Management

Bom Suk Kim founded our company and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since May 2010. Mr. Kim attended Harvard University, earning a A.B. degree in Government. We believe Mr. Kim is qualified to serve as a member of our board because of his extensive experience building and leading our business and his insight into our technology as our Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Gaurav Anand has served as our Chief Financial Officer since December 2020 and previously served as our Chief Operating Officer from January 2019 to December 2020. Mr. Anand previously served as the Chief of Staff to our CEO from January 2017 to December 2018 and our Chief Financial Officer of Global eCommerce from January 2017 to December 2017. Prior to joining Coupang, Mr. Anand served as Vice President of Finance at Myntra, a fashion subsidiary of Flipkart, from November 2014 to December 2016. Mr. Anand also previously worked at Amazon from 2007 to 2014, holding various Finance positions across North America retail, International retail, AWS business, and payments business.

Hanseung Kang has served as our Representative Director of Business Management since November 2020. Prior to joining Coupang, Mr. Kang worked as an attorney at Kim & Chang from February 2013 to November 2020, where his practice focused on crisis management, communication strategy, and government affairs. From August 2011 to February 2013, Mr. Kang served as the Secretary to the President of the Republic of Korea for Legal Affairs. During the prior eighteen years, he served in the Korean judiciary, first as a judge at district courts and later as a presiding judge in the appellate court. Mr. Kang has also served as a Special Counselor to the Legislation and Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, and as the Counselor for the Judicial Affairs at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the U.S. Mr. Kang received his LL.B. from Korea University and attended the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea.

Harold Rogers has served as our General Counsel since December 2021 and as our Chief Administrative Officer since January 2020. Prior to joining Coupang, Mr. Rogers served as Executive Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Millicom, a global telecommunications company, from August 2016 to December 2019. He also was previously a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP from January 2013 to July 2016 and an associate attorney from September 2006 to December 2012. He clerked for the Honorable Thomas B. Griffith on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 2005 to 2006. Mr. Rogers holds a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

TJ Kim has served as our Vice President of Digital Customer Experience since April 2023. Previously, Mr. Kim served as our Vice President of Product Management and UX, leading the Product, Analytics, and UX teams for Coupang’s core ecommerce business from April 2022 to April 2023. He served as our Senior Director of Product Management from April 2018 to April 2022 and our Director of Product Management from September 2014 to April 2018. Prior to joining Coupang, Mr. Kim worked at Marketo (now part of Adobe), Symantec, and Oracle, holding various product, strategy, and finance roles. Mr. Kim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.