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Kim Wan-soo is the President and CEO of HD Hyundai Robotics.

He faces the task of stabilizing profitability while also successfully completing an initial public offering.

The company is also expanding its business beyond industrial robots into collaborative robots, humanoids, and automation solutions.

He was born in 1969.

He graduated from Korea University with a degree in geology. He earned a master's degree in project management from Northwestern University in the United States and completed the MBA program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

He began his career at Jacobs Engineering in the United States, moved to Samsung Engineering, and then was promoted to Executive Vice President at Samsung C&T, where he served as Head of the Plant Business Division and Head of the New Business Planning Office.

He was recruited as Head of the New Business Planning Office at HD Hyundai, then Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings, and became a member of the HD Hyundai Group.

After serving as Head of the Management Planning Office at HD Hyundai and Head of the ESG Business Division at HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, he was appointed CEO of HD Hyundai Robotics in November 2023.

As an executive personally recruited by HD Hyundai Chairman Chung Kisun, he was given the role of putting the group's vision into concrete form at the forefront of the robot business, which the group had identified as one pillar of its future industries.

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