Staff
Drew Paik
Executive Director
Drew has a degree in English and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He spent over 25 years in Silicon Valley, leading sales and marketing teams for companies, such as Microsoft, NetIQ, McAfee, Postini, and Google. Drew enjoys traveling and cooking, especially Korean recipes taught by his mother.
Work Superpower: Tackling complex issues and breaking them down into manageable pieces
Life Joys: Falling asleep binge watching his favorite shows and movies
Fun Facts: Flew over 1 million miles before the age of 27
Professional Background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewpaik
Eunyoung Choi
Finance & Operations Manager
Eunyoung received a bachelor’s degree from Inha University majoring in Industrial Automation. She then worked as a software engineer for several Korean companies for eight years. She then took an 8-year hiatus from working after moving to the U.S. in 2010 to raise her son. Eunyoung’s favorite way to start the day is with a good work-out. Though she enjoys being active, she also finds time to enjoy creative and calm hobbies, such as hand stitching Korean silk fabrics.
Work Superpower: loves to wrestle with numbers and lightens up the mood in any situation.
Life Joys: High Intensity Workout, love to learn new things, Island and ocean and a cup of coffee!
Fun Facts: can’t stay still when there's music.
Professional Background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eun-young-choi-1b89273a/
Seung Yeoun 'Amy' Lee
Program Manager
Amy oversees the foundation's grantmaking portfolio by working closely with grantee partners. Community building is at the core of Amy's approach and she believes that philanthropy should extend beyond monetary contributions, emphasizing collaboration and partnership. Amy holds an MA in International Studies from Seoul National University and a BA in Psychology from Ateneo de Manila University. At her free time, Amy loves discovering new trails and parks around the Bay Area with her husband and three children.
Work Superpower: I can type with one hand, while holding a toddler and entertaining him, while on a Zoom conference call.
Life Joys: Discovering new trails and parks around the Bay Area with her husband and three children.
Fun Facts: Met her husband because of an obscure Simpsons reference.
Professional Background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seungyeounlee/
Board of Directors
The governing body of leaders who help achieve the vision and mission of KACF-SF.
Sung Jin Ingriselli
Sung Jin Suhr Ingriselli recently retired from Chevron Corporation, where she worked for over 39 years in various executive and leadership positions. She led many of Chevron’s global IT applications and architecture initiatives which serve over 20,000 users in 24 countries. Most recently, she was in charge of IT and digital technology for the Enterprise Health, Safety & Environment functions within Chevron worldwide. In that capacity, she digitally transformed the Health, Safety and Environment area utilizing data science, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. She currently serves as Executive VP at Global Venture Investments L.L.C., an energy consulting firm. Additionally, she is the President of Brightening Lives Foundation Inc, a public charitable foundation dedicated to globally promoting health, education, and environmental sustainability.
Sung Jin previously served on the Board of Trustees at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco where she played a significant role in the Museum’s Transformation Committee enabling the successful execution of the Museum’s $40 million expansion project.
She has been serving as a Board member at the Korean American Community Foundation in San Francisco (KACF-SF) since 2017 and was elected as the board chair effective on January 1, 2024.
Andrew Kim
Secretary
Andrew Kim serves as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, General Counsel and Company Secretary of NETGEAR. Prior to joining NETGEAR, Mr. Kim served as Special Counsel in the Corporate and Securities Department of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he represented public and private technology companies in a wide range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing arrangements, securities law compliance and corporate governance. In between two terms at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, he served as Partner in the Business and Finance Department of Schwartz Cooper Chartered in Chicago, Illinois, and was an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Kim began practicing law with the New York firms Thacher Proffitt & Wood and Morgan Lewis & Bockius, advising clients on all aspects of corporate and securities law. Mr. Kim holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and received a B.A. degree in history from Yale University.
Thomas Cho
Tom is a Managing Director and Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) M&A Group for Deutsche Bank based in San Francisco. Tom has more than 25 years of experience in the investment banking industry and is currently responsible for originating and executing M&A and strategic advisory engagements in the broader TMT sector for US and International clients.
