Three SK Group professional management vice chairs join SK Hynix... Likely to strengthen global business including AI

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Three SK Group professional management vice chairs are joining SK Hynix, drawing attention.

According to industry sources on the 18th, Vice Chair Yoo Jeong-jun of SK Group (North America), Vice Chair Seo Jin-woo of SK Group (China), and Vice Chair Lee Hyung-hee of SK Corp joined SK Hynix effective the 15th. With these three joining, three out of four professional management vice chairs in SK Group—excluding the owner family—are now positioned at SK Hynix.

These executives are evaluated as having extensive experience managing overseas businesses and major affiliates within SK Group. Consequently, this personnel move is interpreted as an effort to deploy management teams with global market experience to strengthen SK Hynix's global business and external cooperation.

Vice Chair Yoo previously served as CEO of SK E&S and SK On, leading North American energy and battery businesses and supply chain development. Vice Chair Seo led the group's China business after serving as chairman of SK Telecom and CEO of SK Planet. Vice Chair Lee also managed overall group affairs including external relations and communications after holding positions such as head of SK Telecom operations and CEO of SK Broadband.

These vice chairs have been conducting sequential one-on-one in-depth interviews with SK Hynix executives since last month. It is reported that approximately 250 executives, excluding Director Kwak No-jeong (CEO) and outside directors, are the interview targets.

Such comprehensive interviews targeting all executives at SK Hynix mark the first time since SK Group acquired the company in 2012—14 years later. At that time, Director Choi Tae-won (Chairman) personally met with executives to review business status and organizational conditions.

SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won concurrently serves as chairman of SK Hynix. As a core affiliate that has grown into a key pillar of the group, SK Hynix is leading SK Group's performance this year amid an unprecedented semiconductor boom. The company is also taking the lead in implementing AX (Artificial Intelligence transformation), the group's vision.

SK Hynix reported record-breaking results for the first half of this year alone, with revenue of 131.895 trillion won and operating profit of 98.1529 trillion won.

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