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Tae-Jin (TJ) Kang
Senior Vice President, Samsung Electronics(2010)
Since developing Hangul Processor 3, considered to be the first Korean word processing software in 1983, TJ Kang has worked for many software companies, most of them his own creation. In 1999, he moved to Silicon Valley and founded ThinkFree with the mission of delivering desktop software as a free Internet service. In a 2001 magazine interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned ThinkFree as a potential threat to his company second only to Linux. In 2006, PC World awarded ThinkFree the World Class award. The following year, ComputerWorld selected ThinkFree as the best online office over Google Docs and Time magazine named it one of the 50 best websites of the year.
Mr. Kang has been profiled in Fortune magazine, appeared on ABC News Ahead of the Curve, presented at conferences such as ETech, The New New Internet, Office 2.0, Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0, Red Herring, and Broadband World Forum. He was one of twenty “Web 2.0 Heroes” Bradley Jones interviewed for the 2008 book by the same title.
Leaving behind twenty five years of life in start-ups, Mr. Kang went on to serve as the head of the Service Incubation Office at Korea Telecom before joining Samsung last March.
Mr. Kang has been profiled in Fortune magazine, appeared on ABC News Ahead of the Curve, presented at conferences such as ETech, The New New Internet, Office 2.0, Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0, Red Herring, and Broadband World Forum. He was one of twenty “Web 2.0 Heroes” Bradley Jones interviewed for the 2008 book by the same title.
Leaving behind twenty five years of life in start-ups, Mr. Kang went on to serve as the head of the Service Incubation Office at Korea Telecom before joining Samsung last March.
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