After receiving his BSc. from the University of California at Berkeley, Tom started his career in New York before moving to San Francisco in 1997, and worked for Morgan Stanley, UBS and Credit Suisse before ultimately joining Deutsche Bank in 2004. Tom and his wife currently live in the Peninsula part of the Bay Area with their 2 daughters.
Perry Ha
Perry Ha is the founder and Managing Director of Draper Athena. He has been an active
venture investor since 1997 and has invested and served on the board of many
successful companies both public and private. His investment area spans across
software, data analytics, semiconductors, cleantech, life sciences, AI, web3 and
education. Having served as CEO at portfolio companies three times during his
investment career, he brings his operational knowledge into his investments. He serves
as an advisor or a board member at several companies. And, he is as the chairman of
Juvenis, Inc. and Knowledge AI.
Prior to venture capital, he was a management consultant and advised global clients
manage their technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he lead a
product development team at Amicon, a life science devices company, which was
acquired by Millipore in 1994. He was granted two patents during the R&D tenure.
He actively supports MIT who provided him the educational foundation to achieve the
American dream when he was a recent immigrant. He chaired his Class Reunion
Campaign for multiple years; served on numerous Visiting Committees; served on the
MIT Board of Trustees as Chair of the Education Visiting Committee. He currently serves
on Corporate Development Committee, Alumni Association Corporate Nominations
Committee, and on the Leadership Board of MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
He actively supports Korean Americans. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and
conferences in Korea and the US; and mentors several Korean CEOs. He served as the
Board Chair of KACF-SF (Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco),
is an advisor to the Bay Area K-Group, and is a founding Board Member of CKA
(Council of Korean Americans). He is a Distinguished Honorary Professor at Sookmyung
Women’s University and is a recipient of the Order of Civil Merit from the President of
South Korea.
He earned BS and MS from MIT and MBA from Harvard Business School. He was the
captain of his collegiate volleyball team and was selected to NCAA East Coast All-
American third team. He is a life-long student and teacher of Taekwondo, a Korean
martial art of which he is a certified master instructor. He lives in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
Sophia Oh-Kim
Sophia has more than 15 years of experience serving in the leadership position of non-profits. She was a board member of the Korean Art and Culture Committee at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for 10+ years. During her tenure, Sophia served as board chair and gala chair, helping to raise funds for the acquisition of Korean art and to elevate the department collection to a world-class standard. Sophia was the managing director of Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), a leading professional networking organization in Silicon Valley, which connects high-tech professionals in the Pacific Rim countries. While there, Sophia expanded AAMA’s offering of events and programs to increase membership base and sponsor income, and was responsible for planning and hosting AAMA’s 30th anniversary gala.
Sophia’s professional background is in finance and economics research. She was the controller of a medical group, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Associates, Palo Alto; worked as senior financial analyst at Crocker National Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco; and was assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She earned a B.A. in economics from Smith College, and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of Business.
So Yong Park
Yehbin Song
Yehbin is a Manager Director of Operations at Stanford Management Company (SMC), the office within Stanford University responsible for investing Stanford’s Endowment and other financial assets. In her role, she oversees Finance, Human Resources, IT, Administration, and School & Department Funds teams. She was also previously Director of Stanford’s Charitable Trust Program in the Office of Development. She is currently a member of the Charitable Trust Program Oversight Committee.
Before joining Stanford, she worked in corporate finance at Gap Inc., private equity at American Capital Strategies, and investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Yehbin holds a B.S. in Economics from MIT and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Caroline Shin
Caroline is a seasoned travel and hospitality executive who is passionate about building companies that embrace technology to deliver a stellar customer experience. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Vacatia, a resort marketplace for vacationing families. Previously, she was the lead website architect on the startup team at Hotwire.com and later managed supplier relations and P&L for the company. As senior vice president at Sentient Jet, she oversaw client services and command center operations, and launched a new technology platform for flight management. She also led global CRM and revenue management functions for Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Recently, Caroline co-founded Store Vantage, a SaaS scheduling and CRM system for service businesses. Caroline spent her early career as a technology and strategy consultant at Accenture and Scient, working with Fortune 500 and startup clients.
