Paul Kang
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Paul Kang is from San Francisco, California, United States. Paul is currently Board & Chief Innovation Officer at Intercellular, located in San Francisco Bay Area. Paul also works as President at ALTA HOLDINGS, a job Paul has held since Jan 2020. In Paul's previous role as a Senior Advisor, Board, CEO (Nasdaq: XCUR) at Exicure, Paul worked in Chicago, Seoul, San Francisco until Feb 2026. Prior to joining Exicure, Paul was a Chair at RareBridge and held the position of Chair at London, New York. Prior to that, Paul was a Chair, President, CEO at ALTA HOLDINGS, based in New York, Seoul, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Singapore, London from Jan 1997 to Jan 2020. Paul started working as SVP Brooks Houghton at Goldman Sachs in New York and Denver in Jun 1988. From Sep 1984 to Jun 1987, Paul was Brand Management at Procter & Gamble, based in Cincinnati.
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Established merchant bank - originally "Convergence Capital" as early proponent of digital convergence. Broadened to non-technology efforts. Collaborated with iRG to establish offices in NY, Seoul, HK, Tokyo, Singapore, SF and London. - Became a leader in cross-border transactions between Asia and the U.S. and Europe. - Adviser to leading groups (Daewoo, LG, Samsung), SMEs such as Pulmuone and NHN, and international companies such as ICAP and EDS. - Played significant role in attracting $billions in direct capital to Korea/Asia during Asia Financial Crisis. - Innovative Korean transactions include first sale of a publicly-traded company (Chunjin) to a foreigner, largest media transaction (Pusan Broadcasting), leading Internet transaction (Nowcom), most successful Korean buyout in U.S. (American Tape), and establishment of first interdealer broker with global participation. - Led AltaCap.com, a leading Internet incubator and Teletech investor in U.S./Asia with revenues of $25m and 150+ people. Investor returns approached 1000% until "Internet Crash." - CIO for leading restructuring fund collaboration with Julius Capital and Merrill Lynch. - Adviser to Korean government on long-term vision and financial industry structure, including input into bank privatizations and investment in Lehman. - Selected by Korean Ministry of Commerce to promote foreign direct investment (alongside KPMG, Nomura, Arthur Andersen). - Advised WP Carey in initial Asia introduction to sale-leaseback transactions. - Early adviser to KAMCO in management of troubled assets.
- Established Pitney Bowes reinsurance using innovative structure including unpaid preferred. - Led acquisition for KBL Healthcare Acquisition Corp. yielding 100% returns, an early success for SPAC industry. - Lieutenant to Jeff Dulude in building technology innovators, including T1 Systems (a leader in large scale IVR systems) with innovative flow-control CASE platform. Developed pioneering architecture and solutions for distributed big data systems. - Senior working level for GS acquisition of savings banks to circumvent Glass-Steagall. - Senior working level for leading clients including FNMA, CrossLand Savings, BNE. - Brought use of infinite loops in spreadsheets to pro forma modeling
- Brands included Safeguard soap and Biz bleach. - Led Division New Product effort for laundry cleaning products. - Led collaboration with Hill & Knowlton and Burson & Marsteller to calculate "advertising value" of public relations (leading to increased PR expenditures, calculations widely adopted by industry). - Developed concept of combining trial with stocking strategy to retain customers by reducing switching. - Initiated marketing use of statistical analysis to evaluate promotion effectiveness -- leading to increased focus on display, reduced TPR, and testing of everyday low pricing strategy. - Led development of displayable shipping containers.