The team
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Jungkil LEE（Jake LEE）

Representative Director and President, CEO
A seasoned business leader with a 27-year track record spanning system development, global sales and marketing, M&A restructuring, and the design and execution of business strategies. Leveraging extensive experience in the display industry, he has successfully driven business expansion in global markets. Combining deep technical expertise with strategic vision, he consistently delivers results through innovative and collaborative leadership.

Junji ADACHI

Director, CSO
Experienced engineer and manager with 30+ years of experience in industry commercializing cleantech and OLED materials at Panasonic. Extensive experience incubating and collaborating with materials startups. B.S. Osaka University, Visiting Researcher, M.I.T.

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Samjin KIM

Chief Financial Officer, CFO
A professional with extensive financial and strategic experience at major global corporations. He graduated from Seoul National University (Economics), gained experience at Lotte Group and PWC Korea, and obtained an MBA from the University of Hawaii. He served an extended tenure at Samsung Electronics, where he was deeply involved in M&A and venture investment (semiconductor sector). Since 2022, he has held key roles in Investment and Business Development at SK Japan.

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Hiroaki OZAWA

Executive Officer, Research & Development
Ph.D. in Functional Molecular Science (2007). Experienced in organic, inorganic, and carbon materials. Previously worked at Nagoya and Chuo University. Joined Kyulux in 2018 to develop next-gen OLED materials.

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Masataka YAMASHITA

Executive Officer Business Development
Ph.D. in Engineering (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2017). Specialized in organic semiconductor materials. Formerly at Sharp (2017–2020). Joined Kyulux in 2020 to lead business development and support R&D.

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Hiroyuki KAWANAMI

Executive Officer, Production Control
Expert in process development and manufacturing, specializing in OLEDs and functional materials. Holds a Master’s in Engineering (Kyushu University, 2012) and previously worked at NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Materials. Joined Kyulux in 2021 to lead production management.

Keisuke YAMASHITA

Executive Director
Managing Director at MCP Asset Management (Japan), Inc., one of Asia's leading alternative investment management firms, and CIO of the Japan Evolution Fund. After graduating from Wesleyan University in the U.S., he worked on M&A advisory and capital raising at JP Morgan Securities (Japan and UK). Prior to MCP, he worked at Dymon Asia Capital Japan as Representative Director. MCP is a member of TEAM FUKUOKA in the Global Financial City Initiative.

Tsuyoshi SAKAMOTO

Outside director
Partner with QB capital, LLC. Experienced university–industry alliance coordinator and venture capitalist with a focus on university spin-offs. Holds a B.S. and MBA from Kyushu University.

Ganapathy SUBRAMANIAM

Outside director
Partner with Celesta Capital. Experienced manager and director with extensive knowledge of the semiconductor industry. Co-founder of Cosmic Circuits and senior manager at Texas Instruments. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy and receiver of awards from both industry and academia.

Lei XU

Outside director
Extensive background in finance and investment, including a B.Sc. from Shanghai University and an M.Sc. from the University of Glasgow in 2005. He has held various roles in investment and risk management, including positions at Deloitte China and Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Investment Co., Ltd. He currently serves as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Shanghai Semiconductor Equipment and Material Investment Management Co., Ltd.

David CHEN

Outside director
Managing Partner of El Camino Capital. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of California Berkeley and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University. Previously he was the founding President of InnoGrit Corporation and Vice President of Marvell Semiconductor. He holds several US and international patents and has been recognized with multiple industry and academic awards.

Toraki INOUE

Statutory Auditor
CPA, serves as Representative Director and President of Accounting at Advisory Co., Ltd. He joined ARTHUR ANDERSEN in 1980, where he acted as Worldwide Partner, as well as Representative Partner of KPMG AZSA LLC. He went on to serve as an outside auditor of Pioneer Corporation and an outside auditor of Kao Corporation, and currently serves as a supervisory director of GLP Investment Corporation and an outside auditor of Aozora Bank, Ltd.

Message from the scientific advisor of Kyulux

Prof. Chihaya Adachi, Kyushu-University

Since the latter half of the 2000s, Kyushu University’s OPERA has believed in the great potential of TADF and has been vigorously engaged in budding basic research. In 2012, Nature magazine published an article which describes the realization of an OLED TADF device with 100% internal quantum efficiency.

In 2015, Kyulux was established in order to put this technology to practical use. In order to make TADF a feasible reality, it is essential to improve not only luminous efficiency but also element durability. Kyulux started shipping commercial TADF/HF materials in 2019, and the company is aiming for increased adoption and mass production in 2022.

Kyushu University’s OPERA center supports Kyulux’s R&D efforts with core science undertakings, advanced high-speed spectroscopic analysis and theoretical modeling of TADF molecular systems and element deterioration mechanisms.

I strongly hope that the research work will lead to improved performance of practical devices, and that the full-scale commercialization of TADF will open up new possibilities for organic molecules and advanced organic optoelectronics from both academic and industrial perspectives.

Prof. Chihaya Adachi.