Catharina Min
Catharina Yoosun Min is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and specializes in
mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, emerging companies, joint ventures, strategic
alliances and other corporate transactions. She has extensive experience in cross-
border transactions with companies located in Asia, Europe and Africa.
She is the vice chair of the Venture Capital/Emerging Companies practice group.
She also serves as a co-chair of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion..
She has been active in the Korean-American community. Notably, she is a co-founder
and past Chair of the Board of the Council of Korean Americans (CKA), past Overseas
President of International Association of Korean Lawyers (IAKL), past President of
Korean American Bar Association of Northern California (KABANC) and Korean
American Chamber of Commerce (KACC).
Catharina graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1990 where she
was an editor of Virginia Law Review and from the University of Virginia College of Arts
& Sciences where she double majored in English and Rhetoric and Communication
Studies.
Board Emeritus
Former Board members who provide sustained support, guidance, and leadership.
Brian Byun
Brian is currently an Executive in Residence at Khosla Ventures. He was a member of the executive staff at VMware leading a broad range of products, partnerships, and business development roles from 2003-2013. Previously, he held various leadership and engineering roles at technology startups, Netscape Communications and Hewlett Packard. He holds a BSEE degree from MIT.
Yoon Cho
Yoon is an internist in private practice in Santa Clara. She grew up in Seoul, Korea, and received an M.D. from Ewha Women’s University, School of Medicine. After graduation, she moved to the U.S. and trained in Internal Medicine at San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton, CA. She is Board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Yoon and her husband, also an internist, have two teenage daughters. In her spare time, Yoon loves to travel, read books, and spend time with friends.
Patrick Kim
Patrick has nearly 20 years of experience in various aspects of the business world including in trade/ import, marketing and sales, and strategic partnerships. He has worked in telecommunications and finance industries as well as in wholesale distribution of grocery and general merchandise (a family-owned business). Patrick is currently working in the financial service industry.
Patrick has served on the boards of numerous nonprofits, including the Korean American Coalition, Los Angeles; Korean American Family Services (LA); and American Lung Association.Patrick was born in Seoul and settled in the U.S. with his family first in Tampa and then in Fairbanks, Alaska. He lived most of his life in Southern California and received his BA in economics from University of California, Berkeley. He moved to the Bay Area from Los Angeles in 2016 with his wife and their three children.
Michael Kim
Michael is President of AssetMark and leads the firm’s Client Success Group which is focused on creating opportunities that expand and deepen AssetMark’s engagement with advisors and help advisors enhance their business and client experiences. AssetMark’s Client Success Group includes sales, sales strategy and enablement, enterprise sales and distribution, marketing, business consulting, new channel development, and client segmentation.
Michael has over 25 years of experience working with financial advisors in various capacities. Prior to joining AssetMark, he was a Senior Vice President at Fidelity Investments, responsible for Sales Management, Relationship Management and Practice Management. Michael started his professional career at Coopers & Lybrand, LLC.
Michael received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA and is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Jennifer Lin
Jennifer currently leads Product Management for cloud network services at Juniper Networks and participates in several open source industry efforts to drive Cloud/NFV market adoption. Prior to joining Juniper through the acquisition of Contrail Systems, Jennifer was on the initial team and VP, Product Management of Contrail Systems, where she led the product management and marketing activities. Prior to Juniper and Contrail, Jennifer was Senior Director of Product Marketing at Cisco, where she led the Product Management and Technical Marketing teams for Cisco's Connected Energy Networks, Wireless Networking/Mobility Services, and Enterprise Routing BUs. She has led numerous partner ecosystems to drive market adoption of wireless/mobility services, sensor networks (loT) and application services. Prior to Cisco, Jennifer led teams in technical, operations and strategic marketing roles at Intel and web startups.
