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Lee Jae-won is the Chairman and CEO of Suprema and Suprema HQ.

He is focusing on expanding the company’s global market share based on artificial intelligence-based security solution technology.

He was born in Seoul on September 29, 1968.

He graduated from Dankook University High School and earned his bachelor’s degree in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University. He received his master’s degree in the same field and his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the graduate school of Seoul National University.

He served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the United States before fulfilling his military duty through an alternative service program at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.

In 2000, he founded Suprema, which is now known as Suprema HQ.

He has served as Vice Chairman of the Korea Biometric Association (KBA), Vice President of the Korea Information Security Industry Association (KISIA), and Vice President of the Korea Venture Business Association.

He is a full member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

He embraces a flexible management philosophy. Judging that microelectromechanical systems had limited business potential, he shifted the company’s focus to fingerprint recognition technology.

He knows how to turn risks into opportunities. In the early 2000s, domestic trust in fingerprint recognition technology was very low, so he targeted overseas markets first.

He values technology. He invests more than 10% of revenue in research and development and has structured 50% of the company’s workforce as R&D personnel.

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