Ministry of Economy Officials and Google Designers... Samsung Accelerates Talent Recruitment

Samsung Electronics has recruited a former official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance and a designer of Google's autonomous vehicles.

On the 14th, Samsung Electronics announced through its quarterly report that it recently hired Lee Byung-won, a deputy director (level 3) from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, as a vice president in charge of the IR team. This is the first time in seven years since 2016 that an executive from the Ministry of Economy and Finance has moved to Samsung Electronics, following Kim Itaek, deputy director (currently vice president of Samsung Electronics' Win-Win Cooperation Center).

Vice President Lee worked in the Policy Coordination Bureau and the Economic Structural Reform Bureau of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. From 2018 to 2020, he served as an administrative officer in the Office of the Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs under the Moon Jae-in administration. After the launch of the Yoon Seok-youl administration last year, he also worked as an administrative officer in the Presidential Office.

In the second quarter, Samsung Electronics recruited Kang Yeon-ho, who previously served as the head of the Customs Service Operations Support Division and Innovation Planning and Finance Officer, as an executive in charge of the Finance team. Nam Tae-ho, a former official of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation, is serving as an executive in charge of the Management Support Office in the Device Solutions (DS) division.

Samsung Electronics Seocho Building, Seocho-gu, Seoul.
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Samsung is also recruiting talent from global companies. Recently hired Vice President Ahn Yoo-jung, in charge of the Design Management Center, designed the prototype of Google's autonomous vehicle.

Vice President Ahn designed home appliances such as TVs at LG Electronics before moving to Motorola in 2006, where she designed mobile phones. After Motorola was acquired by Google, she joined the Google team and most recently designed autonomous vehicles at Waymo, Alphabet's (Google's parent company) autonomous vehicle subsidiary.

Jonathan Lim, a former Microsoft (MS) executive, joined as an executive in charge of the B2B (business-to-business) team in the Mobile Experience (MX) division responsible for smartphones. Vice President Shin Jeong-gyu, formerly of the French environmental company Veolia, was appointed as an executive in charge of the Infrastructure Technology Center under Global Manufacturing & Infrastructure.

Lee Jung-joo, an executive in charge of the Home Appliances CX team, is a former P&G employee. Kang Tae-hyung, an executive in charge of the Video Display Consumer Marketing team, and Hyun Jae-woong, an executive in charge of the Memory Strategy Marketing Office, are former employees of the American PC manufacturer Dell and the global memory company Fusion-io, respectively.

In the first quarter, Samsung Electronics recruited Vice President Lee Young-woong, who was responsible for technology integration and robotics at General Electric (GE) and the oil company Shell. Vice President Lee is currently leading the Digital Twin Task Force (TF) operated within the Infrastructure Technology Center under Global Manufacturing & Infrastructure.

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