Jennifer earned a BSE from Princeton University and an MSE from Stanford University. She lives in Los Altos Hills, CA and enjoys being outdoors with her husband and three young sons.
E. John Park
John is a partner at Morgan Lewis' Business and Finance Practice. His practice focuses on corporate and securities laws, including private placement, public securities offerings, recapitalizations and mergers and acquisitions. He works with companies in varying industries on a wide range of matters including initial formation, venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, the periodic reporting requirements of publicly held companies and general corporate counseling. He has represented both acquirers and targets in a variety of public-private and private-private business combination transactions, as well as issuers and venture capitalist firms in private security offerings. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, John was with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP in Palo Alto.
John received his J.D. from the University of Virginia. He earned his M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and his B.A. from Williams College.
Advisors
Leaders who lend their advice and expertise. 
Sophia Chang
Sophia is currently Chief Clinical Informatics Officer at Clover Health. Previously, she was Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at CareMore Health Plan, where she was responsible for innovating service delivery in a unique payer‐provider environment and focused on using technology to scale CareMore’s model of care and developing new approaches to serve Medicaid populations.
Prior to joining CareMore, Sophia was Vice President of Programs at the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), where she led programmatic and grantmaking activities. Her previous positions include vice president and medical director of population health solutions at Accretive Health, director of the Veterans Health Administration's Center for Quality Management in Public Health, director of the HIV/AIDS program for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; medical director of the San Francisco Health Plan, and director of AIDS Health Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She also has worked as a medical researcher, examining health disparities in breast cancer care. Sophia continues to practice general internal medicine at San Francisco General Hospital as a UCSF faculty member.Sophia holds a bachelor's degree from Amherst College; a master of public health from the University of California, Berkeley; and a medical doctorate from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Taeku Lee
Taeku is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research methods, and political participation and social movements. He has written or edited Mobilizing Public Opinion (2002); Transforming Politics, Transforming America (with Ricardo Ramirez and Karthick Ramakrishnan, 2006), Why Americans Don't Join the Party (with Zoltan Hajnal, 2011), Accountability through Public Opinion (with Sina Odugbemi, 2011), and Asian American Political Participation (with Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Jane Junn, 2011). He has served in various leadership, advisory, and consultative capacities including the Board of the American National Election Studies, the Board of the General Social Survey and the Council of the American Political Science Association. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School. Taeku was born in South Korea, grew up in rural Malaysia, Manhattan, and suburban Detroit, and is a proud graduate of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (A.B.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).
Jasmine Kim
Jasmine Kim currently serves as an advisor at DigiTx Partners and as an EIR at Digital DX Ventures, at the intersection of healthcare and digital innovations. Most recently, Jasmine served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Sutter Health, and has, for the past decade, worked extensively in delivering transformative customer engagement experience, in digital media and commerce, from health care & wellness, hospitality, to consumer services. She has made her mark, being the translator and the integrator of emerging and disruptive product & services, technology platforms, processes, and most importantly, people, to scale renowned businesses worldwide.
Jasmine has led many intrapreneurial and innovation initiatives in Fortune 100 companies, as well as accelerating venture-backed start-ups to scale. She has held senior marketing and general management operating roles with Sutter Health, Johnson & Johnson, Expedia, Yahoo!, and P&G. "Make the complex simple, and the simple compelling" is her north star.
She also serves on boards and advises on digital health, wellness, and therapeutic companies.
Jasmine completed her dual undergraduate degree in Economics and Art History at Wellesley College, and her MBA from Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, and UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Kenneth Kim
Dr. Kenneth Kim (he/him) is Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at GLIDE Foundation, where he is responsible for driving the implementation of our 5-year strategic plan, GLIDE Forward, and serve as the in-house consultant to lead strategic projects across the organization. This includes ensuring alignment and direction of innovation and expansion projects with organizational strategy as well as infuse design thinking into planning activities and implementation of related activities, services, and systems. He joined GLIDE as Clinical Director in 2015. Kenneth has represented GLIDE as a member of the Community Advisory Committee for TLHIP, Street-Level Drug Dealing Task Force, Alternative to Police Funding Steering Committee, as well as other collaborations with Bay Area community-based organizations and city agencies. He has advised on city initiatives including overdose prevention sites and Mental Health SF and currently serves on the Board of Supervisor’s Drug Dealing Task Force. Kenneth is board member at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and an advisor for the Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco.
