JP Lee

JP is the CEO and Managing Partner of SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA), where he oversees and makes investments for the corporate venture capital firm into high-tech startups in Asia, Israel, the US, and the EU. Before becoming CEO in 2018, JP was a Partner at SBVA for three years. He also currently holds eight board and advisory roles, including as Board Member at Toss Lab, a SaaS enterprise software company and as Member of Board of Directors at medical artificial intelligence (AI) company, Lunit and MyMusicTaste, a fan-initiated concert making platform.A serial technology entrepreneur and investor, JP has been exploring the phenomenon of technological disruption and aims to discover start-ups that have the potential to greatly impact economies, business models and people. Prior to joining SBVA, he was Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Enswers, a video search technology company acquired by Tribune Media in 2015. There, he commercialised and drove the development of Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), negotiating with Samsung Electronics to apply ACR technology to all Smart TVs in North America. Prior to Enswers, JP was Vice President of Business Development at Gretech- GOMTV, South Korea’s largest internet video service. He also ran the GOM Star League –the world’s first e-sports league serving over 100 million viewers and negotiated multi-million dollar licensing deals with Google, Intel and Warner Brothers.Earlier in his career, JP was the Founder and CEO of start-up Evixar Inc., a web-based remote control platform that developed and provided the largest PC remote control service in Japan. Evixar was acquired by public company Dacom in 2004.JP studied at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), majoring in Computer Science.