Ken Rhee joined Cambridge Wilkinson as a managing director. Rhee is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in strategic business development and transformation, mergers and acquisitions and business incubation spanning various industries including banking, IT, manufacturing, consumer products and retail and hospitality. Rhee has a proven track record in creating and implementing business transformation strategies for growing enterprises within fast-moving industries in both the U.S. and Korea. Rhee is specialized in global business expansion for Korean and U.S. companies through international gateway advisory services. Services range from market entry strategy and execution, M&A, joint venture partnerships to marketing strategy and execution. Clientele has included a wide range of both Korean and U.S.-based financial institutions, PE, Hospitality, manufacturing, IT and electronic and distribution companies.

Rhee previously held the role of senior director of strategy, new business development, IT, and database marketing for the entire SK Group. In this role, he successfully oversaw the group’s new business development, database marketing as well as IT structure and development for SK Telecom and SK C&C. Rhee began his career at IBM in New York where he focused on operational research and programming. Following, he led a successful consulting career at Arthur Andersen (now Accenture) in New York where he oversaw strategy, IT, manufacturing, distribution and banking industries. After Arthur Anderson opened a Seoul office, he relocated to Seoul to lead Arthur Anderson’s strategic business developments.

“We are excited to have Ken join the team to further expand our international reach. Ken’s knowledge of the banking sector and the breadth of his network will be a valuable asset to our team,” Rob Bolandian, co-founder and global head of investment banking at Cambridge Wilkinson, said.