Kenneth is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in community mental health, foster care system, and treatment of trauma and has worked in human services for over 20 years. His volunteer, training, and work experience include but not limited to programs addressing violence prevention, severe mental illness, substance use, psychological evaluation, and crisis intervention. Kenneth earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley and bachelor’s degree in Social Work from UC Davis.
Hyun Park
Hyun Park, with over 28 years in the legal sector, served from November 2006 to February 2017 as senior vice president and general counsel for PG&E Corporation and its businesses, including its principal subsidiary, Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Prior to joining PG&E Corporation in 2006, he was vice president, general counsel and secretary at Allegheny Energy, Inc. Hyun previously served as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Sithe Energies, Inc. He also was a partner with the law firm of Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate transactions and finance.Hyun is a graduate of Harvard Law School. In addition, he holds a graduate degree in economics from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Columbia University. He is a member of the State Bar of California and serves on the board of directors of the SF-Marin Food Bank.
Kyung H. Yoon
Kyung is a widely recognized global leader in executive search, coaching, leadership and other strategic solutions for organizations seeking innovative leadership. Kyung is founder and chief executive officer of Talent Age Associates. The firm provides CEO, board and senior-level executive searches, along with leadership coaching and interim financial expertise. Kyung has unparalleled access to the very top-level executives and corporate directors due to her past and current extensive board experience as a director of Silicon Vally Bank (NASDAQ:SIVB), MCM Worldwide/Sungjoo Group, Mobile Money Ventures, and as Trustee, Former Chairman and President of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), Advisory Board of Asia Society of Northern California and Stanford Business School SPRIE (Stanford Program for Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship). She provides her boards and clients with the role of strategic, trusted advisor and provides a unique, global perspective to business challenges and opportunities. Kyung is also co-founder and partner of Executive Board Exchange (EBX), the premier community for corporate director and board engagement and Co-Chair of the Global Advisory Board of Belaunch 2013, Korea's biggest startup and technology conference. She also consults as a trusted advisor and coach for top-level executives. Before starting Talent Age Associates, Kyung spent 14 years with the global executive search firm Heidrich & Struggles. Rising to become vice chairman, she led Heidrick & Struggles' expansion in Asia, and managed the Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, and Seoul offices. She earned a B.A. in economics and French from Goucher College in Balitmore, and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago.
Peter Kim
Peter Kim is a partner in The Bridgespan Group’s San Francisco office and chief learning and innovation officer. In this role, he leads Bridgespan’s efforts to learn from insights emerging from strategy consulting engagements and invest in internal capabilities to strengthen Bridgespan’s ability to meet the needs of social sector leaders. Peter also co-leads Bridgespan’s racial equity strategy, with a focus on integrating racial equity more fully into our approach to serving clients.
Prior to this role, Peter advised leading nonprofit organizations and philanthropic funders on a wide range of issues including growth planning, funding strategies, organizational effectiveness, and program alignment. Peter’s clients include Harlem Children’s Zone, Echoing Green, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Rockefeller Foundation.
Peter also guides much of the firm's research on issues related to racial equity and nonprofit funding, writing and speaking nationally. He is the co-author of “Ten Nonprofit Funding Models,” which was recognized as the Stanford Social Innovation Review's most widely read article of 2009. He is also the author of “Finding Your Funding Model” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2011), “Why More Nonprofits Are Getting Bigger” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2012) and “From Small to Scale” (Nonprofit Quarterly, 2012). Most recently, he co-authored “Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding” Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020) and “Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table” (Bridgespan, 2020).
Prior to joining Bridgespan, Peter worked at Goldman Sachs. He earned his undergraduate degree at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a master in public policy at Harvard University.
