Thank You!

Thank you to our sponsors, speakers and delegates for making the AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum \ South Korea 2009 a remarkable success.  This sixth annual event in Seoul was a distinctive gathering of the leading senior local and overseas private equity professionals, including GPs, institutional investors, corporations and professional advisers.

Mr. Scott Kalb, Chief Investment Officer of Korea Investment Corporation, provided insight on how Korean LPs view the international private equity landscape and what the opportunities in Korea are.  The Chairman of Oaktree Hong Kong, Mr. Ralph Parks, presented a statistical overview of the global private equity market under the current conditions and the attractiveness of investing in Korea.  And in his luncheon address, Mr. Tong-Soo Chung, Head of Invest Korea, KOTRA discoursed on the current status of the Korean economy and the prospects for foreign investors.

We look forward to seeing you again at next year’s event.

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Keynotes
SCOTT E. KALB
CIO
Korea Investment Corporation
RALPH PARKS
Managing Director & Chairman
Oaktree Capital (Hong Kong) Limited
TONG-SOO CHUNG
Head of Invest Korea
KOTRA

Senior industry professionals
BENJAMIN JENKINS
Sr. Managing Director & Co-Head of Asian Corporate Private Equity
The Blackstone Group
KENNETH HAO
Managing Director & Head of Asia
Silver Lake Partners
CHARLES HUH
Head of Korea & Representative Director
Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited
BEN WAY
Managing Director
Macquarie Capital Group
JOSEPH W. FERRIGNO III
Managing Partner
Asia Mezzanine Capital Group
CHUL-JOON PARK
Partner, Head of Asia Private Equity Group
Bain & Company
JUNGSOO JACK HAN
Sr. Director
Intel Capital
JUNG-JOON HWANG
Investment Director
BlueRun Ventures
THOMAS CHAN-SOO KANG
Founder & CEO
Kang & Company
HAN J. KIM
General Partner & Co-Founder
Altos Ventures
JASON J. H. KIM
President & Founder
Lindeman Asia Investment Corp.
JAY W. KIM
Managing Director, Korea
The Riverside Company
SOOMIN KIM
Partner, Head of Korea Private Equity Group
Bain & Company
YOUNG-AH KIM
Investment Associate
Squadron Capital Advisors Limited
KAZUSHIGE KOBAYASHI
President & CEO
Alternative Investment Capital Ltd
JEONG-SUK KOH
President & CEO
Ilshin Investment Co Ltd
BON-YONG KOO
Sr. Managing Director
KTB Private Equity
JAE-WOO LEE
Founding Partner
Vogo Fund
KEVIN LEE
Head of Korea
Excelsior Capital Asia
SUNG-BIN PARK
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Translink Capital
JOHN RHEE
Managing Director
Artix Investments
LUCIAN WU
Managing Director, Head of Asia
Paul Capital

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Knowledge partner

Supporting organisations

Official Korean
newspaper partner

Official newspaper

Exhibitor