Speakers & Guests
NetKAL regularly invites a distinguished cross-section of speakers to interact with our Fellows. Past speakers of the program include:
Business and Finance
Timothy Haahs, President & CEO, Timothy Haahs & Associates
Bill Hwang, Founder and CEO, Tiger Asia Management, L.L.C.
David Kim, CEO, Fresh Enterprises, Inc.
Steve Kim, CEO, SYK Global, Inc.
Stewart M. Kim, Managing Partner and Founder, PGP Capital Advisors, LLC.
Steven S. Koh, Chairman, Wilshire State Bank
Christopher Pak, Principal, Archeon Group
Moonsoo Pyo, Former CEO and Adviser, SK Telecom
Nita Song, President and COO, IW Group, Inc.
David Eun, Former President, AOL Media and Studios
Young Woo, Founder and Principal Partner, Youngwoo & Associates, LLC
Daniel Yun, CEO, Belstar Group LLC
Greg H. Patton, Associate Professor, Clinical Center for Management Communication, USC Marshall School of Business
Government and Public Affairs
Jun H. Choi, Former Mayor, City of Edison
Shinae Chun, Former Director, Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
Dr. Balbina Hwang, Former Senior Special Advisor to Ambassador Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. State Department
Eric Garcetti, City Council President, City of Los Angeles
Sukhee Kang, City Council Member, City of Irvine
Mark Lee Keam, Delegate, Virginia’s 35th House District
David S. Kim, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation
Thomas S. Kim, Partner, Scribe Strategies & Advisors, Inc.
Jong Kul Lee, Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea
Howard Moon, Director of Global Government Affairs, Amgen, Inc.
Ronald T.Y. Moon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii
Evans Revere, Former President and CEO, The Korea Society
Tammy Chung Ryu, Judge, Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County
Tzivia Schwartz Getzug, Senior Vice President Public Affairs, The Jewish Federation
Van Tran, Assemblymember / District 68, California State Assembly
Leezie Kim, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Non-Profit Organizations and Community Leadership
Chester Chang, Donor of Major Gifts of Korean Art to U.S. Cultural Institutions
Sammy Lee, Doctor and First Asian-American Gold Medalist
Angela Oh, Attorney and Community Activist
Erin Pak, CEO/Executive Director, KHEIR Center
Johng Ho Song, Executive Director, Koreatown Youth & Community Center (KYCC)
Stephen Linton, Founder and Chairman, Eugene Bell Foundation
Culture, Entertainment & Media
Jeannie Park, Former Executive Editor, People Magazine
Ted Chung, President, C&A Marketing; Vice President of A&R, Doggy Style Records
Peter Kang, Vice President, Production, 20th Century Fox
James Y. Ryu, President & Founder, KoreAm Journal & Audrey Magazine Academia
Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