Amy Y Shin
Amy Shin is a healthcare executive with innovation, value, access, and efficiency as core business principles to ensure highest quality of care to all. She is dedicated to aligning disparate parts of delivery system and
leveraging innovation with health care policies to form business strategies that improve access, quality, outcomes, and most of all, consumer engagement. She has in-depth knowledge of healthcare financing, regulatory and statutory compliance, operational efficiencies, marketing strategies, transforming data to
usable information, and P&L management. Her knowledge extends to all payor sectors - Managed Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Dual-Eligibles, and Long Term Care.
Ms. Shin was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Health Plan of San Joaquin (HPSJ), where she
oversaw health care delivery for underserved areas of California, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties,
providing full health insurance for 350,000 residents.
Ms. Shin has extensive history of serving on boards of organizations with missions to serve underserved
populations and support meaningful projects. Her passions include inclusion, equity, education,
women’s rights, and healthcare access to all.
Ms. Shin holds a BA in Microbiology & Immunology from the University of California, Berkeley and a
PharmD from University of Southern California. She enjoys college football, hiking, reading, and the wine
country nearby.
James Kim
James joined Qatalyst in December 2008, and is co-head of its Consumer Technology Group. James previously worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse focusing on strategic advisory assignments in the Technology sector. Prior to Credit Suisse, James worked at Morgan Stanley and at Advanced Technology Ventures, a bi-coastal venture capital firm, focusing on early-stage IT investments.
James has 18 years of experience in investment banking advisory work. His clients have included Kiva, PillPack, Twitch and Zoox on their acquisitions by Amazon, Motorola Mobility, Fitbit and Dropcam on their acquisitions by Google, Pixar on its acquisition by Disney, Google on its acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick, Priceline on its acquisition of Bookings, HomeAway on its acquisition by Expedia, OpenTable on its acquisition by Priceline, HotelTonight on its acquisition by AirBnb, eBay on its acquisition of Braintree/Venmo, Xoom on its acquisition by PayPal, Verifone on its acquisition by Francisco Partners, Intuit on its acquisition of Credit Karma and the divestiture of its Financial Services Division to Thoma Bravo, Galileo Financial Technologies on its sale to SoFi, Weebly on its acquisition by Square, Shopping.com and Zong on their acquisitions by eBay, Palm on its acquisition by HP, Sony on the divestiture of its Gracenote division to Tribune, Sony on its acquisition of Insomniac Games, Gaikai on its acquisition by Sony, Riot Games on its acquisition by Tencent, Bungie on the sale of a strategic stake to NetEase, PopCap on its acquisition by Electronic Arts, Big Fish Games on its acquisition by Churchill Downs, AppLovin on its acquisition by Orient Hontai Capital, MoPub on its acquisition by Twitter, Flurry on its acquisition by Yahoo!, MyFitnessPal on its acquisition by UnderArmour, Overdrive on its acquisition by Rakuten, Spredfast on its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, Atheros on its acquisition by Qualcomm, Conexant on its acquisition by Golden Gate Capital, Universal Computer Systems on its merger with Reynolds & Reynolds, Elance on its merger with oDesk, Micromuse and Softek on their acquisitions by IBM, Komag on its acquisition by Western Digital and Pliant on its acquisition by SanDisk, among others.
James is originally from San Francisco and received a degree in Economics from Stanford University.
Yul Kwon
Yul’s career spans technology, law and public policy, small business, and media. In the private sector, Yul has held positions at Facebook (where he is Director of Product Management and former Deputy Chief Privacy Officer), Google, McKinsey, Venture Law Group, and Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis. He also owned and operated a series of retail stores as the Northern California developer for Red Mango frozen yogurt. In the public sector, Yul's government experiences include serving as Deputy Chief of the FCC's Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, an adjunct instructor at the FBI Academy, a legislative counsel in the U.S Senate, and a judicial clerk in the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
On television, Yul hosted the PBS series, America Revealed, and anchored KCETLink’s weekly news program, LinkAsia, from 2011-2013. He’s also hosted documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the Smithsonian Channel, worked as a special correspondent on CNN, and competed on the CBS reality show, Survivor, where he became the series’ first Asian American winner in 2006.
