More than a strategist.
Min Jeong Hong is a Strategic Planning & Corporate Strategy Leader whose career has been built at the rare intersection of public policy, global infrastructure, and U.S. healthcare. She is currently the AIC Strategic Planning Manager and Team Lead at Hiossen, leading national strategy and operations for one of the most respected dental implant education platforms in the country.
The short version.
Her career arc is unusual on purpose. Min Jeong began as a Foreign Service Officer with Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing the Republic of Korea in multilateral economic forums. She moved into Samsung C&T Corporation, where over twelve years she ran renewable-energy and smart-city programs, directed global marketing strategy, and ultimately led the company's $70M U.S.-based small modular reactor investment thesis on the Global Strategy Team. In 2024 she crossed into U.S. healthcare with Hiossen — first as DSO Strategy Manager, now leading AIC's national strategy.
What sets her apart isn't any single sector. It's the operating muscle she's built across three of them. She has run government affairs, $70M capital strategy, and field operations — and she does all three the same way: quietly, thoroughly, with the receipts to back it up.
"Strategy decks don't move markets. Operations do. The job is to build the bridge between them and walk across it every single day." — Min Jeong Hong · Working Philosophy
The three roles Min Jeong plays.
When an organization brings Min Jeong in, they get three operators in one:
- The Strategist — Frames the market, sizes the opportunity, builds the thesis. Twelve years inside Samsung's global strategy machine taught her how to model markets that don't exist yet.
- The Operator — Translates strategy into weekly scorecards, field rhythms, and a team that hits its numbers. The deck is never the deliverable. The result is.
- The Diplomat — Trained at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she navigates board rooms, partner networks, and cross-border conversations with the same patient rigor. Korean, English, and the universal language of showing up prepared.
Why this matters.
The healthcare and medical device sector is full of strategists who've never run a P&L, and operators who've never built a thesis. Min Jeong is one of the few executives who can do both — and who can do them in a regulated, multi-stakeholder, cross-cultural environment without dropping the ball on either side.
That's the asset on offer here. A leader who builds the strategy, runs the operations, and translates between every room she walks into.
The Hong method.
A lot of executives lead with charisma. Min Jeong leads with preparation. The principles below show up in every engagement she runs.
Receipts before rhetoric.
Every recommendation comes with the analysis behind it. She doesn't pitch ideas she can't defend with data. When she says "this will work," she has already pressure-tested the assumption.
Operations is strategy.
The plan is only as real as the weekly rhythm that executes it. She designs scorecards, cadences, and field operating models alongside the strategy — never after. The two are inseparable.
Cross-functional by default.
She has run programs that touched policy, finance, marketing, and field operations simultaneously. She knows every function speaks a different language, and her job is to translate.
Long game, every time.
Twelve years at Samsung C&T teaches you what short-term thinking costs. She builds for compounding outcomes — programs that get stronger in year three than year one.
Quiet rigor, loud results.
She doesn't perform busyness. The work is the work. Stakeholders learn quickly that the spreadsheets are right, the timelines are honest, and the commitments get kept.
The team carries the win.
As Team Lead at Hiossen, she's built strategy functions that scale beyond her own desk. Her measure of success is whether the function still runs cleanly when she's in a different room.
The longer game.
Healthcare and medical device organizations often hire strategists who deliver one polished plan and disappear. Min Jeong's track record is the opposite — she builds institutional muscle that outlasts her tenure. Samsung C&T's renewable energy strategy. The Foreign Ministry's multilateral economic positioning. Hiossen's DSO and AIC engagement frameworks. Each one still runs.
That's the difference between a consultant and an executive. One leaves a deck. The other leaves a function.
Across three sectors, one operating model.
Her expertise compounds across healthcare, energy, and infrastructure — but the underlying skill set is one consistent thing: building strategy functions that actually execute.
Sector fluency.
She engages as a full-time executive, fractional strategy lead, or strategic advisor — depending on the organization's stage and what the role calls for.
Core capabilities.
Twelve highlighted from a portfolio of 58 skills on her professional record. Every one has been used at scale, with budget responsibility, in a regulated or multi-stakeholder environment.
Geographic reach.
Based in the New York Metropolitan Area with full Hiossen field coverage across the United States. Native-fluent Korean and English; comfortable operating across U.S. ↔ Korea joint ventures, parent-subsidiary structures, and bilateral commercial relationships. Available for in-office, hybrid, or remote engagements with appropriate travel.
What Min Jeong has delivered.
An executive's real résumé is the outcomes they've shaped. A selection of programs Min Jeong has led or co-led across her career.
Led $70M U.S. SMR investment thesis.
