Young-Joon (YJ) Kim, Chief Executive Officer and Director. Mr. YJ Kim became our
Chief Executive Officer and director in May 2015. Mr. Kim joined MagnaChip in
May 2013 and served as our Executive Vice President and General Manager, Display
Solutions Division. He was promoted to Interim Chief Executive Officer in May
2014. He also served as the acting General Manager of our Foundry Services Group
from May to November 2015. Prior to joining MagnaChip, Mr. Kim held a variety
of senior management roles at several global semiconductor firms in a career spanning
nearly 30 years. His past roles include marketing, engineering, product development
and strategic planning, and his product expertise includes microprocessors, network
processors, FLASH, EPROM, analog, mixed-signal, sensors, workstations and servers.
Immediately before joining MagnaChip, Mr. Kim served as Vice President, Infrastructure
Processor Division, and General Manager of the Multi-Core Processor Group of Cavium,
Inc., where he worked from 2006 to 2013. Prior to Cavium, Mr. Kim served as Core
Team Lead and General Manager of the Tolapai Program at Intel Corporation from
2004 to 2006. In 1998, Mr. Kim co-founded API Networks, a joint venture between
Samsung and Compaq, where he served as the head of product management, worldwide
sales and business development for Alpha processors. Prior to API Networks, Mr.
Kim served as Director of Marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. from 1996 to
1998. Mr. Kim began his career as a product engineer at Intel Corporation. Mr.
Kim holds B.S. and M.Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Jonathan Kim (J. Kim), Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and
Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Jonathan Kim was appointed Chief Financial Officer
and Executive Vice President in May 2015, after serving as our Interim Chief
Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President since
March 2014. Prior to joining MagnaChip, Mr. Kim served since July 2010 as the
Chief Financial Officer of StartForce, Inc., a VC backed desktop virtualization
company, which was acquired in February 2011 by ZeroDesktop, Inc., a leading
developer of next-generation desktop virtualization and cloud computing solutions.
Mr. Kim continued to serve as the Chief Financial Officer at ZeroDesktop through
March 2014. Mr. Kim also served as a principal at a Silicon Valley based investment
and advisory firm where he led investments in startup companies in the U.S.
and Korea. Mr. Kim began his career in public accounting and held various positions
with Deloitte for nearly 10 years, serving Global Fortune 500 and U.S. multinational
publicly traded clients in the Technology, Media & Telecommunication sectors.
Mr. Kim holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration from the Foster School
of Business at the University of Washington and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Theodore Kim (T. Kim), Chief Compliance Officer, Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary. Mr. T. Kim became our Chief Compliance Officer
and Executive Vice President in May 2015, and became our General Counsel and
Secretary in November 2013. Mr. T. Kim previously served as our Senior Vice
President from November 2013 to May 2015. Prior to joining MagnaChip, Mr. T.
Kim served as Head Lawyer, Global Business Development at Samsung Fire &
Marine Insurance from October 2012 to October 2013. Mr. T. Kim was employed
by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a law firm, from October 2005 to July 2012,
serving most recently as Of Counsel. Prior to that, he served as Foreign Legal
Consultant at Kim & Chang, a law firm in Korea, from 2001 to 2005, and prior
to that, he worked as an associate attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP,
a law firm, from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Kim holds a B.A. degree in Economics and
a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine,
and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of
Law.
Tae Jong Lee, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Foundry Services
Group. Mr. Lee became our General Manager, Foundry Services Group, in November
2015 and became our Executive Vice President in December 2011, after serving
successively as Senior Vice President and Vice President and General Manager,
Corporate Engineering, since September 2007. Prior to joining MagnaChip, Mr.
Lee served as Director of the Technology Development Division, Chartered Semiconductor
Manufacturing, in Singapore from 1999 to August 2007. Mr. Lee holds B.S. and
M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D in Physics from the
University of Texas at Dallas.
Woung Moo Lee, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Standard Products
Group. Mr. Woung Moo Lee became our Executive Vice President and General Manager,
Standard Products Group in November 2015. He previously served as our Senior
Vice President, Korea Sales from 2013. Prior to joining MagnaChip, he was one
of the founding executives and served as Vice President, Global Strategy and
Marketing, Samsung LED Co., Ltd. from 2009 to 2011. In 1984, Mr. Lee began his
career as a memory semiconductor design engineer and served as Vice President
of Memory Strategy & Marketing Team at Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. until
2009. Mr. Lee received the “Proud Samsung Employee Award” in 2005
and holds a B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Inha University.
Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation currently has 711 employees.
