corporations. FitLinxx also provides proprietary tracking technologies for fitness and wellness facilities, schools, hotels, and other locations.

I worked in various functional roles as a management consultant and as an employee at technology companies in the internet, telecom, and payments industries.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy & Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics And Political Science (Double Major)