Eric B. Kim
| Eric B. Kim | |
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| Hangul | 김병국 |
| Hanja | 金炳國[1] |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Byeongguk |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Pyǒngguk |
Eric B. Kim (born 1954) is a Korean American businessman in the technology field.
Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1954. At the age of 11, his family moved to Los Angeles, in the United States. He majored in physics at Harvey Mudd College, and went on to earn a master's in engineering at UCLA and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Kim worked for a number of companies in his early career. He was general manager of database products at software firm Lotus Development, President and CEO of Pilot Software, a part of business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, and a member of venture-capitalist firm Spencer Trask Software Group.
Kim moved back to South Korea to join Samsung Electronics in 1999, where during a tenure of five years he rose to become leader of their global marketing initiatives. Kim was instrumental in generating brand visibility worldwide for Samsung with its "DigitAll-Everyone's Invited" campaign.[2]
He moved back to the United States in 2004, when Intel hired him as their chief marketing officer. He later moved to heading their digital home initiative, as a senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Home Group.
On the 9th June 2010 it was announced[3] that Eric Kim would become President and Chief Executive Officer of Soraa Inc., a clean-tech semiconductor company.
[edit] References
- ^ "英特尔数字家庭集团高级副总裁金炳国离职", TechWeb, 2010-06-10, http://www.techweb.com.cn/news/2010-06-10/620493.shtml, retrieved 2011-09-29
- ^ "Samsung Electronics Company: Global Marketing Operations" Harvard Business Review, Feb 2005.
- ^ "Soraa Hires Eric Kim as New President, CEO" BusinessWire, 09-Jun-2010
- "Intel Executive Biography: Eric B. Kim". Intel Corporation. Archived from the original on 2006-12-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20061202050519/http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/kim.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
- Tang, George (2005). "Eric B. Kim: Marketing's Miracle Man". Goldsea Asian American Business. http://business.goldsea.com/Kime/kime.html. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
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$103.4 billion 
- Companies listed on the Korea Stock Exchange
- 1954 births
- Living people
- American people of Korean descent
- American computer businesspeople
- Harvey Mudd College alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Harvard Business School alumni
- People from Seoul
- South Korean businesspeople
- South Korean emigrants to the United States
- Samsung Electronics
