Dr Soong Moon Kang

Lecturer Telephone:   020 7679 7842 Email:   smkang@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

Soong Moon Kang is University Lecturer in Enterprise and the Management of Innovation at CEMI. He specialises in management of technology and innovation, business strategy, entrepreneurship and social network analysis. His current research focuses on the relationship between the performance of venture capitalists and their position in co-investment networks, the emergence of organisational reputations within business communities, and the institutional mechanisms of innovation and firm creation in high technology industries.

He has an extensive industry experience in Europe, Asia and the U.S.A. He worked as a manager for market analysis and business strategy for a major aerospace company in Paris, and as a consultant in corporate strategy for a major business conglomerate in Seoul. In Silicon Valley, he co-founded an Internet company, and he was a consultant and advisor to start-up companies on funding, operations and business development, to venture capitalists on deal flow, syndication and due diligence, and to large corporations on corporate venturing.

At Stanford University, he co-organised the Global Entrepreneurs Challenge 2000, the first international business plan competition.

He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering, a M.A. in Sociology and a M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University, and a degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität Berlin.

He is a native of Korea, a citizen of Brazil and the U.S.A., and speaks English, French, German, Korean and Portuguese fluently.