Young Sohn is president and chief strategy officer for Samsung Electronics. He leads development and implementation of the strategy behind the global innovation and future business agenda for Samsung. In this role, he is responsible for accelerating open innovation and investment in new and emerging businesses and technologies being developed worldwide. Young previously served as CEO of Oak Technologies, Agilent Semiconductor, Inphi Corporation and President of Quantum Corporation. In addition, he helped to take three companies public while serving as either CEO or as a board member (at PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies and Inphi). He currently serves on the MIT Sloan School NA Board, is a senior advisor to private equity firm Silverlake Partners, and is a member of the board of directors at Cadence. He served on the Boards of ARM, Synnex Corporation and Cymer, Inc.