Chunghee Woo

Managing Director Partner

Chung Hee Woo, a co-founder of InterVest, is an expert in finance and investment. He started his business career as a fixed income trader and analyst in Hanwha Securities from 1989 t0 1997. With his 8 years’ expertise, he joined Prime Plus Capital as a managing director and successfully managed Seoul Restructuring Fund with Rothschild Inc., especially counseling M&A and restructuring. He co-founded InterVest and has been operating the firm. In 2002, he had the leading role of launching Han-Sing Hi-tech Fund I which brought the success of IRR 31% and continued the launches of Han-Sing II and III respectively in 2007 and 2011. Hans-Sing Hi-tech Funds are the representative funds of InterVest which invited prominent domestic and Singapore based governments and private institutions as Limited Partners. He led the launch of Global Pharmaceutical Fund I of KRW 100 billion in 2013 with the significant support from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korea Development Bank. The fund brought a great success not only in financial terms but also in policy attainment of the ministry and has become a model of government sponsored venture fund. In 2017, he launched InterVest SEA Growth Fund I, the first Korea VC fund purely targeting SEA, with USD 101 million size. The Fund invited prominent SEA investors such as KWAP(Malaysian pension fund), Bangkok Bank(Thailand commercial bank) and Barito Pacific(Indonesia based Petro chemical company) with prominent Korea government institutions like KVIC. The SEA fund invested more than 11 SEA startups covering Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam along with 8 Korean startups who would like to expand their businesses into SEA. He has interests in semiconductor, advanced manufacturing and renewable energies in SEA, actively getting involved in investment activities. He graduated from Seoul National University with bachelor’s degree in Political Science and master in Public Administration.