Tom (Kiung) Ku

VC | Crypto Fund | Blockchain Investment & Media | STO

South Korea

About

Experience

  • Senior Advisor at BitBlock Group
    Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

    BitBlock Group is a worldwide startup investment, consulting and service corporation. It is the holding company for BitBlock Capital and BitWork Hub. The America headquarter is in Boston and China headquarter is in Hangzhou. We also have branches in Singapore and Beijing. BitBlock Capital is a venture capital focusing on investments in the fields of AI, IoT, and financial services. BitBlock provides early-stage investments as well as whole startup services such as startup incubation, business modeling and media marketing. We connect high-quality projects with users and professional industry resources.

  • Founder/CEO at TomKu Video
    Jun 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

    TomKu Video is a video channel on https://www.facebook.com/TomKuVideo and Blockchainhub.kr that interviews blockchain/crypto projects and key players. This channel serves as a venue where not only good things are discussed but also potential weaknesses or problems are genuinely brought out, challenged and tackled. TomKu Live aims to become the most valuable source for everyone who's engaged or interested in blockchain/crypto. FreeDrop (freedrop.me) is an Airdrop Portal for both pre-ICO and listed coins. FreeDrop provides largely community pumping and contents pushing services. With FreeDrop, projects - either pre-ICO or listed - can increase their community in the most organic, effective manner, and also share their important news or interviews. Especially TomKu Live in conjunction with FreeDrop provides promotional videos and pumps up the subscriber and viewership of these videos.

  • CEO / Co-Founder at BitSchool
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    BitSchool is the developer and owner of the Personalized Learning Solution (PLS) that comprises PLS Assessment, PLS Learning and PLS Exam. The PLS will provide the ideal personalized learning environment by enabling accurate assessment of the learners' understanding and progress of courses and consequently optimal curriculum planning; providing adaptive mock tests that help learners' practice their gained knowledge and identify/address knowledge gaps by presenting instant appropriate learning materials; and fully automated adaptive exams that allow gauging the true performance of test takers and minimizing the exam administration cost and resources. Also by leveraging the blockchain, BitSchool creates an Intellectual Property System for education contents creators by its Paid-Per-Use system that allows contents creators trace their contents transactions and get paid. Furthermore, the blockchain based GoGreenFund grants token scholarships to low-income learners; hence contributing to enhancing equal learning opportunities. As the scholarships are circulated on the BitSchool platform only, it roles as an effective token stabilization mechanism as well.

  • Founder & CEO at EssayPartners.Com
    Jul 2010 - Dec 2017 · 7 yrs 6 mos

    As chief admission consultant, help clients with essay drafts, resumes, recommendations, interview preps, and admission strategies; achieved over 150 successful admissions to all top schools including CBS, MIT Sloan, Stanford, Kellogg, Chicago, UC Berkeley, Duke, Tuck, NYU, INSEAD, LBS and etc. Designed and developed admission-consulting application ‘Selfeditor.co.kr’ built upon HTML5, CSS3, PHP5, Java, Jquery and MySql5. This tool provided an online shopping mall of admissions information of top MBA and Business Master programs, and also incorporated a admission-consulting function which linked clients with consultant. Established and ran admission Blog (blog.naver.com/gootho) from 2009 providing free admission information of and insights into the top MBA and Business Master admission processes. Also set up and managed EssayPartners Website (www.essaypartners.com) from 2009. Also conducted business services such as job-interview preps for top companies such as Mckinsey. Conducted client interviews, designed presentation materials, and performed onside researches for projects of multinational companies such as Samsung Electronics in the US.

  • Senior Manager at Ernst & Young Global Consulting Services
    Aug 2010 - Feb 2011 · 7 mos

    Headed a business-contingency planning project for NH Bank (National Agricultural Cooperative Federation)