Founders and advisors built for a harder housing problem.

His unique blend of technical, policy, and research expertise stems from his undergraduate degrees in English literature and computer science, as well as advanced studies in literature, policy, and public administration. His teaching experience includes serving as an officer and assistant professor at Korea Military Academy. Additionally, he conducted research on alternative financing and P2P lending for small business owners at the Korea SMEs and Startups Institute (KOSI), and on crowdfunding regulations in Korea at the Korea Development Institute (KDI). Prior to his current role, he worked as a systems administrator in the private sector. A graduate of UC Berkeley, he also studied at Harvard Kennedy School, where he is currently focusing on quantitative methods and migration studies. Furthermore, he co-founded the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Society (EIS) at HKS.

He studied political science and economics at Waseda University after a non-traditional educational path that included independent study in Australia and time in the United States, and he has also completed graduate education at Harvard Kennedy School. His background includes investment banking at SMBC Nikko Securities, where he worked on M&A and corporate finance, as well as founding and leading hachidori, Inc., an early Japanese conversational AI startup. Recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in Enterprise Technology, he brings startup, finance, and operator judgment shaped by company-building, exits, and angel investing.

He holds undergraduate degrees in computer science and design from Seoul National University and a Master in Design Engineering from Harvard. His background includes research work at Seoul National University's HCIL, engineering roles at NAVER and Dalpha, spatial-analysis work at Gensler, and his current work as a software developer at McKinsey. At Gensler, he built an urban-metrics pipeline using Arcpy and GeoPandas. Together, that gives us strong technical depth across product engineering, AI services, enterprise software, and geospatial market analysis.

She studied at the University of the Philippines and has also completed graduate education at Harvard Kennedy School. As a lawyer with immigration-law experience, she is more than capable of navigating legal and regulatory issues, while also helping us think carefully about compliance, policy risk, and the institutional realities of operating in the Philippine market.

Harvard Kennedy School professor and policy expert with prior industry experience from the early YouTube and Google era, bringing a strong combination of public-policy thinking, product judgment, and experimental rigor. His background in user testing, A/B testing, and evidence-based iteration is especially relevant to Roomie's early product design and market-learning process.

Sanghak Oh is an assistant professor of computer science at Hanyang University. He advises Roomie on security-sensitive product and infrastructure choices, helping the team think through platform safeguards, user data protection, and technical risks that affect trust in a housing marketplace.

Jaesung James Park is a senior research fellow at Korea SMEs & Startups Institute (KOSBI) with an extensive research career in the field. He advises Roomie on payments and transaction architecture, including the practical design choices needed for reliable marketplace flows, traceable transactions, and scalable financial operations.