Our People
The people behind the work.
Each engagement brings together relevant specialists under a clearly identified lead. Explore our people's areas of focus and experience.
Minjung Kim
Founder & CEO
Korea Market Entry · Government & Institutional Relations · Cross-Border Business Building
Twenty years of building businesses and investing across borders, applied to the Korean market: its regulation, its business culture and the way companies and institutions decide. She shapes the entry strategy with you and carries it into execution, including government and institutional engagement and the search for partners you can rely on.
Capital & Investment
Institutional finance in Korea and global markets, wealth management, M&A and mezzanine finance.
Chunsuk Park
Institutional Finance
- Role
- Lead Partner
- Focus
- Leads Prospera’s institutional finance work in Korea, drawing on experience at Korean insurers, pension funds and asset managers to review capital strategy, investor fit and institutional engagement.
- Experience before Prospera
- CIO, MG Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC), 2020–2023
- Deputy CIO, Heungkuk Life, 2017–2019
- Head of investment strategy, Government Employees Pension Service, 2013–2016
- CIO, fixed income, ING Investment Management Korea, 2006–2012
- Senior fixed-income manager, Samsung Asset-Management Co. (LDI), 2004–2006
- Fixed-income manager, Samsung Life, 1995–2004
- Research, Federation of Korean Industries, 1990–1993
- Outside director, Woori Private Equity, 2023– · Outside director, Cape Co., 2024–
- Sogang University (BBA, 1990) · University of Wisconsin (MS Finance, 1995) · Chung-Ang University (PhD Finance, 2022) · CFA
- Regions
- Korea
- Related services
- M&A & Strategic Transactions · Capital Strategy
Philip Chow
Institutional Finance & Wealth Management
- Role
- Partner
- Focus
- Leads Prospera’s global institutional finance and wealth management work. He brings experience in global fixed income, currencies and multi-asset portfolios to capital strategy, portfolio construction, manager selection and investment assessment for institutions and wealth clients.
- Experience before Prospera
- GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund manager — Managing Director, Deputy Head of Portfolio Solutions & Risk, and lead portfolio manager for multi-asset strategy (2024–2025, Singapore)
- Managing Director, Head of Global Fixed Income, Macro, Fullerton Fund Management (2022–2024, Singapore)
- Chief Executive Officer, H2O AM Asia (2018–2022, Singapore) — set up the firm's first Asian office and launched its Asian macro strategy fund
- Chief Investment Officer, Global Fixed Income & FX, Asia, Amundi (2012–2018, Singapore) — member of the global fixed income executive committee
- Head of Fixed Income Asia, AXA Investment Managers (2007–2012, Singapore); previously global, European and sterling sovereign and aggregate bond funds in London
- Director of Fixed Income, F&C Asset Management (2005–2007, London)
- Head of UK and Global Spread Product, WestLB Mellon Asset Management (2002–2003, London)
- Fund Manager, Threadneedle Asset Management (1996–2002, London) — UK, global and Asian rates and credit
- Bond analyst roles in London (1992–1996)
- Regions
- Asia · Europe (Singapore, London)
- Related services
- M&A & Strategic Transactions · Capital Strategy
Hajun Lee
M&A & Mezzanine Finance
- Role
- Lead Partner
- Focus
- Leads transaction assessment, capital structuring and execution, drawing on direct experience in Korean listed-company M&A and mezzanine investment.
- Experience before Prospera
- Mezzanine investment execution and fund management — thirty years in Korea’s capital markets
- Former head of SR I&D
- Director experience at an investment advisory firm
- Hands-on participation in Korean listed-company M&A as both a financial and strategic investor
- Regions
- Korea
- Related services
- M&A & Strategic Transactions · Capital Strategy
Supply Chain & Industrial Sourcing
Manufacturers, procurement, industrial partners and supply terms.
Business Development & PartnershipsSupply Chain & Industrial Sourcing
Chisung Eom
Supply Chain & Industrial Sourcing
- Role
- Partner
- Focus
- Manufacturers, industrial partners and supply terms; cooperation between Korean industry and overseas counterparts.
- Experience before Prospera
- President, Global Division, Yozma Group Korea, 2023–
- Executive vice president, Korea Business Finance, 2020–2023
- Managing director, International Affairs Bureau, FKI · Secretary-general, ABAC and BIAC Korea committees · B20 sherpa, 2012–2020
- Managing director, Social Affairs Bureau, FKI, 2009–2012
- Federation of Korean Industries, 1990–2020
- KAIST Graduate School of Management (Techno-MBA, 2003) · Sogang University (BBA, 1990)
- Regions
- Korea · Asia (APEC economies · Israel)
- Related services
- Business Development & Partnerships · Supply Chain & Industrial Sourcing
Younghun Lee
Industrial & Maritime
- Role
- Specialist
- Focus
- Overseas supply chains in the shipbuilding and offshore industry: finding buyers and local supply partners, and settling the terms. Overseas trade in shipbuilding and shipping: working terms with local partners in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Russia, and government and public-sector opportunities in Indonesia.
