Workshop Speakers

Suk-Joon Kim, Representative Director, Korea, Refinitiv

Suk-Joon KIM has 20 years’ work experiences on Korea Financial Industry, focusing IT solution and Data Services. As representative director of Refinitiv Korea, he works with most of the financial industry – Banks, Buy Side, Sell Side and Corporates. During the era of Innovation worldwide, Refinitiv Korea are deeply involved on Data Driven Innovation Process across world. He is highly interested in how to contribute such innovation into Korea financial industries. Before Refinitiv, he had worked in global IT solution business in SunGard as Head of Korea, where he works with many global/ local firms in various area, covering Front to Back listed exchange trading, OTC trading, Enterprise Risk Management, Security Financing and Compliance. 

김석준, 레피니티브 코리아 대표

김석준 대표는 20년 이상 한국 금융권의 IT 솔루션과 데이터 서비스 부분에 종사해 왔습니다. 레피니티브 코리아의 대표로서 은행, 바이사이드, 셀사이드, 기업등 다양한 금융기관과 함께 업무를 하고 있읍니다.  전세계적인 혁신의 시기에 맞추어, 레피니티브는 전세계적인 규모로 데이터에 기반한 혁신 프로세스에 깊이 연관되어 있습니다. 그는 이러한 혁신을 한국 금융시장에 도입하는 부분에 공헌하고자 노력하고 있습니다.  또한 그는 세계적인 금융 솔루션 회사인 선가드에서 한국 대표를 지냈었고, 이 기간동안 다양한 국내외 금융사들과 장내 거래, 장외 파생 거래, 기업 리스크 관리, 증권 금융 및 컴플라이언스에 이르는 다양한 영역에 대한 IT 솔루션 및 인프라 선진화에 기여하여 왔습니다. 

Sophie Park, Proposition Sales Specialist, Refinitiv

Sophie is Proposition Sales Specialist for South Korea at Refinitiv. Her remit is to represent the Risk Business in South Korea with a primary responsibility for generating revenues in the region. She joined Thomson Reuters in 2017 as Account Manager for the Financial & Risk sector where she served global banks and SMB corporations. Prior to that, she served and managed portfolios of individual investors from Korea and South East Asia in Crédit Industriel et Commercial private bank in Singapore in sales & relationship management and compliance team. 

Sophie holds Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management and maintains adoration for travel. Also, Sophie is a member of Risky Women and passionate about social equality, gender balance and diversity.

Ranajit Dam, Managing Editor, Asian Legal Business

Ranajit Dam is the Managing Editor of Thomson Reuters Legal Media Group, which includes Asian Legal Business, Asia’s foremost monthly publication covering the legal industry. A former lawyer, Dam has been a journalist for more than a decade, after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, he has worked in the United States, India, China and Singapore, where he is currently based.