Our leadership shares with professional staff in the camaraderie and history of POINTek, which has been critical to the successful growth of POINTek since its establishment.

Tae Hyung Rhee: Dr. Rhee is the Founder, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer. Prior to founding POINTek, TH was the Optical Device R&D Team Leader with Samsung Electronics (Korea). He led the team to receive Technology Award of the Year 1998. TH has authored many technical papers in this field and over 60 patents to his credit. He has been involved in organizing many technical conferences as an organizer or served on the organizing committees. Currently, he is a founding member of Asia-Pacific Polymer Fiber Optic Workshop. His specialty is in optical materials, silicon processes, packaging processes and reliability analysis.

Donald Dong-Pil Yu: Dr. Yu is the CMO and President-US Operation for Global Planning and Marketing in our US office. He contributes his thirty years of experience in Information Technology and top executive management. Donald was formerly the CEO at Hanjin Information System Telecom and served CIO for Korean Air.  He held Technical Director and Chief Architect positions in US companies such as Unisys (including formerly Sperry-Univac), Syscon, and RLG Corporation. He has been serving a visiting scholar and associate director at the University of California Irvine, conducting research on the current issues in computer-communication and information technology.

Hyung Jae Lee: Dr. Lee is Chief Technology Officer. He was a founding member of planar optical device research in Samsung Electronics (Korea) where he worked as Principal Engineer/Technical Manager-Planar Optical Packaging in R&D and he initiated the Planar Optical Research Direction for Samsung Electronics. He was the key engineering staff to complete the development of the planar optical device packaging processes. HJ was jointly awarded the Technology Award of the Year in 1998 from Samsung Electronics. He is an author of many technical publications and an author of 20 registered patents. His specialty is in integrated optical chip fabrication, optical packaging for both active and passive devices, and passive alignment process.