Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon is the President of the Semiconductor Business of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Samsung’s Semiconductor Business consists of three major business divisions: Memory, System LSI and Storage.

Dr. Kwon first joined Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business in 1985, and has played a major role in Samsung Electronics' rapid advance in the semiconductor industry ever since. He led the team responsible for the development of the industry’s first 64M DRAM in the 1992, and was promoted to Vice President of Samsung’s Memory Device Technology unit in 1995.

In 1998, Dr. Kwon was appointed Senior Vice President and head of System LSI Division’s ASIC business, and in 2000 became Executive Vice President and head of LSI Technology. In January of 2004, Dr. Kwon was appointed President and General Manager of the System LSI Division. During his 10 years at the System LSI Division, Dr. Kwon gained special recognition for spearheading the display driver ICs (DDI) business of System LSI from initial development to worldwide No. 1 market share in 2004, and for also achieving top market share recently in navigational AP and MP3 SOC market segments. In May of 2008, Dr. Kwon was appointed as President of Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business.

Dr. Kwon has published numerous papers at such conferences and symposiums as ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, and IEDM. He has also contributed his expertise to many technical journals on semiconductor related topics.

Dr. Kwon has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.