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East Coast Officers

President: Gunil Chung

VP Operations: Sunny Youn
VP Finance: Isabella Chung
VP Events: Miranda Tan
VP Events: James Nam
VP Membership: David Kim
VP Social Events: Allis Ghim
VP Partnerships: Jason Kim
VP Sponsorships: SeYong Park
VP Sponsorships: Sewon Kim
Webmaster: Dwight Lee

Volunteer: Joon Baik
Volunteer: Sujin Hong
Volunteer: Sonya Joo
Volunteer: Jane Lee
Volunteer: Ed Kim
Volunteer: Phillip Kim

Gunil Chung -- Empact Solutions

Mr. Chung is the founding-CEO of Empact Solutions, a B2B ASP that provides independent 3rd-party reports against service level agreements. As founding-CEO, he was instrumental in creating the company's strategy and business plan and in taking the company to its funding in 2001. He is currently in charge of product management at Empact.Before founding Empact Solutions, Mr. Chung worked at Merrill Lynch as a consultant, designing and building the system that monitors MLDirect, Merrill's on-line trading application. Before that, he was a co-founder and VP of Consulting at Invenio, an enterprise systems management software company that was later acquired. Prior to Invenio, Mr. Chung worked as a software engineer at Open Environment Corp., a client/server middleware company that was acquired by Borland.

Mr. Chung has received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Brown University. In addition to serving as the President of KASE East Coast, Mr. Chung volunteers as a business plan advisor and mentor at NFTE.

Sunny Youn -- Morgan Stanley

Sunny has been a long-time KASE officer and supporter since the East Coast inception. For 2 years, she ran the Events Programming group, including moderating panels on wireless technology, business plan presentations, and career seminars.

Some of the speakers featured included: Joseph Park, ex-CEO of Kozmo.com, Steve Kim of Alcatel Ventures, Bob Lee of Lucent New Ventures, Kit Wong of Sycamore Ventures, and executives from AOL/Time Warner, Citicorp, AT&T, and Cendant. Through her extensive network of independent entrepreneurs, the following executives & representatives have participated in KASE East Coast events: Grant Son, School Sports; Isabella Chung, Phlair; Steve Vasquez, AudioReqeust; Syl Tang, Hipguide; Nick Krenteras, Quantum Film; Judy Kim, NYU Center for Advanced Technology; Jonathan Chua, Instant Gravity/ Duration Inc; Bong Koh, Mobilocity; Ji Young Kim, VETTRO; Byoung Jo Kim, AT&T Labs; and Owen Davis of Sonata.

Sunny has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an Economics degree (magna cum laude) from Brown University. She is currently an Investment Advisor at Morgan Stanley in New York City.

Isabella Chung -- Phlair, Inc.

Miranda Tan --

James Nam --

David Kim -- Pinnacle International, LLC

David is a Securities Analyst at Pinnacle International LLC researching company fundamentals and following the day-to-day developments of current holdings and new ideas. Before joining the firm, he had been working closely with Pinnacles Portfolio Managers as an Associate at Morgan Stanley NY in the Institutional Equities Division. David was responsible for prime brokerage coverage for global equity hedge funds totaling more than $2.8 billion in assets.

Prior to this, he worked as an Associate at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in the New York area and London as part of their Global Investment Management Services Division.

David earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, with a double major in Finance and International Business. David is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Allis Ghim -- Revlon

Allis is currently an associate brand manager at Revlon, Inc. where she oversees the strategy, new product development and day-to-day management of the Skinlights and Skincare businesses at Revlon.

Prior to joining Revlon, Allis was employed at Goldman, Sachs & Co. She spent two of those years in their Private Client Services group, where she marketed services and products to their high net worth individuals. Prior to joining the Private Client Group, she was the first 2-year analyst in their Global Operations division. She also worked as a summer intern during college in their Information Technology division where she developed and adapted their commercial paper trading systems in a Unix based environment and programmed in C and SQL.

Allis received her B.S. in Industrial Management and Economics with a minor in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently attending NYU's Stern School of Business for her MBA with a concentration in Marketing and Finance. She expects to graduate in May 2003.

Jason Kim -- Island ECN

Jason is currently the Director of Internal Operations for the Instinet Corporation, a market leading electronic exchange network for financial instruments. In the past, Jason also has experience as a Business Architect (Financial Services) at Scient Corporation, an eBusiness consulting company, and as a Team Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.Jason has provided independent consulting services to emerging businesses, helping to provide industry-specific advice for business models, plans, and operational tactics. His experience hinges on the financial services and broker-dealer industry, and has experience with knowledge management, organizational changes, business process improvement, and software development.

Jason graduated from Boston College - Carroll School of Management with degrees in Finance and Management Information Systems, and a minor in Black Studies. He is also currently pursuing his MBA from Fordham University.

SeYong Park --

Sewon Kim -- Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

Ms. Kim is an Associate at Bear Stearns Public Finance Department where she provides investment banking services to State and local government entities including general obligation, lease revenue and revenue bonds, certificates of participation, and project financings. Since joining Bear Stearns, Ms. Kim has provided analytical support for number of issuers including District of Columbia, City of Phoenix, Arizona Department of Transportation, Regional Transportation District (Denver) and Lower Colorado River Authority.

Prior to joining Bear Stearns, she worked as a Senior Analyst in the Economics Consulting Group at Deloitte & Touche, LLP where she provided comparative financial analyses for multi-national corporations.

Ms. Kim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Japanese.

Dwight Lee --

Joon Baik --

Sujin Hong --

Sonya Joo --

Jane Lee --

Ed Kim --

Eddie has a background in corporate financial planning and analysis, banking, and investment management. As the finance director of Simon & Schuster, he oversaw daily finance operations and the planning process, while providing advisory services to senior management and engaging in restructuring projects after a major divestiture. As a banker, he participated in the lending operations of a $500 million portfolio consisting of startups to major multinationals. And prior to banking, he supported the international equity portfolio management process of a private bank. On the entrepreneurial side, he has done consulting work for American Banker, the Financial Planning magazine, and has helped several startups and small businesses with finance and accounting, systems implementation, and business strategy.

Eddie holds an MBA in Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business and studied psychology and philosophy as an undergraduate.

Phillip Kim -- No email address yet... --