SK AX said on the 30th that it promoted and appointed Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Kim Wan-jong as the new president.
The personnel move comes as artificial intelligence transformation (AX) spreads across industries and delivering tangible results for corporations has emerged as a core task, with Kim evaluated as the right person to lead it.
President Kim Wan-jong will oversee the expansion of AX-based high value-added business models and the creation of customer outcomes in key industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, finance, energy, and services.
Kim has led groupwide digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation at SK C&C (now SK AX). Since 2020, while leading the cloud institutional sector, he reorganized SK Group and key industry infrastructure around a cloud-centered structure and established an industrial platform system where AI actually operates. Since 2023, as CCO, he has applied an AX platform integrating AI, cloud, and data to industrial sites, driving visible results such as productivity gains, expense reduction, and quality advancement.
With the latest presidential appointment, SK AX plans to advance its AX innovation system that combines AI technology with industry-specific execution models and strengthen its role in shifting the business structures and revenue models of major domestic industries to an AX-centered approach.
President Kim Wan-jong said, "Based on an AX innovation system that combines an AI platform with industry-specific execution models, SK AX will lead efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of domestic corporations," adding, "We will accelerate the spread of AX on the strength of proven results in diverse industrial fields."