EFL

Role: Mentor

Tracks: Deep Tech - Digital Tech - Digital Health

Hyuk-Jeen Suh

General Partner, SkyRiver Ventures

Hyuk-Jeen Suh is the General Partner of SkyRiver Ventures, a deep tech and digital health focused cross-border venture capital fund investing in frontier technologies. He brings 25 years of experience in the consumer electronics, biotech, finance and semiconductor industries. Prior to SkyRiver Ventures, Hyuk-Jeen created and was the head of Samsung Ventures America east coast office. Before joining Samsung, he worked at J.P. Morgan investment banking in the Technology, Media, and Telecom group. Prior to J.P. Morgan, he was the global senior business development and marketing manager at MEMSIC, a semiconductor startup. He led the global marketing strategy which contributed to the successful IPO of the company. Before MEMSIC, Hyuk-Jeen was a senior research engineer at Sequenom, a biotech startup, where he designed DNA biochips. He began his career at Intel Corporation as a process engineer, leading yield improvement projects and contributing to the highest yield in Intel’s history at the time for the Pentium microprocessor. Hyuk-Jeen earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his MBA from Yale School of Management. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering, BA in economics, and ME in electrical engineering, all from Cornell University.