Jay Eum is a co-founder and managing partner of GFT Ventures. He is an advisor at Tapas. He is a senior advisor at DTCP. He is a co-founder and managing director of TransLink Capital. He is also a board member at Singular and AirPlug. Most recently, he headed Samsung Ventures America. Before joining Samsung, he was an investment officer in the Silicon Valley office of Vertex Management, a global venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore. Before Vertex, he was senior director of business development at Dialpad Communications (acquired by Yahoo). He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a master's degree in biochemistry and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Seoul National University.