Upstage recruits former McKinsey employees to strengthen business capabilities
2021/04/16Upstage recruits two McKinsey graduates to strengthen business capabilities
KIM SOO-HO, FORMER PARTNER OF MCKINSEY SEOUL OFFICE, JOINED AS ADVISOR… AI ROADMAP AND BUSINESS STRATEGY ADVISOR
AS AI BUSINESS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT LEADER, KWON SOON-IL, FORMER MCKINSEY TEAM LEADER, APPOINTED ELEMENT AI NORTHEAST ASIA DIRECTOR
(Upstage = 2021/04/06 ) Upstage (CEO Kim Seong-hoon), who helps companies with AI (artificial intelligence) transformation, announced on the 6th that it had recruited people from McKinsey & Company, a world-class management consulting company.
Upstage appointed Kim Soo-ho, former partner of McKinsey & Company Seoul office, as an advisor. In addition, as the AI business strategy and development leader, Kwon Soon-il, a former team leader at McKinsey and in charge of Northeast Asian business strategy at Element AI, a Canadian AI software solution company, was recruited. Upstage, which has advanced technology by securing leading AI developers, is actively recruiting management consulting and business development experts to strengthen business capabilities.
KIM SOO-HO, WHO JOINED UPSTAGE FROM THIS MONTH, IS A MANAGEMENT CONSULTING EXPERT IN THE FINANCIAL FIELD. ADVISOR KIM HAS BEEN IN CHARGE OF ADVISING ON GROWTH STRATEGIES IN VARIOUS FIELDS SUCH AS DT (DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION), M&A (MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS), PRODUCT PORTFOLIO, AND NEW BUSINESS TO FINANCIAL COMPANIES SUCH AS BANKS, SECURITIES, AND INSURANCE COMPANIES.
After graduating from the Department of Business Administration at Seoul National University and an MBA from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the United States, Advisor Kim served as a partner in the Seoul office of McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting company, and as a financial leader in Korea, leading AA (Advanced Analytics) in the Asian insurance sector. In addition, he led the end-to-end (E2E) transformation program of a leading Asian financial group, established overseas M&A and digital strategies for domestic financial companies, and developed sales promotion programs.
KWON SOON-IL, AI BUSINESS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT LEADER WITH EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT CONSULTING AND AI TRANSFORMATION, LED THE COMPANY'S BUSINESS STRATEGY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT AS A TEAM LEADER AT MCKINSEY FROM 2016 TO LAST YEAR. AFTERWARDS, AS A DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF NORTHEAST ASIAN BUSINESS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT AT ELEMENT AI, HE PROMOTED THE AI BUSINESS OF A LARGE DOMESTIC COMPANY.
THEY PLAN TO STRENGTHEN UPSTAGE'S BUSINESS CAPABILITIES BASED ON THEIR MANY YEARS OF CORPORATE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE. ADVISOR KIM SOO-HO WILL SERVE AS AN ADVISOR ON THE AI ROADMAP AND BUSINESS STRATEGY IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR ON THE UPSTAGE. LEADER SOONIL KWON WILL LEAD UPSTAGE'S BUSINESS STRATEGY AND AI BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOR CUSTOMERS.
UPSTAGE CEO KIM SEONG-HOON SAID, “UPSTAGE CURRENTLY RECEIVES INQUIRIES FOR AI SOLUTIONS FROM MORE THAN 100 COMPANIES IN VARIOUS FIELDS SUCH AS FINANCE, EDUCATION, IT, AND MANUFACTURING. WE WILL PROVIDE AN AI SOLUTION THAT IS SUITABLE FOR EACH COMPANY BY UNDERSTANDING IT FASTER AND MORE CLEARLY.”
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Upstage | Geun-Kyo Kim PR Director | 010-8229-7240 | keunkyo@upstage.ai
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Founded in October 2020, Upstage identifies areas that can be innovated through AI technology among corporate problems and provides consulting including basic AI model and system construction required for this. In addition, by supporting the nurturing of AI talents within customer companies, it will help companies with successful AI transformation by improving their own AI competitiveness. Furthermore, the company plans to actively design AI teams by nurturing differentiated professional talents who can be immediately put into AI business through hands-on training that melts AI business experience and solid AI basic training.
CEO Seong-Hoon Kim developed Kachine, an early search engine in Korea, and co-founded Nara Vision, Inc. Since then, while serving as a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he won the ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award 4 times, the best paper award, for research on bug prediction and automatic source code generation that converges software engineering and machine learning. He is a world-class scholar in software engineering and AI, winning influential thesis awards. He is also widely known as a deep learning instructor for everyone, which has recorded more than 6 million views in total.
Upstage's co-founders include CTO Lee Hal-seok, who led Naver Visual AI / OCR and achieved global results, and CSO Park Eun-jung, who led the model team of Papago, the world's best translator.