Who We Are

To Improve the Quality of Life for Everyone
Top international scholars and industry leaders come together at BG PHARMACEUTICAL with their breadth of knowledge, expertise, and key insights.
BG PHARMACEUTICAL is joined by experts in business strategy, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry to comprise its executive leadership team.
BG PHARMACEUTICAL research and development are led by prominent medical doctors and scientists from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Korea University and Yonsei Severance Hospital.
  • Young Joon Kim Chairman, Founder
    Mr. Young Joon Kim is the founder and visionary who has served as CEO of BG PHARMACEUTICAL since its inception in 2006 until the end of 2018. Mr. Kim has lead the discovery and development efforts for the proprietary technology, SPM™. With the ambition to provide life-improving treatments for people suffering with chronic skin diseases, Mr. Kim has spearheaded the skin cell activator research at the Singapore National University Hospital with a team of stem cell and biotechnology scientists. Prior to BG PHARMACEUTICAL, Mr. Kim served as CEO at D2K and KS Marketing.
  • David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
    - Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital(MGH)Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School
    - Director of the MGH Cutaneous Biology Research Center
    - Director of the Melanoma Center at MGH
    - Professor of Dermatology and of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
  • George F. Murphy, M.D.
    - Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
    - Director of the Program in Dermatopathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital
    - Program Director of the Harvard Combined Fellowship in Dermatopathology
    - Co-leader of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute(HSCI)Skin Program
  • [Former]Dr. Martin C. Mihm Jr.
    - Co-Chairman of World Health Organization(WHO)
    - Director, Mihm Cutaneous Pathology Consultative Service
    - Director, Melanoma Program at Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    - Associate Director, Center for Melanoma Oncology, Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center
  • Anthony J. Sinskey Ph.D.
    - Faculty Director, M.I.T Center for Biomedical Innovation(CBI)
    - Professor of Microbiology, M.I.T
    - Co-founder of Genzyme Corporation, Natural Pharmaceuticals, Metabolix, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
    - Co-developer of Commercial hyaluronic acid
  • Chanwha Kim Ph.D.
    - Honorary professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Korea University
    - Ph.D. in Applied Biological Sciences, M.I.T
    - Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, former director of XGen Corporation
    - Research Director, BIOCOZ GLOBAL Corporate Research Institute
  • Kevin L. Ohashi Ph.D.
    - Founder of Pond Capital, LLC., Cayenne Medical, nContact, and Tauten Sports
    - Directing roles at MicroVascular Tissues, Tauten, and OC 10
    - Ph.D. Minor in Materials Science Engineering, Stanford
    - Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
  • Muruga Vadivale M.D.
    - Head of Medical Affairs and Regulatory, India
    - 25 years pharma industry experience in Medical Affairs, Regulatory and Clinical Trials
    - Asia Regional Head for dengue vaccine
    - Consultant, MS Pharma and Medical Affairs Sdn Bhd.
  • Michael Richard Pompeo
    - 70th United States Secretary of State
    - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA)
    - Congressman from Kansas’ 4th District
    - Harvard Law School graduate, editor of the Harvard Law Review
  • Sung Hyun “Andrew” Kim
    - Assistant Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the Korea Mission Center
    - Non-resident Fellow with the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
    - Chief of CIA Station in 3 major East Asian cities
    - Visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford
  • Hiroshige Hayashi, Ph.D.
    - Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Universityr
    - Founder and Co-Managing Director at Korea-Japan Marketing Forum
    - Product and Marketing Manager at Pfizer
    - Consumer Product Marketing Director at Johnson & Johnson
  • Young-Joon Mok
    - Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea
    - Chair professor at Korea University
    - Judge of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at Hague
    - Chair of the Committee for Social Contribution at Kim & Chang Law Firm