LG Electronics is replacing the head of its mobile phone business. Hwang Jeong-hwan has been named president and CEO of the LG Mobile Communications Company, while current president Juno Cho takes on a new role within LG’s parent company. Hwang has years of experience in R&D and was closely involved in developing one of LG’s first smartphones in 2009 as head of the CTO’s Multimedia R&D Lab, the company said.
In addition, LG named Park Il-pyung, head of LG’s Software Center, as Chief Technology Officer. He replaces Skott Ahn, who will take on a new position in LG Corp. Before joining LG, Park was CTO at Harman International and head of the Intelligent Computing Lab at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.
Han Chang-hee, most recently vice president of appliance marketing communications, has been tapped to lead LG’s worldwide marketing efforts as head of the Global Marketing Center. Brian Na, who led LG’s global marketing efforts for the past two years, will assume the role of president of LG’s Western Europe operations.LG also is establishing a B2B Company to oversee all aspects of business-to-business product sales including energy, information displays and vertical solutions. Kwon Soon-hwang, formerly head of LG’s Business Solutions Company and head of LG’s India operations, has been named president of the newly-formed B2B Company. In addition, the Convergence Business Development Center will be established to identify and initiate corporate-wide initiatives related to artificial intelligence, IoT solutions and device-to-device connectivity.
All appointments are effective as of 01 December and promotions from 01 January.
