49 Young-Hyun Jun

Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Samsung Electronics Industry: Technology / Electronics

Young-Hyun Jun leads Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor juggernaut, leveraging decades of technical precision to sharpen the tech giant’ s competitive edge. A KAIST doctorate graduate with a profound mastery of chip architecture, the engineer-turned-executive famously drove breakthroughs in memory technology before transforming Samsung SDI’ s battery business. Now leading the Device Solutions division, Jun combines deep scientific expertise with unyielding discipline to accelerate next-generation silicon design, advanced foundry operations and global AI hardware leadership. businesschief. com 41