Samsung Electronics on the 21st appointed President Roh Tae-Moon, acting head of the Device eXperience (DX; finished goods) division, as DX head in its executive reshuffle. Roh will serve as a representative director alongside Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun, head of the Device Solutions (DS; semiconductors) division. He will also remain head of the Mobile eXperience (MX) business.
Samsung Electronics on the day announced its "2026 regular executive appointments," involving a total of four people, including one promotion to president and three reassigned roles. Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun, representative director of Samsung Electronics, stepped down from his concurrent post as head of SAIT (formerly Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology). He will remain head of the DS division and the memory business unit.
Samsung Electronics President Park Hong-geun was newly appointed as head of SAIT. Park, who is scheduled to join on Jan. 1 next year, was appointed a professor at Harvard University in 1999 and is a global scholar who has led research across basic sciences and engineering, including chemistry, physics, and electronics, for about 25 years.
Roh had also been serving as acting head of the DX division since Apr. 1 after Representative Director and Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee passed away unexpectedly. In this reshuffle, Roh shed the acting title and was appointed representative director and president of Samsung Electronics and head of the DX division.
Also in this reshuffle, Executive Vice President Yoon Jang-hyun, representative director of Samsung Venture Investment, was promoted to president and Samsung Electronics DX division chief technology officer (CTO) and head of Samsung Research. Yoon, the CTO, holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in the United States and joined Samsung Electronics in 2003 as a principal researcher at the Wireless Business Division's SW Lab. At the end of last year, Yoon became representative director of Samsung Venture Investment and has led investments in promising technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, biotech, and semiconductors. Samsung Electronics said that Yoon, promoted to president, will create synergies between core businesses such as mobile, TVs, and home appliances and future technologies such as AI and robotics.
Regarding the latest executive appointments, Samsung Electronics said, "To continuously strengthen competitiveness and lead the market in key businesses such as MX and memory, the two division heads will maintain the system of concurrently serving as head of the MX business and head of the memory business." It added, "To accelerate research into next-generation semiconductor technologies and the transition to an AI Driven Company, we boldly appointed top experts in each field as head of SAIT and CTO of the DX division, laying the foundation to seize opportunities in the AI era."