SK Telecom said on the 31st it jointly appointed Yu Kyung-sang, head of the Corp. Strategy Center, and Jeong Seok-geun, head of the Global Personal AI Agent (GPAA) division, as heads of the AI CIC, an internal independent corporations unit launched in September.
At the end of September, SK Telecom launched the "AI CIC (in-house corporations)" to pool artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and push business forward with speed. The decision to establish the AI CIC was based on the strategic judgment that, in the rapidly changing global AI industry environment, business synergy can be maximized only by establishing a structure in which "AI services (demand)" and "AI-based technologies (supply)" circulate virtuously.
New AI CIC head Yu Kyung-sang, formerly from Google headquarters, has overseen SK Group's AI strategy and the building of global partnerships, and has also been responsible for SK Telecom's strategy and new business development. New AI CIC head Jeong Seok-geun, formerly head of Naver Clova CIC, has led the development of AI-related technologies and global investments, as well as the build-out of core infrastructure such as platforms, since joining SK Telecom.
By establishing a "two-top" AI CIC system, SK Telecom plans to strengthen specialized expertise in AI strategy and the business institutional sector and create synergy. With the appointment of the AI CIC heads, the company will put "speed" as the top value in driving AI business and will finalize a specific CIC organizational restructuring soon. An SK Telecom official said, "By streamlining and minimizing reporting and approval lines and building an agile execution structure that moves with working-level organizations at the center, we will seize the market during AI's golden time."
CIC head Jeong Seok-geun said, "The launch of the AI CIC is not simply about changing the organization, but about building a system to focus on AI businesses that SK Telecom can do well," adding, "In the rapidly changing global AI industry environment, we will secure the company's own competitiveness."
CIC head Yu Kyung-sang said, "An 'elite AI organization' with expertise in each field will collaborate organically and respond more swiftly to changes in the market," adding, "We will prove that we can deliver tangible AI results that customers can feel."