- Experience before Prospera
- Chief Executive Officer, Kwangwoon, 2005–
- Process team, Plant Division, LG E&C (now GS E&C), 2003–2004
- Ocean Academy, Korea Maritime & Ocean University (2014) · MBA, Pusan National University (2011) · BS in Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University (2003)
- Regions
- Korea · Asia · Middle East · Europe (Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, India · UAE · St Petersburg, Russia)
- Related services
- Business Development & Partnerships · Supply Chain & Industrial Sourcing
Cross-Border Tax & Trade
Tax questions in cross-border transactions and trade, and coordination of the specialist response.
Haein Jung
Cross-Border Tax & Trade
- Role
- Partner
- Focus
- Tax questions in cross-border transactions and trade — offshore structures, international transactions, payment flows and documentation — and what an examiner looks at.
- Experience before Prospera
- Incheon Regional Tax Office, Investigation Bureau 2 (individuals and companies), 2022–2023
- Seoul Regional Tax Office, Investigation Bureau 4 (large corporations), 2021
- Posted to KOTRA Hong Kong as an NTS officer, 2017–2020
- National Tax Service, offshore intelligence (offshore tax evasion analysis), 2015–2016
- Guro Tax Office, property investigation, 2014
- Seoul Regional Tax Office, International Transactions Investigation Bureau, 2013
- Seoul Regional Tax Office, Investigation Bureau 3 (high-value inheritance and gift), 2007–2012
- Seconded to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (financial transaction tracing), 2006
- National Tax Service, twenty-three years; retired December 2023
- Author of two books on estate and gift tax planning (2015) and doing business in Hong Kong (2019)
- Regions
- Korea · Asia (Hong Kong)
- Related services
- M&A & Strategic Transactions · Cross-Border Tax & Trade
Digital Assets & Partnerships
Digital asset strategy, global partnerships, remittance and payment infrastructure business development.
Thamim Ahmed
Digital Assets & Financial Infrastructure
- Role
- Partner
- Focus
- CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenisation and financial market infrastructure: regulatory reading, design review, and institutional engagement for digital asset businesses.
- Experience before Prospera
- Senior research roles, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
- Research, London School of Economics · LSE representative on the Hedera Governing Council
- Research, IE Business School
- Research across CBDCs, DeFi, stablecoins, tokenisation and financial market infrastructure
- University College London (MSc Management) · Loughborough University (BSc Engineering Physics)
- Regions
- Europe (United Kingdom)
- Related services
- Digital Assets & Partnerships
Business Development
Market entry, customers, distribution, commercialisation and JV execution by industry.
Business Development & PartnershipsM&A & Strategic Transactions
daesung Kim
Business Development — legal questions in a transaction
- Role
- Partner
- Focus
- Sets out the legal questions that come out of a transaction or a structure, so they are settled before the deal moves. The legal work itself is carried by ClassHankyul LLC.
- Experience before Prospera
- Presiding Judge, Chuncheon, Suwon, Seoul Central and Seoul Northern District Courts
- Presiding Judge, Seongnam Branch of Suwon District Court and Seoul Western District Court
- Presided over judicial panels specialising in construction and intellectual property
- Lawyer, ClassHankyul LLC
- Regions
- Korea
- Related services
- Business Development & Partnerships · M&A & Strategic Transactions
Simon Sällström
Europe & Africa
- Role
- Regional specialist
- Focus
- Brings impact-venture experience across London and Africa to market validation, local partnerships and on-the-ground execution for companies entering Europe and Africa.
- Experience before Prospera
- Member, Youth Advisory Group, S4YE (World Bank)
- MPhil in Economics, University of Oxford — behavioural economics, economic development, labour markets
- Founder, DirectEd Development — digital skills and global employment opportunities for young people in Africa
- Founder, ETH Oxford
- Operations lead, HomeDAO
- Speaker, Inclusive Fintech Forum and Cardano Summit
- Regions
- Europe · Africa (Swedish origin · London & Africa)
- Related services
- Business Development & Partnerships · M&A & Strategic Transactions
Business Development — a team in formation
We work with professionals who have a record of market entry, customer acquisition and commercialisation in their industry. Proposals come through the Careers page, business development route.