Young Sohn

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Mr. Young Sohn is a Co-Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst Ventures. He is the Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member and Member of the 2023 Evaluation Committee at Extreme Tech Challenge. He serves as a Board Member at Cadence Design Systems. He serves as an Advisor at Spiden. He serves as a Board Member at ANYbiotics. He serves as a Board Member at Ada Health. He serves as Chairman at Harman International Industries. He served as a Board Member at Ingonyama. He served as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer at Samsung Electronics. He serves as a Board Member at Opaque Systems. He serves as a Director at Sebring Systems. He also served as an Executive at Samsung Catalyst. He also serves as a Board Member at Agilius. He also served as a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Management. He also serves as an Advisor at Big Basin Capital and Lakestar. He served as an Advisor at Comprendi. Previously, he served as a Chairman at W3i. He also serves as a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners. He leads the development and strategy for global innovation, investment, and new business creation. He led the $8 billion acquisition of Harman International Industries. Before joining Samsung Electronics, he served as a Chief Executive Officer and President at Oak Technologies. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He also has served on the Boards of ARM, Synnex Corporation, and Cymer, Inc. He serves on the MIT Sloan School North America Board, is a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, is a member of the board of directors at Cadence, is a board member of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and is an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. He also was a senior advisor for the MIT Media Lab's One Laptop per Child. He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Founding Managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. He serves as Chairman of the Board of HARMAN and Senior Advisor to Samsung Electronics.