Kwon
is the CEO and Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics. To head an electronics
consumers firm like Samsung requires a lot of skills including knowing what the
market wants. With the success Samsung has had with the Galaxy phone series you
can sure bet Kwon and his team know how to go about marketing.
Kwon also has very impressive credentials
on the technical side. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National
University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology (KAISST). If that’s not enough Kwon also has a Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
He
began his career at Samsung in 1985 at the Semiconductor Business. Kwon has
played an instrumental role in the rapid rise of Samsung Electronics in the
semiconductor industry. It was he who led the successful development of the
64Mb DRAM in 1992; this was an industry first.
Promotions
followed over the years along with growing responsibilities. Kwon became Vice
Chairman in December 2011. He was eventually promoted as CEO on June 8, 2012. Now
Samsung is building a campus at the heart of American technology - Silicon
Valley. He’s on familiar grounds being a Stanford
graduate but this time he comes as head of an electronics giant. 