Haegwan Kim
Founder And CEO at Sanka
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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SeniorHaegwan Kim is a trilingual founder and operator with 15 years of experience building high-performance teams and driving measurable P&L growth across startups and Fortune 500 partners. He has led go-to-market, marketing, product, and operations roles across APAC—launching Coinbase in Japan, running country growth at Revolut, and steering brand and acquisition at Square. As founder and CEO of Sanka and previously Babel, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on execution to streamline complex supply chains and help international companies scale in Japan. Known for data-driven growth strategies, he has repeatedly translated analytics into customer acquisition and revenue expansion for clients like New Balance, Sony, and Nestle. Based in Tokyo, he blends regional market fluency in English, Japanese, and Korean with a comfort operating between startup speed and enterprise partnership. Less obvious: he pairs strategic vision with deep cross-functional experience from product management to partnerships, enabling rapid end-to-end launches in new markets.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese, Korean
Stackoverflow
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3questions
Github Skills (36)
bitcoin10
trading9
cryptography9
api9
exchange9
cryptocurrency9
crypto8
p2p8
ethereum8
staging8
cryptocurrencies7
trading-bot7
php7
binance7
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dao-book/dao-book
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
A book about DAOs
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
ethereumdaos
haegwan/haegwan.github.io
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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