Paul Kang Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, New York, Us

Current focus on family portfolio management. Shifting from PE/quantitative to VC. Continuing direct investments in health sciences, enabling technology, private equity situations, RE. Interim CEO XCUR.Established as NY merchant bank bringing together partners from technology, media, and B2C/B2B -- originally named "Convergence Capital" as early proponent of digital convergence. In collaboration with iRG, established offices in NY, Seoul, HK, Tokyo, Singapore, SF and London.- Became a leader in cross-border transactions between Asia and the U.S. and Europe.- Adviser to leading groups (Daewoo, LG, Samsung), SMEs such as Pulmuone and NHN, and international companies such as ICAP and EDS.- Played significant role in attracting $billions in direct capital to Korea/Asia during Asia Financial Crisis.- Innovative Korean transactions include first sale of a publicly-traded company (Chunjin) to a foreigner, largest media transaction (Pusan Broadcasting), leading Internet transaction (Nowcom), most successful Korean buyout in U.S. (American Tape), and establishment of first interdealer broker with foreign participation.- Led AltaCap.com, a leading Internet incubator and Teletech investor in U.S./Asia with revenues of $25m and 150+ people. Investor returns approached 1000% until "Internet Crash."- CIO role in large-scale restructuring fund collaboration between Julius Capital and Merrill Lynch.- Adviser to Korean government on long-term vision and financial industry structure, including input into bank privatizations and investment in Lehman.- Selected by Korean Ministry of Commerce to promote foreign direct investment (alongside KPMG, Nomura, Arthur Andersen).- Advised WP Carey in initial introduction of Korea to sale-leaseback transactions.- Early adviser to KAMCO in management of troubled assets.

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New York, New York, Us

- Advised on establishment of Pitney Bowes reinsurance using innovative structure including unpaid preferred.- Led acquisition for KBL Healthcare Acquisition Corp. yielding 100% returns, an early success for SPAC industry.- Lieutenant to Jeff Dulude in development of technology companies, including T1 Systems (a leader in large scale IVR systems, precursor to video server platform architecture) where led development and implementation of innovative flow-control CASE platform. Developed pioneering architecture and solutions for distributed systems requiring big data.- Senior working level for GS acquisition of savings banks to circumvent Glass-Steagall.- Senior working level for leading clients including FNMA, CrossLand Savings, BNE.- Brought use of infinite loops in spreadsheets to pro forma modeling

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Brands included Safeguard soap and Biz bleach.- Led Division New Product effort for laundry cleaning products.- Led collaboration with Hill & Knowlton and Burson & Marsteller to calculate "advertising value" of public relations (leading to increased PR expenditures, calculations widely adopted by industry).- Developed concept of combining trial with stocking strategy to retain new/old customers by reducing switching.- Initiated use of correlation/statistical analysis to evaluate promotion effectiveness -- leading to increased focus on display, reduced TPR, and testing of everyday low pricing strategy.- Led development of displayable shipping containers (outside printing, perforated).

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Ab, Applied Mathematics