Thomas KO

   

release time：2017-03-09 17:29:42  view count：40095  source：Boao Forum for Asia

Vice President

Samsung Pay

Mobile Communications Business
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Thomas Ko joined Samsung Electronics in May 2015 as a global co-GM of Samsung Pay to lead this strategic and important initiative forward. He sets the mobile commerce strategies, creates various mobile commerce products and services to serve clients worldwide, and oversees all the countries’ mobile commerce businesses and partnerships to create global success.
Before joining Samsung, Thomas had his own venture, NAMU Systems which has won ‘Best of Show’ by Finovate in 2015. Its solution focuses on a customer centric banking system using emotions and social relationship.

Before NAMU, Thomas was the global head of mobile banking leading Citi to become the best corporate mobile bank in the world for the last 3 years by Global Finance. One of his flagship product, CitiDirect BE Mobile has processed over $400BN in in 2014 and has won the prestigious best enterprise mobile solution of the world given by GSMA. It is considered as by far the biggest and the largest global mobile solution. He also had a very successful career with KPMG and Sybase, now a part of SAP.

He is considered as one of the brightest minds in the FinTech industry with a banking experience and a highly sought speaker. He was educated in University of Virginia and Stanford. He is a Korean-American and fluent in Korean, English as well as Spanish.