1. About Samho Green Investments (SGI)
Founded in 2007, SGI is the first and only venture capital firm in Korea focused on the clean growth sector, including renewable en-
ergy, green and agricultural technologies. We engage in venture capital and private equity investments for mergers & acquisitions and
buyouts, and conduct business as well as engineering consulting for our portfolio and client companies.
Our investment focus areas are cleantech, including green technology (greentech) commercialization, green infrastructure and ag-
ricultural technologies (agritech), as well as early-stage project development. We have an experienced team of in-house cleantech
specialists and an extensive domestic and international cleantech network, which assists us in deal sourcing, value creation and exit
management.
SGI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samho Development Group, a Korean conglomerate operating since 1976, comprised of Samho
Development Co., Ltd. (KRX-listed), Samho Resources, Inc., Samho Enviro-Tech, Inc., Samho Geo-Engineers, Inc. and Samho SH
Investment, Inc. We are headquartered in the heart of Korea’s financial sector, on the 8th Floor of the Hanmaru Building, 24-5 Yeouido-
Dong, Youngdeungpo-Gu, Seoul, Korea 150-877. We have established representative offices in Palo Alto and Singapore. Our main
switchboard number is 822 3453 5500, and our website is www.sgivc.com.
Investment Strategy
SGI’s investment strategy is based on origination and exit via extensive networks and partnerships with public, private and non-profit
institutions, intensive research and due diligence for selection and allocation and broad clean tech industry experience across the Asia-
Pacific region, for execution and management through exit.
As a venture capital fund, we are dedicated to seeking out new opportunities for extraordinary growth and profits for our investors, via
the identification of opportunities and the provision of services that add value to our portfolio companies from inception through exit.
Investment Focus
SGI’s areas of investment and management experience are:
Cleantech Commercialization & Early-Stage Development, including waste energy, battery & fuel cell technologies, green vehicles,
energy efficiency, renewable energy, nanotechnology and organic & printed electronics (OPE),
Clean Infrastructure based on Mature Technologies, including waste to energy plants, bio-mass plants, wind power facilities, solar
facilities, bio-fuel plants and green buildings, and
Eco-FriendlyAgritech, including eco-friendly pesticides & fertilizers, greenhouses & vertical farms, agricultural water quality projects,
clean processing facilities, cold-chain systems, plant growth promotion, farming systems with resource circulation and the restoration
of contaminated lands.
Value-Added Management
SGI’s management team members have an average of 15+ years experience in investment and risk management, and our technical team
has an average of 20+ years of experience in the clean sector. This in-house technical team augments SGI’s Advisory Services Group
(“SGAS”), which focuses on international transactions. Together, they assist with market, technology and target company analyses,
feasibility studies and valuation. It is SGI’s view that this technical diligence improves both deal execution and post-investment con-
trols and cost-management, so that exits are facilitated efficiently. Finally, the technical team’s importance in providing engineering
and environmental services cannot be overemphasized.
SGAS also includes dedicated incubation & globalization teams that assist portfolio companies in overcoming the difficulties of entre-
preneurship and management, as well as with regard to their outreach to international markets. In short, SGI is not simply a financial
investor, but rather an expert partner to cleantech portfolio companies.
Fund Profiles
To date, SGI’s three (3) funds have focused on Korean cleantech investments. They are the KOFC-SGI Green Industry Fund #1
(primary LP: Korean Finance Corporation), targeting renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon emissions; the MIFAFF-SGI
Green Growth Fund #5 (primary LP: Korean Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries), targeting renewable energy and
eco-friendly Agritech; and the Jeonnam Green Energy Fund (primary LPs: Jeonnam Provincial Government and the Korean Small &
Medium Business Administration), targeting renewable energy projects and companies in Jeonnam. These funds total approximately
U$40 million.
SGI is in the process of raising an international fund under the auspices of the Asian Development Bank’s Climate Change and Clean
Energy Initiative. This fund, when closed, is targeted to total U$100 million.

2. Management Team Bios
Tae-Soo Yang, CEO
Tae-Soo has worked with M&As, buyouts and restructurings for over 20 years, including as the Executive Managing Director at I&D Venture Capital
and a founding member of one of Korea’s leading VC firms (Tong Yang Investment Corp., tyvc.co.kr). He is also a member of the Korean Environmental
Venture Association and serves as an Auditor General for the Korea Core Industrial Technology Investment Association (kitia.or.kr). At KITIA, he is
responsible for affecting key Korean government policies for the Ministry of Knowledge and Economy. He was also founding member of Korea’s largest
credit rating firm (nice.co.kr), conducting bond and commercial paper analyses. After the Korean IMF Crisis, Tae-Soo worked extensively in restructur-
ings and turnarounds for troubled Korean companies. Tae-Soo received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University (yon-
sei.ac.kr) and his Masters in engineering economics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (kaist.ac.kr). His areas of research
included investment management, feasibility analysis and methodologies. He also completed doctoral coursework in strategic decision-making. Tae-Soo
was the founder of SGI, the Korea’s first green venture capital firm.
