Soo Kang
Soo Kang brings over 25-years global management experience leading operations from New York, Beijing, Seoul and Jakarta for internationally recognized media, education, and retail service brands, including established multinationals, startups and growth ventures.
At Bloomberg Media, a division of Bloomberg LP, Soo was responsible for global distribution and partnerships where she managed a portfolio of news, content, and video assets across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
At Pearson PLC, Soo served in a range of senior executive roles and was a member of the Global Leadership Team. Based in the United States, Korea and China, Soo led new game-based learning technologies at Pearson Technology, next-generation teacher-facing tools at the Pearson Foundation, oversaw Pearson B2G, B2B, and retail education businesses with full P&L responsibility in East, South and Southeast Asia, and served as CEO of the second largest provider of English-language training in China with 263 owned and franchised centers in 124 cities headquartered from Beijing.
Prior to Pearson, Soo led international operations for Hearst Publications and Time, Inc., focusing on Asia. At Time and Hearst, she managed diversified portfolios of media businesses and launched new properties and joint ventures including print, online, and mobile properties in Korea, China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines. She was a pathbreaker in opening the market in China to western media brands, successfully lobbying the PRC government for first market access and creating through joint venture what is today the largest non-State-owned media company in China, Trends Media.
In addition to her big company experience, Soo is an experienced startup entrepreneur. She was the principal founder of two privately-financed international businesses--DMZ Media, a licensee of Western magazine brands commercialized in South Korea, and LuckyG Media, a global publisher of early learning software for smartphones and tablets.
At Bloomberg Media, a division of Bloomberg LP, Soo was responsible for global distribution and partnerships where she managed a portfolio of news, content, and video assets across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
At Pearson PLC, Soo served in a range of senior executive roles and was a member of the Global Leadership Team. Based in the United States, Korea and China, Soo led new game-based learning technologies at Pearson Technology, next-generation teacher-facing tools at the Pearson Foundation, oversaw Pearson B2G, B2B, and retail education businesses with full P&L responsibility in East, South and Southeast Asia, and served as CEO of the second largest provider of English-language training in China with 263 owned and franchised centers in 124 cities headquartered from Beijing.
Prior to Pearson, Soo led international operations for Hearst Publications and Time, Inc., focusing on Asia. At Time and Hearst, she managed diversified portfolios of media businesses and launched new properties and joint ventures including print, online, and mobile properties in Korea, China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines. She was a pathbreaker in opening the market in China to western media brands, successfully lobbying the PRC government for first market access and creating through joint venture what is today the largest non-State-owned media company in China, Trends Media.
In addition to her big company experience, Soo is an experienced startup entrepreneur. She was the principal founder of two privately-financed international businesses--DMZ Media, a licensee of Western magazine brands commercialized in South Korea, and LuckyG Media, a global publisher of early learning software for smartphones and tablets.