– Recruiting experts to strengthen company-wide digital capabilities based on PropTech… CDO Yang Ho-cheol to play a central role in the digital innovation sector
– Possesses numerous successful IT project experiences at major portals and mobile carriers
– “We expect that CDO Yang will contribute to completing the innovation business roadmap with his outstanding technological competitiveness and leadership.”
S&I Corporation ( CEO Hyung Won-jun, hereinafter referred to as S&I), a comprehensive real estate management company based on PropTech, announced on the 18th that it has hired Yang Ho-cheol, a digital innovation expert, as CDO (Chief Digital Transformation Officer) to achieve its business vision of '1 trillion won in sales' and accelerate growth.
CDO Yang Ho-cheol is an expert who has led technological innovation at major domestic portals such as Kakao, NHN Business Platform (now Naver), and Daum Communications. At Kakao, he was in charge of planning and developing commerce and advertising platform services and was in charge of strategies for the IT business sector. In addition, based on his experience in successfully executing projects in the IT technology field, he served as co-CEO and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) at Kakao Commerce, which was an independent company (CIC) within Kakao. He also founded Blue Whale (now Aimo), an AI-based data processing solution company, and demonstrated his technological expertise and leadership.
CDO Yang will join S&I and lead company-wide digital innovations such as establishing IT strategies, optimizing infrastructure, and managing information security risks. S&I plans to accelerate its sales target of KRW 1 trillion by combining its digital capabilities, strengthened by the hiring of CDO Yang Ho-cheol, with its competitive edge in real estate management. In addition, S&I plans to change the name of its IT division from the existing CIO (Chief Information Officer) to CDO and establish a corporate culture based on IT strategies to spur securing future growth engines.
Hyungwon Jun, CEO of S&I, said, “For the past 50 years, S&I has created unrivaled competitiveness and performance in the real estate management industry based on differentiated proptech capabilities.” He added, “We expect that the outstanding technological capabilities and leadership of CDO Yang will greatly contribute to completing S&I’s innovative business roadmap.”
Meanwhile, S&I is a PropTech-based comprehensive real estate management company with experience in managing over 500 buildings and 21,000 stores, including major buildings of LG Group affiliates. It has led the industry’s digital transformation (DX) by introducing about 100 different space management solutions, including the Integrated Operation Center (IOC), Building Facility Management System (atG), Office Life Care App (Sandy App), Space Management Specialized E-Commerce Mall (Sandy Mall), and Real Estate Asset Management Platform (Sandy Property). In addition, it is actively pursuing a comprehensive real estate management business model that encompasses the entire commercial real estate value chain, including facility management (FM), real estate asset management (PM), renovation, and lease management (LM) including purchase and sale.
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