Eugene Yun is CEO and Managing Partner of Eos Investment Partners, an investment firm based in Seoul, Korea, which he founded in 2008. Eugene has over 25 years of experience in international finance. His workplace is global and includes Asia (NE, SE, and South), Middle East (with special focus on the GCC countries), North America, Europe and Africa. He maintains an extensive network of friends, colleagues and partners in key business centers around the world, allowing his company Eos to undertake complex and intricate cross-border financial deals and investment projects.
Eugene began his professional career as an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1990, he relocated to Korea to serve as the senior economist and editorial writer for Maeil Kyungje Shinmoon, the nation’s premier financial journal. In 1994, Eugene began work in international finance first as Asia regional economist and Korea research head for Schroder Securities. Subsequently, he took up the post of CEO and country head of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, the investment banking arm of Deutsche Bank group.
The financial crisis of 1997/8 brought about tumultuous changes to the economic landscape in Asia. Eugene formed a joint venture with George Soros, the international financier, which focused on private equity opportunities. Except for a period between 2001 to 2007, (when he returned to academia to serve as professor of international business in the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha University) Eugene has been working in the private equity space as investor, project developer, entrepreneur, consultant and advisor.
Eugene seeks to practice impact investment whenever possible. He believes investments should try to do more than simply produce financial returns. Impact investment led his company Eos to form the Korea GCC Economic Cooperation Fund, a program designed to create synergies by taking capital, business knowhow, technology and product from Korea and connecting these elements with economic growth, industrialization, local capital and market knowledge in the Gulf region.
Eugene received his elementary education in Nigeria (Emotan School) and Ethiopia (Good Shepherd School) and secondary education in England (Haberdashers’ Aske’s School). He studied undergraduate economics at Yonsei University in Korea. His PhD in economics is from the University of Minnesota.
