David Cheeho Cho, CFA, FRM

• Invest across AC, venture capital, and private equity-style investment structures spanning early-stage, growth, and buyout-oriented strategies. • Lead sourcing, underwriting, execution, and portfolio value creation across AI, data infrastructure, and regulated technology sectors. • Participate in institutional capital allocation across structured investment programs and multi-stage investment vehicles. • Work with founders and portfolio companies across product development, commercialization, scaling, and exit. • Focus on opportunities where capital structure, regulation, and technology convergence define long-term outcomes. AI / EdTech / DeepTech / Digital Healthcare / FMCG and Hidden Legacy In 2025, about ₩160bn($110m) AUM was achieved in one year from Mar. (2024 Top tier in Korea) - Furiosa AI - SDT - TES in KOSDAQ

Private Equity Firm in Korea. • Youngest Partner in firm history • Executed growth-stage and buyout investments with focus on value creation and exit optimization Main Sector (in Global) • FMCG, Bio/Pharma, ICT, Fintech Specialty in charge: • Pre-merger integration • Leveraging Quantitative/Qualitative Analytics • Establishing Competitive Intelligence • Target 3-D scanning on blind issues • Making the big picture Miscellaneous: • Private Wealth Management Strategy / Algorithmic Trading / Hedge Fund • Strategic Secondment to escape in Walking Dead...and to invigorate

Hyun Investment, Private Equity (fka SBI PE, financial affiliate in SBI Group) / AUM USD 650m with PI Focus : Private Equity Fund - Buyout / Venture Capital M&A Advisory - Corporate Finance, Partnership, Strategy / Principal Investment / Post Deal Integration / IPO / Governance / PMI / EIR Cross Border - Joint Venture / Equity, Mezzanine Running in charge : with PI vehicle Buyout - Deal amount : USD 60m - Sector : FMCG / Bio-Pharma Infra / IOT VC - Deal amount : USD 20m - Sector : 1st : ICT / FinTech / Digital Health Care / FMCG 2nd : Blockchain / PropTech - Focusing in Exit : NASDAQ, TSX.V, CSE, SGX Joint Venture - Participate in : SK Holdings, Hana TI, KSBC

For Startup focus, - Build up Investment Vehicle / Term Structuring (Equity/Bond Crowd funding) - Private Equity - Portfolio Managing - Funnel Sourcing - Due Diligence - IPO Strategy build up : KSM, KONEX, KOSDAQ

• Startup Accelerator with Hanwha Dream Plus (founding partner of DP), Principal Investment / General Manager - Co-operating startup accelerating program(Synpath : Bio/Digital Healthcare division) with Hanwha Dream Plus accelerator in Gangnam : 1st series completed - Completed Series A fundrasing in two accelerating startups • Open Innovation & In-house venture build up / Senior Manager - Launched in-house startup at October, closed Q&A service(like Quora) for medical expertise in Web, App (Android, iOS) - Built up the global trade & abroad distribution company at August, second in-house venture • Supporting total management to re-structure Group corporation structure : Group New-Biz Holding Company, all affiliate include in-house ventures

Boutique / Private investment, Startup accelerator, Open Innovation Strategy, Company builder • Accelerated and Invested two startup company and business model including digital transformation strategy approach • Invested startups for private equity in Seed, Series A stage • Led to build up the joint venture project to invest about KRW 3bn for IOT business with Military Mutual and Association(Korea pension fund) as sequencing project that trade kinds of military gizmo to improve the efficiency from Pentagon

Investment Deal, Partnership Lead(Stake Exit) • Successfully completed exit through acquisition by Kakao Healthcare. • Supported the process of Series A fundraising from KITEEF(KITE Entrepreneurship Foundation) in TIPS(Tech Incubator Program for startup Korea) program • Led to establish joint venture and investment through direct deal making with Mr. Lee, CEO of Dong-A socio holdings, build up the business model like ‘Palantir’, ‘Optumlabs’, ‘SentinelInitiative’ in digital transforming open innovation • Led product development, commercialization, fundraising, and strategic growth initiatives.

Big Data Start-up for health care, Fin-tech Working with HIRA (Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service) and fin-tech peer Technology Commercialization Lead • Led commercialization initiatives for ETRI-originated technologies. • Developed prototype services aligned with South Korea’s MyData framework and regulated data infrastructure initiatives. • Coordinated collaboration among research institutions, industry stakeholders, and policy participants. • Contributed to technology transfer, commercialization strategy, and market adoption initiatives. • Built the Big-Data insight model using all diagnosis of personal patients of the whole nation about 50m or prescription about 1.4bn per year in Korea from HIRA for government project

Start-up. Acquired by Japan Company(Confidential Agreement) through strategic M&A (Counter Proposal Series A to M&A) - Led whole M&A process including PMI (post merger integration) based in counter proposal CoreaTrip using 'Mystery Deal' & 'Last Minute' : New concept Hotel Reservation Service • Founder of ‘Coreatrip Inc.’ that provide new concept of hotel reservation service through ‘Mystery Deal’ like ‘Priceline’ and ‘Last minute’ is that booking deal give a discount of over 50% off the normal price in a daily • Built whole strategy, marketing plan and execution to acquire user by experience core value of service • Achieved partnership in 15 top tier five-star grade hotels (Lotte hotel, Walker Hill W, Grand Hyatt, Grand Hilton, Hidden Bay in Yeoju, etc.) and 32 hotel below five-stars include business hotels • Completed the exit process as strategic merger & acquisition, Acquired by Japan company’s subsidiary...

Start-up. Korea University Holdings Subsidiary Music providing service to support offline stores (café, restaurant, hotel, department store, etc.) to use suitable music legitimately. • Launched web based brand for premium store music service with O2O app for ad • Achieved partnership from 4 brand 32 store music service to 30 franchises brand about 1100 stores, individual 200 stores music service provided (Uniqlo, Outback steak house, Lotte Mart, Lotte Hotel, Coffee Bean, etc.) • Led the direct meeting with CEO and C-level for partnership (Amore Pacific, Homeplus, Lotte group, BGF retail, GS retail, etc) • Led the valuation & fund raising process for Seed(KU holdings), Series A funding(Seoul IP) : Stake exit • Increased to quintuple of the sales revenue compared to last year, Compound Average Growth Rate(CAGR) 123.6% upward, IRR 40.8% • Attained Break Even Point (BEP) in six months to engage

• Participated in new business development at Task Force in head office • Supported to analyze opportunities for new business developments through market and industry with internal/external firm research to report regarding affiliate synergy analysis of association with new business • Researched and newly developed mobile technology about 3G, LTE and next generation mobile environment like mobile 2.0 : Analyze Standard ITU 3GPP LTE, WCDMA for smart phone based 3G in SK, KT

Based on Wireless Data Communication/Network Science, Mobile Computing, VANET and Neural Network(AI) Neural Network - A sort of mainstream approach before era of Machine Learning based on Big-Data in Artificial Intelligence & Early models of Transformer Support Vector Machine / Naive Bayesian / Perceptron / CNN-RNN VANET - Embryonic stage concept of Autonomous Vehicles IOT platform - Connected Home, Smart Workspace Representative, of graduate school in Korea Univ. Publication • “Multi-Room IPTV Delivery through Pseudo-Broadcast over IEEE 802.11 Links”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-spring 2010 (2014) • “Quality and efficiency improvement of IPTV Traffic on IEEE 802.11 Networks”, 2009 Graduation Thesis • “The study about recognized service trend by measure the Youtube”, 2008 KICS in Korea

President, of student body of information & communication college in Korea Univ.