Howard Kim is the Chairman and CEO of Jay-Young Company (JYC), a privately held diversified investment and business development company with high-level expertise to provide the necessary capabilities to guide U.S. technology companies to establish and expand their international presence in the Asia-Pacific market.

Mr. Kim has had an illustrious and prosperous career having held various key executive management positions for several high-tech corporations where he was responsible for successfully establishing and growing their presence in the Asia-Pacific market. Mr. Kim is an 20+ year veteran in the communications industry and has left an indelible mark on those companies he's aided in marketing high-tech startups to successfully penetrate into the Asia-Pacific region, which in turn, gave him the vision to apply his vast expertise with the inception of Jay-Young Company.

Before founding JYC, Mr. Kim led Sycamore Networks in developing its market presence in the Asia-Pacific region, while serving as its Managing Director of Asia-Pacific Operation. Prior to that, Mr. Kim has served as the Vice President and General Manager of Asia-Pacific Operations for Hypercom Network Systems, and as Regional Director of Sales of Asia-Pacific Operations for Cascade Communications (Lucent). He has also served in various sales, marketing and technical positions with some of the leading communications and networking companies, including, StrataCom (Cisco), Ungermann-Bass (UB Networks), Compression Labs, California Microwave, and GTE Corporation (Sprint Communications).

Mr. Kim is a Limited Partner with strategic and financial influence with Storm Ventures, Telesoft Partners and Granite Global Ventures.  Mr. Kim is also involved in Private Equity funds focusing on project financing of several leisure and entertainment projects throughout Asia Pacific Region.

Mr. Kim holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.