Yul is active in a wide range of charities, particularly those seeking to increase the number of Asian American bone marrow donors. He co-founded the Council of Korean Americans and sits on the advisory board of Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC and LA).
Yul has been profiled in VIBE Magazine's annual Juice issue of people with power, People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue, and Entrepreneur Magazine. He received his B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal.
Grace Yoo
Grace is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her B.A. in Social Sciences from University of California at Irvine, Masters in Public Health from Loma Linda University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Grace is trained in medical sociology and public health, and her record of accomplishment spans two decades. Using mixed methodologies and community-based participatory research (CBPR), she is has been involved in leading a myriad of research and evaluation projects and programs focused on health disparities in Asian Americans, women of color and breast cancer; and aging, social support and Korean American families. Grace has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and co-authored/co-edited four books including Caring Across Generations: The Linked Lives of Korean American Families (NYU Press); Handbook of Asian American Health (Springer Publishing); Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today (ABC-Clio) and Koreans in America: History, Identity and Community (Cognella). Reviews of her work discuss how her research brings voice to an experience unheard and brings attention to a particular health concern. Her book, Caring Across Generations recently received the American Sociological Association Asian/Asian American section Best Book Award. Based on interviews with 138 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean Americans throughout California, the book focused on how adult children of Korean immigrants care for their immigrant parents throughout the life course.
Associate Board
Community-minded professionals who share a deep passion for the community and serve as ambassadors for KACF-SF.
Grace Kim
Grace has been with Google for 8 years, currently leading a Product Operations team, following stints on the Product Marketing and Sales teams. Prior to that, she worked in digital marketing and non-profit fundraising. She is passionate about career coaching and development, and spent a term as co-chair of a Diversity & Inclusion council at Google.She is a LA native, spent 4 years on the East Coast while studying at Yale, but is now happily settled back in the California Bay Area with her husband and two children.
Clara Park
Clara Park is the Director of Strategy of Dementia Care Aware, a California state-wide program housed at UCSF's Division of Geriatrics. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from NYU in health policy and management, and has been working in the healthcare space for over 10 years. She was born in Lawrence, Kansas and grew up moving between Kansas and Seoul, Korea. She spent the majority of her adult life in New York City and recently moved to the Bay Area (by way of Durham, NC). She enjoys exploring new neighborhoods and cities, baking all sorts of desserts, and going on hikes with her husband and dog.
Elise Lee
Elise is a second-generation Korean American who grew up in Beverly Hills, and started her career in the Bay Area after having graduated from UCLA. She currently works as a financial adviser with Fraser Financial Group and feels rewarded from serving as a resource to her clients. During her spare time, Elise loves to visit museums, watch documentaries, play golf, and practice Tae Kwon Do.
Philanthropy and giving back to her community was something that Elise has always wanted to participate in, and is delighted to have had the opportunity to do that through KACF-SF as a member of KACF-SF's Community Grants Committee and Associate Board.
“I am inspired by the vision of KACF-SF to strengthen and empower those who are most vulnerable in our Korean American community, and am happy to see how the organization is uniting Korean Americans of all generations together in a communal effort as we strive towards fulfilling that vision. I am excited for the impacts that KACF-SF will make as the organization garners more momentum."
Hyun Joo Park
Hyun Joo Park is a Vice President at MassMutual Northern CA. She has been working in financial services since 2005. Prior to the financial services industry, she worked in the continuing education space with UC Berkeley Extension and ventured into the tech industry working in Human Resources and Accounting. Hyun Joo earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UC Berkeley. She loves volunteering her time to non-profit organizations that help empower their local community. She resides in Oakland and is an avid Bay Area sports fan. She is currently training to become an IRONMAN.
