Wemakeprice Appoints Kim Dong-min as Chief Product Officer

Kellogg MBA - Planning Expert with Experience at Samsung, CLSA, Toss
"I Will Create a Platform That Makes Shopping Convenient"

WEMAKEPRICE Kim Dong-min CPO

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] Wemakeprice announced on the 31st that it has recruited Dongmin Kim, Chief Product Officer (CPO), who built his career as a planning expert at major domestic and international companies. This comes just over two months after Dr. Jinho Lee, formerly of Apple headquarters, joined as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in August, aiming to accelerate the strengthening of platform competitiveness by adding another key C-level executive.

CPO Kim graduated from Wellesley College in the U.S. and earned an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He worked at Samsung Electronics' Mobile Division and the foreign securities firm CLSA, and joined Toss (Viva Republica) in 2017, contributing to its rapid early growth. Notably, from 2018 until recently, he served as a founding member and board member of Toss Securities. He developed service strategies that enabled novice investors to easily enter stock investment, helping Toss Securities rapidly grow to 4 million users within six months of service launch.

Leveraging this experience and capability, CPO Kim plans to establish service strategies that differ from the existing norms of the commerce market. In particular, by combining the accumulated in-house technology-based competitiveness with planning capabilities, he will support Wemakeprice’s leap into a commerce platform that provides users with an optimal shopping environment. CPO Kim said, "I will contribute to enhancing existing services and developing new service strategies to equip Wemakeprice users with platform competitiveness they can tangibly feel."

Wemakeprice CEO Song Ha said, "With the recruitment of CPO Kim, Wemakeprice has added service strategy development capabilities to its core technological strengths, which are the platform’s inherent competitiveness. We will use these two pillars to advance as a shopping platform thoroughly competitive from the user’s perspective."

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