As Senior Professional on Samsung C&T's Global Strategy Team, Min Jeong led the strategic case for a $70M U.S.-based Small Modular Reactor investment — modeling the market, framing the partnership structure, and presenting the thesis to enterprise leadership. The work bridged corporate finance, energy policy, and cross-border execution at a moment when the SMR market was still being defined.
Building national strategy and operations for AIC.
As Team Lead for AIC (the dental implant education and training arm of Hiossen), Min Jeong leads the national strategy function — setting market priorities, designing operational rhythms, and partnering with field and clinical leadership to execute. She inherited the role in August 2024 and has built a strategy operating model from the ground up.
Designed multi-location DSO engagement strategy.
As DSO Strategy Manager, she designed Hiossen's enterprise engagement framework for multi-location Dental Support Organizations — one of the most strategically complex customer segments in the implant category. The framework set the foundation for how Hiossen would approach a fundamentally different buying motion than the solo-practitioner channel.
Directed enterprise customer satisfaction globally.
As Manager of Global Business & Marketing Strategy, Min Jeong directed enterprise-wide customer satisfaction initiatives — building Key Account Management programs and corporate communications strategy across Samsung C&T's international portfolio. The work touched market expansion, brand positioning, and cross-functional execution simultaneously.
Contributed to large-scale renewable energy programs.
As Assistant Manager on the Renewable Energy & Urban Development team, Min Jeong contributed to Samsung C&T's large-scale renewable energy and smart city development portfolio — strategic planning, urban planning, and program coordination across infrastructure projects that took years to execute. Her urban design background from Seoul National University gave her unusual technical depth for the strategy seat.
Represented Korea in multilateral economic forums.
As Foreign Service Officer (Third Secretary rank), Min Jeong represented the Republic of Korea in multilateral economic settings — navigating governmental affairs, international relations, and the kind of diplomatic preparation that becomes invisible operating muscle later in life. The three years at MOFA shaped how she enters every room: knowing the brief, knowing the room, knowing the ask.
The pattern.
Six engagements, three sectors, one consistent thread: she takes on programs at the moment they need both strategy and execution, and she builds operating models that keep running after she hands them off. Whether the deliverable is a $70M investment thesis or a national field strategy, the method is the same — model the market, design the operations, ship the result.
Three sectors. One operating logic.
A career that reads unusual on a résumé but makes complete sense in person. Each move was deliberate — a step further into the intersection of strategy, operations, and cross-functional execution.
- Hiossen · AIC Strategic Planning Manager (Team Lead) — Aug 2024 to present · New Jersey, US · Leading national strategy and operations for AIC, Hiossen's clinical education arm.
- Hiossen · DSO Strategy Manager (Team Lead) — Jan 2024 to Aug 2024 · On-site · Built the enterprise engagement strategy for multi-location dental support organizations.
- Samsung C&T Corporation · Senior Professional, Global Strategy Team — Jan 2019 to Dec 2023 · Five years on the corporate strategy desk. Led the $70M SMR investment thesis.
- Samsung C&T Corporation · Manager, Global Business & Marketing Strategy — Apr 2015 to Dec 2018 · Directed enterprise customer satisfaction and KAM programs globally.
- Samsung C&T Corporation · Assistant Manager, Renewable Energy & Urban Development — May 2011 to Mar 2015 · Smart cities, large-scale renewables, urban planning at industrial scale.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea · Foreign Service Officer (Third Secretary) — Apr 2008 to Apr 2011 · Seoul, on-site · Multilateral economic representation for the Republic of Korea.
- Seoul Development Institute · Associate Researcher — Mar 2007 to Dec 2007 · Policy and urban development research.
- Seoul National University · Research Assistant — Mar 2005 to Feb 2007 · Sustainable urban planning research.
The through-line.
Min Jeong's career has moved from public sector → industrial conglomerate → U.S. healthcare — three radically different environments, one consistent operating discipline. The pattern isn't a sector specialist climbing one ladder. It's an operator who builds strategy functions wherever they're needed.
That's the move healthcare and medical device organizations get when they hire her: not a healthcare lifer, but an executive whose lens is bigger than the category and whose operating muscle is built for it.
Education & certifications.
A technical foundation in urban engineering, a graduate degree from Korea's most selective university, and the operating credential to prove she runs programs the way she models them.
Seoul National University
Master's Degree, Urban Design · 2005–2007
Korea's top-ranked university. Min Jeong's master's research focused on sustainable urban planning — a thesis that translated directly into her later work on Samsung C&T's smart city and renewable energy programs.
Hongik University
Bachelor of Science, Urban Engineering · Mar 2001 – Feb 2005
Graduation Award recipient. Technical undergraduate training that gave her the engineering literacy to operate credibly inside infrastructure and energy programs later in her career.
