Jay Chong

Jay is a global business leader with accomplishments in Venture Capital, M&A, Sales/Marketing, Business Development, and Strategy/Operations with prior roles at Samsung, Intel, SK Group, and Infineon.

Before joining Millennium, Jay led the e-Mobility Group at SK Group, driving investments and M&As on electrification and alternative energies. He led the investment in Volta Charging (VLTA) and advised on a $300Mjoint venture with SunRun. He also supported Executive Vice Chairman Chey, the younger brother of Chairman Chey, overseeing the businesses of the key SK companies such as SK Hynix, SK Telecom, SK Innovation, SK Holdings, and SK On, an EV battery company.

Prior to SK Jay was a vice president & managing director at Samsung Ventures, leading investments in e-Mobility, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data center IT infrastructure, and semiconductors. His key investments include SolidFire (scale-out storage, acquired by NetApp), SeaMicro (ARM-based micro-server, acquired by AMD), PureStorage (all-flash array storage), Tilera (multi-core processor, acquired by Mellanox), YellowBrick (data warehouse for distributed cloud), CNEX Labs (NVMe PCIe SSD controller), Kazan Networks (NVMe over Fabric, acquired by Western Digital), Daintree Networks (LED lighting control/BMS, acquired by GE), Quanergy (solid-state LiDAR for Autonomous Driving/Robotics, QNGY, de-SPACing), and Oculus (4D radar for autonomous driving/robotics, acquired by Ambarella).