Susan Choe

Founder & Managing Partner

2018 - Current

Partnering with mission driven founders & teams creating global solutions across Digital Health, Fintech, & Enterprise Software Platforms. Advisors and partners across international markets provide funding, GTM advice and BD connections for commercial growth.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

2013

Choe brings more than 20 years of experience in Internet, Interactive Entertainment and Finance leading companies in North America and Asia to her position of Partner at Visionnaire Ventures. She partners with a select, global investment team, with extensive global reach and operational experience, to identify and support forward-looking tech teams impacting the world through technology in the areas of Consumer Internet, Mobile and IoT.

Investor & Entrepreneur

2011 - 2013

Advisor

2012 - 2013

Working with a cross functional team of senior executives from Softbank, Sprint and Movida to define new online content & services business to evolve relationships with hundreds of millions of mobile billing customers across Softbank's global network.

CEO/Founder

2007 - 2011

Founded Outspark & successfully combined game content and metrics driven media publishing platform serving millions of gamers in 2+ yrs. Proving out Freemium business model in North America and European online game publishing ecosystem. Leveraging online gamer behavior analytics, game design and data driven marketing campaigns, designed and drove strategic technical platform development - e.g. real-time gamer acquisition and monetization dash boards to optimize resource allocation, and web touch points for cross marketing gamers to discover various games and social communities among gamers. Successfully raising three venture rounds from firms like DCM, Altos, Syncom & Softbank. Adding strategic investors (Tencent/QQ) to build a successful online game publishing destination.

C.O.O.

2005 - 2006

As the N.American C.O.O. of a Korean public company, in search and online games, lead operational set-up of NHN's US operations. Defined market segment focus, game genre and business models, and set-up operational team.

Director, Yahoo Games International

2004 - 2005

Lead strategic assessment of transforming Yahoo's international games business from flash based, asynchronous games to Freemium or F2P MMO games destination globally. Nearly completed an acquistion deal of Neople (now part of Nexon & was the developer of Dungeon and Fighter), to provide MMO publishing platform and game developers with global hit games.

Director, International Operations & Corporate Development

2000 - 2004

Began in Corp Dev team, then transitioned to Yahoo's international operations management. Defined operational performance goals across business units and regions, working with regional MDs to keep day to day businesses funded/moving in line with corporate goals. Reviewed discreet investment plans for strategic growth areas like mobile, China, India and Games businesses created and presented to management for investment or change in direction. Created process for first coordinated international annual budget planning based on performance datas.

Director, Global Corporate Development

2000 - 2002

As part of global investments and acquisitions team at Yahoo, reviewed and invested into Internet content and technologies companies like Hot Jobs, Rock Music and start-ups in streaming mobile content companies across U.S., Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere to help Yahoo's global presence become "sticky."

VP of Business Development

2002 - 2003

Working with a market leading language acquisition product development and business team, consisting of academic authorities of language acquisition from Stanford, Harvard and Oxbridge schools, was responsible for expanding B2C distribution partnerships internationally. Lead market distribution assessments and operational set-up for Global English Kid's online service in S.Korea, Japan and U.K. As, learning as an online, interactive service was early for consumer's to accept "value" in buying non-text book language service, so found partners to alleviate market education & distribution efforts in largest English education markets, resulting in profitable product line.

VP, Global Corporate Development

1998 - 2000

As part of the Global Corp Dev team, responsible for international expansion of DLJdirect's online operations in Asia. Lead strategic assessment and operational set-up of prioritized consumer investment markets. Executed joint venture deal and operational set-up in H.K. with Hutchison Whampoa, managing international product and technical teams in New York and Hong Kong. Also assisted international operations in U.K. and Japanese partnership with Sumitomo & Nomura.

Research Analyst

1996 - 1998

Worked with Merrill's private equity and tech banking teams to research IT market companies for investment or banking deal pitches.