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional (PMP) · Issued June 2013
The discipline credential. PMP is the operating language of cross-functional execution — and Min Jeong has held it for over a decade.
Languages
Korean — Native
English — Professional working proficiency
Fluent operating across both languages in board rooms, partner negotiations, and field execution.
How an engagement unfolds.
Whether the conversation is about a full executive role, a fractional strategy engagement, or an advisory seat — here's the rhythm Min Jeong runs.
The listening pass.
First conversations are diagnostic, not pitch. She wants to understand the actual problem — not the way it gets summarized in a job description. Expect questions, not slides.
The thesis draft.
She returns with a written framing of the problem and a hypothesis for how to solve it. Always written. Always specific. Always inviting pushback.
The operating cadence.
The plan gets paired with a weekly rhythm — scorecards, syncs, decision rights. Strategy without cadence is decoration; she designs them together from day one.
The field test.
Pilot in market. Whatever the program — a new customer segment, an investment thesis, a field operating model — it gets tested with real stakeholders before it scales.
The scale build.
What worked gets institutionalized. What didn't gets rebuilt. The function starts running on its own rhythm — not on her calendar.
The handoff.
By the second quarter, the operating model runs without her in the room every day. That's the deliverable. A function that compounds — not a leader who can't be replaced.
The standing relationship.
The best engagements don't end. They evolve. Once she's built something inside an organization, the relationship continues as advisor, partner, or future seat. That's the long game.
A note on engagement structures.
Min Jeong is open to full-time executive roles in healthcare, dental, and medical device organizations across the New York / New Jersey corridor and remote-with-travel arrangements nationally. Fractional and advisory engagements are also possible for the right strategic fit. Compensation conversations happen openly once mutual fit is clear — not before.
In their words.
An executive is only as good as the people who'd recommend them. Min Jeong's references span three sectors, two countries, and fifteen years of relationships.
References available on request.
Out of respect for current and former colleagues, Min Jeong does not publish testimonials on a public portal. Direct references — including senior leadership from Hiossen, Samsung C&T Corporation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea — are available upon request once an opportunity reaches mutual interest.
References will speak to the same handful of qualities consistently: the rigor of her analysis, the integrity of her commitments, and the calm that shows up when programs get hard.
"The best leaders don't ask you to take their word for it. They give you the names of the people who already have." — On the value of real references
That's confidence in your work showing up as transparency.
When Min Jeong isn't working.
Plenty of executives hide behind a LinkedIn headline. Min Jeong is happy to let people see the rest — the version of her that shows up at home, on a hiking trail, or at a long dinner with friends.
Home base
Based in the New York / New Jersey metro area with her family. The U.S. became home after the move from Korea, and the New York corridor has been the family's center of gravity ever since.
Family first
Min Jeong is married and a present, deeply involved mother. The same operating discipline that runs her career runs the calendar at home — and family commitments are non-negotiable.
Two cultures, one identity
A career that began in Seoul and continues in New York means she moves naturally across both cultures. She brings that fluency to every cross-border conversation she sits in.
Quiet by design
She doesn't perform on social media. The signal lives in the work, the relationships, and the people who would vouch for her by name. That's intentional.
"Do the work. Keep the receipts. The right people will know." — Working Philosophy
Why this shows up at work.
The same traits that make Min Jeong a present family member make her a reliable colleague: she shows up prepared, she keeps her commitments, and she doesn't disappear when things get hard. That's a quality you can't fake. Either you have it or you don't.
Message Min Jeong.
This is the direct line. A clean text thread, tied to this portal. Min Jeong prefers text over phone for first-touch conversations — it gives both sides a written record and respects your time.
What happens next.
Tap "Send" and your phone's messaging app opens with everything pre-filled — your name, the subject, and your question. Just send from your messaging app to fire it off. Response: same-day during business hours. The conversation stays in your phone's text thread, giving both sides a clean record.
Let's talk.
Whether the conversation is about an executive role, an advisory engagement, or simply a connection worth making — Min Jeong is reachable. Pick the channel that fits.
Save Min Jeong's contact.
One tap saves her contact card to your phone — so when the right opportunity comes across your desk, or you meet someone she should know, you don't have to search.
For recruiters and search firms.
Min Jeong is actively considering healthcare, dental, and medical device executive opportunities in the New York / New Jersey corridor and remote-with-travel arrangements nationally. The strongest fits combine strategy and operations responsibility, in organizations that take both seriously.
For first conversations: a short email outlining the organization, the role, and the strategic context gets the fastest response.
One final note.
If you got this portal because someone shared it with you, that someone thinks you should know Min Jeong. Don't let that intro go cold. Send a quick email today — even just "I was referred by ___, would love 15 minutes." That email might be the most valuable connection you make this quarter.