Soo-Bong Cho, Executive Vice President
Soo-Bong’s career in risk management, credit rating, valuation, feasibility studies and investment spans 25 years. He has built strong relationships with
companies and institutional investors over this period. He has served as an Executive Managing Director of Korea’s largest credit rating agency, National
Information & Credit Evaluation Inc. (NICE, www.nice.co.kr). He was a founding member of NICE and was in charge of credit rating division with 60
credit analysts. His work at NICE included credit rating for bonds, CP, structured finance products such as ABS, CBO, and feasibility study for PF &
corporate project, valuation for securities % asset, research service in court receivership & composition matters. He served as an advisor to the risk com-
mittee of financial institution and as a member of loan committee of coal industry promotion board. He has also served as a member of the board for Dunn
& Bradstreet Korea and NICE Pricing Services, and a professor in feasibility study at the Korea Banking Institute. He received his Bachelor’s degree in
Business Administration at Seoul National University. Soo Bong co-founded SGI with Tae-Soo Yang.
Kyung-Chul Min, Director and Investment Manager I
Kyung-Chul has had a long career as a venture capitalist. He started working as a corporate restructuring specialist and analyst for Seoul Capital Holdings
Inc, where he was responsible for the restructuring of 4 major companies and managing the restructuring fund worth U$17 million. He then moved to
I&D Venture Capital as an M&A fund manager, where he successfully bought Seshin Co.,Ltd for U$20 million and worked out its successful exit. He also
managed an U$8.6 million investment fund with I&D Invest, and at Hansol i Ventures, Inc., he controlled 7 successful investments totaling U$62 million
while managing an U$11 million investment fund. Kyung-Chul graduated from Ajou University BS in Physics.
Myeong-Hwan Kim, Director and Investment Manager II
Myeong-Hwan has a pristine record in the investment business. He has 13 years of experience in the fields of M&A, venture capital and private equity.
He started his career with Korea Technology Finance Corporation and later joined KTB, one of the earliest and largest VC firms (current KTB Securities)
in Korea. While at KTB, he was responsible for 16 IPOs and back door listings on the KOSDAQ and NASDAQ, He was instrumental in 8 M&A deals
while advising Korea Gas Corporation on investment opportunities and corporate spin-offs. He has served as General Manager at KTB Capital, and As-
sistant General Manager at KTB Networks (now, KTB Securities) and the Korea Technology Finance Corporation. During the last 10 years, some of his
investment companies included conglomerate companies such as SK Communications and Phoenix PDE. He received his B.A in Chemical Engineering
from Seoul National University.
Yong-Soo Jeong, Director and Investment Manager III
Yong-Soo has spent over 7 years building his track record in M&A, venture capital and private equity fund management, and 6 years serving as a man-
agement member of venture companies. He began his career at KTB, one of the first and largest VC firms (current KTB Securities) in Korea, and was
involved in policy related lending and leasing as well as major private investments in successful venture companies such as Auction (merged with eBay
after listing), SecureSoft (major Internet security solution provider), U-way (Internet education service provider) and project financing for media sector.
He then moved to the position of Director at KTB Entertainment, building his experience in fund raising and fund management. Subsequently, he directly
engaged in the management of several venture companies including Yellow Production, where he succeeded in the back-door listing of the company on
the KOSDAQ, as well as in its overseas expansion to China through the establishment of a subsidiary in the BVI. Having returned to a venture capitalist
role since 2008 as a Director at KTIC Global Investment Advisory (a subsidiary of KTIC Group, one of Korea’s largest VC firms) and now at SGI, he
has been actively involved in venture investments and private equity fund raising. He graduated from Seoul National University with B.A. in Chemical
Engineering.
Hugo Choi, Director/Singapore and Samho Green Advisory Services
Hugo is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of operational experience. His advisory work is extremely involving with real revenue-generating results and
it includes overseas operations and fund-raising. He has worked for many multinational companies throughout his career. Mr. Choi started his career in
management consulting at Hewlett Packard, building enterprise management resource systems for manufacturing companies in Korea. He then moved
on to Barclays de Zoete Wedd, now Barclays Capital, as a Quantitative Analyst. At Equant Network Services, now France Telecom he was one of the
founding members of the Korea Office and the highest-ranked business development person in Asia for 2 consecutive years. While achieving this, he
moved on to the then 5th largest software company as the youngest Regional Director for Sales at Parametric Technology Corporation. He was awarded
3 years of president club award. Since then, he has worked as the country manager for Boston, US based companies Mirror Image Internet and Ascential
Software, building these businesses from scratch to multimillion-dollar operations. He is equipped with practical multinational business development and
strategic experience. Mr.Choi graduated from Rutgers University BSEE (1991).
Michael Paik, Director/Palo Alto and Samho Green Advisory Services
Michael has served as counsel to many US and European start-ups and venture capital funds while at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto) and
US investment banks while at Cahill Gordon & Reindel (NY). He is licensed as an attorney in both New York and California. Michael Paik was previ-
ously the Senior Vice President of Risk Management at STX Europe, Chief Technology Officer at Seoul National University’s R&DB Foundation and
Director of Technology Incubation at SNU’s College of Engineering. He was General Counsel & Director of the Global Legal Department at STX Cor-
poration, Hankook Tire Company, and the Inje Foundation/Paik Hospitals, where he continues to serve as a Trustee. He has been Counsel to the Korean
Venture Capital Association, the Korean Nurses’Association and the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, as well as Samsung Electronics, Samsung
Venture Investment Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Venture Investments and several other Korean companies. Michael has taught as a Professor at
Yonsei University’s College of Law, the Judicial Research & Training Institute, and Seoul National University’s College of Engineering, and he graduated
from Syracuse University (BA, Economics, 1991), Yale University (MBA, 1995) and Columbia University (JD, 1998).