Michael Kim

Michael is the visionary co-founder of Adgo who is on a mission to help online merchants and platforms grow their revenue using artificial intelligence.

He is an entrepreneur who started out his career as a researcher at Bell Laboratories before moving to Salomon Brothers in New York in the early 90’s. Since then, Michael has worked in various technology and trading leadership roles at global investment banks with a key focus on trading automation.

He was also the Managing Director of electronic trading for Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital where he helped automate institutional stock trading using algorithms and machine learning.

Michael brought that same trading automation technology into the world of commerce by replicating it for a self service SNS advertising. The product is what you now see as Adgo, the artificial intelligence powered growth engine for commerce.

Responsible for building the core team to execute on the company’s vision, Michael has raised multiple successful rounds of seed funding and has made investors and partners alike take notice. He has developed adtech partners with multiple social media network companies including getting the Facebook Marketing Partner (FMP) badge, and approvals for Twitter and LINE adtech API partnerships.

Under his leadership, Adgo now has 20 employees serving over 40 customers across three regional offices (Tokyo, Singapore and Jakarta).