Youngwon Lee
Youngwon Lee founded Dokkaebier to add some spice to the local brewery culture. He's building a fun, Asian-influenced craft beer brand using ingredients and flavors, like bamboo leaves, chili powders, and Korean berries. Prior to this, Youngwon had more than a decade of operations, finance, sales, and brand management experience in the food & beverage industry in both Korea and US. He is a native to Korea but has lived in various places from Seoul, Guam, New Jersey, LA, to Eureka. Youngwon is passionate about making people happy through food and beverages.
Sara Lee
Sara Lee is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at VSCO, a creator-first platform with professional grade presets, quality photo and video editing tools, and a world-class creative community. At VSCO, she leads the Legal and Trust & Safety teams and also co-founded VSCO’s AAPI ERG. Prior to VSCO, Sara was the General Counsel at Stella & Dot, a Sequoia Capital funded social selling and e-commerce company, and a Corporate and Securities Associate at both Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Reed Smith where she represented technology start-ups, emerging growth companies, and public companies throughout their lifecycle from formation to exit.
Sara is a San Francisco native and an avid Niners fan. She earned her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and her law degree from U.C. Davis. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, Kpop, taking dance classes, and spending time with her family, including her parents, husband, two children, and her Yorkie.
Jen Lee Moskowitz
Jen Lee Moskowitz is a Vice President at Fremont Group, family office based in San Francisco. Prior to Fremont, she was Head of Finance and Investor Relations at various venture backed and publicly traded technology companies. Jen was born in Seoul and raised in Canada, and she now considers the Bay Area her home. She earned her BA in Economics from Columbia University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. In her free time, Jen likes to watch old movies, practice hot yoga & pilates, read inside cozy cafes, and take day trips around the Bay Area.
Chris Mironov
Chris Kang Mironov is originally a Midwest girl from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She currently lives in Menlo Park with her elementary-aged daughter and son, her husband, and their miniature goldendoodle. Chris graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in psychology, and University of Chicago Booth with a MBA. Before retiring from the corporate world and creating her own fine jewelry company, Chris was an HR exec at LinkedIn and ServiceNow. In addition to working on strategic initiatives and being a thought partner to the Human Resources and Talent Acquisition leadership team, her passion was around diversity, inclusion, and belonging programs. Chris enjoys cooking, being a hostess, being active in her children’s school and several philanthropies, sparkly things, and traveling.
Jane Jung
Jane was born to immigrant parents in Calgary, Alberta Canada. She attended the University of Calgary for her Bachelors in Arts and Education. After earning her degrees, she was invited to teach in Harbin, China. From China, she found herself in Seoul, Korea as a Corporate Trainer with Samsung. She then pursued her Masters of Education with the University of Calgary. Upon completion, she was recruited as an International Teacher for the New York City Department of Education where she began her classroom teaching in the Bronx. She has been a teacher for 15 years. She currently serves as a Middle School Assistant Principal.
Eula Lee
Eula currently serves as Director, Partnerships at the Asian Art Museum. She has over 16 years of experience as a professional fundraiser. Raised in Southern California, she moved to the Bay Area after spending time on the East Coast. With family ties to South Korea, she is passionate about preserving and promoting Korean culture.
Jennifer Kim
Jennifer is the proud daughter of immigrant parents and grew up in Southern California helping out in their mom-and-pop restaurant. She attended Harvard, then moved to NYC to teach elementary school in East Harlem through Teach for America. After five years of teaching, Jennifer attended Harvard Law School, where she served as Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and was elected a Class Marshal. She is currently a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell practicing litigation. Pro bono work is a large part of Jennifer's practice, including a long-standing partnership with Stop AAPI Hate.
Janet Lee
Janet Lee is a Partnerships Director at Salesforce based in San Francisco. Prior to Salesforce, she spent 9 years in various accounting & sales strategy roles at PwC in both the Chicago and San Francisco offices. Janet is originally from Chicago and earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Though Chicago-style hotdogs and deep dish pizza will always have her heart, the Bay Area is now her home with her husband and dog. She’s passionate about connecting the tech industry’s time & talents with community organizations and looking forward to supporting the depth of Korean American non-profits in the Bay Area.
