Jaewon set up and led EY-Parthenon Korea since its inception.
Jaewon has over 23 years of strategy consulting experience specialized in addressing business challenges faced by private equities and their portfolio companies. He has successfully completed over 300 M&A-related projects spanning across the M&A value chain of private equities, including fund strategy, deal sourcing, due diligence and value creation.
Jaewon’s business insights through years of experience as both strategy consultant and M&A specialist have contributed to clients’ profitable investment even under the current challenging environment. In one good example, he successfully helped one of the global PE firms to realize ~3.6x return from one of its portfolio companies only within 2 years after acquisition.
He serves as an advisor to one of the largest pension funds in the world, for its investment portfolio decisions.
How Jaewon building a better working world
"I have been serving as a board member of EY Korea’s charity program with the aim of driving a better working world. I also take tremendous interest in encouraging entrepreneurial spirit among our younger generations and actively participate in entrepreneurial coaching programs."