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Paul KIM - President and CEOPaul Kim is a passionate entrepreneur and founding CEO of Danal, Inc. who orchestrated the company's $9.5 million Series-A fundraising in May 2007 in a rare transaction that married top-tier U.S. venture capital with a public, Asian company that pioneered the business of charging online transactions to the mobile phone bill.As chief executive, Paul strives to instill the company with his passion for success and vision for innovating the payment industry.
Prior to founding Danal in the U.S., Paul worked at Samsung's
corporate venture capital group where he performed technology business development and investments on behalf of Samsung in the digital media, telecom, semiconductor, and internet sectors.Before Samsung, Paul worked in various capacities as a management consultant, consulting to both Fortune 100 companies in the high-tech and energy sectors, as well as for technology startups in the U.S. and Asia focusing on online gaming, eCommerce, and the internet.He also worked directly at several U.S. technology startups in eCommerce, online payments, and VOIP.Paul received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth as an Edward Tuck Scholar.Prior to that, he earned dual B.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science with honors from the University of California at Los Angeles as an Alumni Scholar.Paul is a member of American Mensa.
Paul has a unique background: he was raised in three countries (South Korea, Philippines, and the U.S.), and his father was a prominent opposition leader who fought for South Korean democracy during the country's military rule in the 1960's.He enjoys traveling to exotic countries and experiencing different world cultures, and he is an avid sports enthusiast who has been involved with soccer & martial arts since childhood and was once runner-up in the Mr. Korea Bodybuilding Competition.Paul has deep humanitarian ambitions and has been involved with numerous volunteer activities, including spending time in schools & refugee camps in post-war Afghanistan.He lives by the motto, "I would rather live one day and change the world than 100 years anonymously."