Taehoon Kim

Taehoon Kim (TK) is a serial entrepreneur in the high-tech and online gaming sector. As co-founder and CEO of nWay–the San Francisco-based developer, publisher & tech platform for play-to-earn (P2E) games across mobile, PC, and consoles –TK plays many roles in the development and marketing for all the company’s products. nWay’s P2E games platform, nWayPlay, enables fast development, and operations of P2E games with easy on-ramp and off-ramp features. The company has a strong track record of developing high quality multiplayer games on mobile, PC, and console, such as ChronoBlade, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, WWE: Undefeated, Battlepalooza, and Olympic Games Jam.  Previously, TK co-founded Nurien Software, creating 3D virtual worlds platform Nurien and launching successful music based online game MStar. Nurien was backed by over $25 million in venture funding and was eventually acquired by Netmarble. Prior to Nurien, TK led the Korean studio for Realtime Worlds, a UK headquartered developer behind Crackdown and APB. Taehoon is also an advisor to various successful tech startups including SundayToz, Coffee meets Bagel and Cloudgine. Early in his career, TK was part of Samsung Electronics’ New Business Development team where he worked as a product manager for their smartphone based mobile gaming platform. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Master of Engineering degree in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University.