Hyuk-Jeen Suh

Hyuk-Jeen Suh is the General Partner of SkyRiver Ventures, a deep tech and digital health focused venture capital fund investing in frontier technologies. He is the cofounder of ven^x, a collaborative VC hub in Boston to foster cooperation, syndication, and knowledge sharing among deeptech VCs. 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 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. 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 Corporation as a process engineer.
Hyuk-Jeen advises startup companies and is a mentor at various startup accelerators in the U.S., Canada, and Asia. He serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Yale University, startup mentor for the Blackstone Launchpad at Cornell University, and National Science Foundation i-Corp venture mentor at Northeastern University.
Hyuk-Jeen earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his MBA from Yale School of Management. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering, BA in economics, and ME in electrical engineering, all from Cornell University.