Hyuk-Jeen Suh

General Partner, SkyRiver Ventures

Role: Associate

Sites: CDL-Rockies, CDL-Toronto

Streams: Artificial Intelligence, Matter, Prime

Hyuk-Jeen Suh is the general partner of SkyRiver Ventures, a deep tech-focused venture capital fund investing in frontier technologies. He brings 25 years of experience in the consumer electronics, biotech, finance and semiconductor industries. Prior to SkyRiver Ventures, Hyuk-Jeen created and was the head of Samsung Ventures America’s east coast office. Before joining Samsung, he worked at J.P. Morgan investment banking in the technology, media, and telecom group. Prior to J.P. Morgan, he was the global senior business development and marketing manager at MEMSIC, a semiconductor startup. He led the global marketing strategy, which contributed to the successful IPO of the company. Before MEMSIC, Hyuk-Jeen was a senior research engineer at Sequenom, a biotech startup, where he designed DNA biochips. He began his career at Intel as a process engineer. Hyuk-Jeen earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his MBA from Yale School of Management. He holds a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, a bachelor’s in economics, and a master’s in electrical engineering, all from Cornell University.