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Ji Hoon runs strategic investments at Samsung Ventures America, working with AI companies in data centers, energy, industrial automation, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS. He has spent several years building expertise in technical evaluation and creating frameworks to assess AI algorithms and their practical applications. His investment approach focuses on finding technologies that address real business problems, especially those with clear paths to adoption in large organizations. He combines his financial market background with technical assessment capabilities, bridging the gap between innovative startups and enterprise customers who can benefit from their solutions. Before entering venture capital, he managed public equities in TMT sectors in one of the hedge funds in New York, and ran technology portfolios at Credit Suisse and Industrial Bank of Korea, where he developed his analytical approach to investments. He earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.