Experience

MBA Mentored Study — Real Estate Investment & Development

Trademark Properties

Commercial real estate investment and development firm

Conducted an applied real estate investment study with Trademark Properties focused on the Raleigh office market, combining property tours, market research, and asset-level underwriting to evaluate investment and development considerations.

• Conducted property tours and market research across the Raleigh office submarket to support the firm's underwriting lead in evaluating investment and development considerations for a confidential acquisition opportunity.
• Built a fully linked, scenario-based acquisition underwriting model — cash flow, debt structuring, return, and sensitivity analysis over a multi-year hold — reconciled against executed leases and broker materials.
• Delivered a decision-ready underwriting analysis supporting the firm's live acquisition evaluation, alongside the academic deliverables required for the Duke Fuqua Mentored Study course.

Summer Associate

Ownership Capital Lab

Initiative focused on expanding access to capital for employee-owned (EO) businesses

A Duke Fuqua MBA summer engagement focused on capital-access structuring for employee-owned businesses, spanning CDFI lending research, guarantee design, and SBA financing mechanics.

• Conducted lender-landscape research across Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and analyzed personal-guarantee practices in small-business and cooperative lending.
• Contributed to the design of guarantee and philanthropic first-loss structures aimed at reducing personal-guarantee requirements for employee-owned businesses, including ESOPs, employee ownership trusts (EOTs), and worker cooperatives.
• Researched SBA 7(a) loan program mechanics relevant to financing employee-ownership transitions.

Pre-MBA Venture Capital Intern

Trigger Investment Partners

Pre-MBA venture capital internship focused on early-stage investment evaluation and institutional fund diligence.

• Evaluated 20+ early-stage investment opportunities and conducted due diligence for two government LP-backed funds.
• Served as an evaluator for early-stage investor presentations.

Senior Manager, Investment Division

Korea Asset Investment

Asset management affiliate of Bosung (~$7B AUM), which operates 60+ affiliates

Real estate investment and financing mandate for the investment division, spanning origination, underwriting, capital-stack structuring, and capital raising across logistics, residential, and office assets in the Korean market.

• Led a 5-member team to execute 6 financings worth $290M across logistics, residential, and office sectors in 2 years — driving sourcing, fundraising, structuring, and expansion of the investor base.
• Built a new lender network across Korea's non-bank sector (40+ of 79 savings banks), enabling 4 of 6 executed deals and diversifying the investor base for real estate financings.
• Directed a $163.6M forward purchase of office assets in prime business districts, leveraging market research to guide asset selection and pricing; secured a 20% return prior to project completion.
• Sourced a $35.5M loan for an NYSE-listed e-commerce company's logistics center and secured investors, driving development in an overlooked area and boosting projected IRR by 25% through early repayment.

Associate, Investment Banking Division

IBK Securities

Securities subsidiary of Industrial Bank of Korea, a state-owned financial institution

Cross-border U.S. real estate financing for Korean institutional investors across office, logistics, and multifamily assets, complemented by structured-finance execution and ongoing securitization portfolio management.

• Executed 4 U.S. real estate financings ($306M across office, logistics, and multifamily), preparing information memoranda, building financial models, and coordinating investor communication.
• Structured cross-border real estate loans tailored to mid-sized domestic institutions by addressing their return requirements; mobilized $20M from domestic investors making their first overseas investment.
• Developed fixed-income products by combining sovereign CDS and structured bonds to diversify income beyond real estate; managed a $500M balance sheet and stabilized portfolio returns.
• Managed approximately $450M in annual securitization issuance and ongoing portfolio activities across ABCP, ABSTB, and synthetic CDO products.
• Originated $200M+ in domestic project-finance and land-acquisition financings for residential and mixed-use projects by sourcing opportunities and structuring deals.

Director, Overseas Business Development

WISEPOWER

Startup and sole Korean supplier of Yanxuan, an affiliate of NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES)

• Discovered and connected Korean suppliers to NetEase's e-commerce platform; attracted over 10,000 visitors at the Qingdao Expo and generated $380K in annual sales.

Associate, Banking Department

ICBC Korea

State-owned bank of China with $6.7T in assets

Cross-border mortgage lending desk within a Chinese state bank's Seoul banking operations.

• Arranged and administered Korea's first syndicated interim mortgage loan by a Chinese bank, onboarding 1,000 new clients and expanding the loan portfolio by $123M.

Intern

11 Street Malaysia

• Supported sales performance tracking and campaign analysis by managing sales data and preparing reports for new e-commerce promotions.

Sergeant

Republic of Korea Army

KATUSA (Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army), 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army

Military liaison and support role within KATUSA's Korea-based ROK-U.S. combined forces operations, spanning interpretation, exercise coordination, and troop onboarding.

• Dispatched as lead interpreter for ROK-U.S. joint war game exercises; served as liaison and facilitated real-time coordination and operational planning between allied forces.
• Managed onboarding and base assignments for over 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea, providing local briefings to support smooth settlement and integration.