Il-Hwan is a director at Qualcomm Ventures and oversees Qualcomm’s venture investments in Korea. He currently manages 10 investments and is involved in portfolio companies in either as a director or observer capacity in BoD. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures he worked at McKinsey & Company’s Seoul office as a consultant especially in M&A, new business development, and government. He is also an entrepreneur himself – Il-Hwan co-founded a company called Rich Media Interactive in 2000, which offered virtual adverting solutions.
Il-Hwan has B.S. in both CS(computer science) and ECE(electrical and computer engineering) from Carnegie Mellon University, M.S.C. in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, and MBA from INSEAD.