Eric B. Kim

Eric B. Kim (born 1954) is a Korean-American businessman in the technology field. He currently (as of 2006) serves as a senior vice president at Intel, where he heads their Digital Home Group.

Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1954. At the age of 11, his family moved to Los Angeles, in the United States. He majored in physics at Harvey Mudd College, and went on to earn a master's in engineering at UCLA and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Kim worked for a number of companies in his early career. He was general manager of database products at software firm Lotus Development, President and CEO of Pilot Software, a part of business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, and a member of venture-capitalist firm [http://www.spencertrask.com Spencer Trask] Software Group.

Kim moved back to Korea to join Samsung Electronics in 1999, where during a tenure of five years he rose to become leader of their global marketing initiatives.

He moved back to the United States in 2004, when Intel hired him as their chief marketing officer. He later moved to heading their digital home initiative.

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*cite web|url=http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/kim.htm|title=Intel Executive Biography: Eric B. Kim|publisher=Intel Corporation|accessdate=2006-12-23
*cite news|url=http://business.goldsea.com/Kime/kime.html|last=Tang|first=George|title=Eric B. Kim: Marketing's Miracle Man|publisher=Goldsea Asian American Business|date=2005|accessdate=2006-12-23