Ahn Cheol-soo
Politician, Organization founder
1962 –
Who is Ahn Cheol-soo?
Ahn Cheol-soo, also known as Charles Ahn, is a South Korean businessman, politician, and former physician and professor. He founded AhnLab, Inc., an antivirus software company, in 1995. Until September 2012, Ahn was the dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University and also serves as chairman of the board of AhnLab and its Chief Learning Officer, and chairman of the board of Noritown Studio, originally an internal corporate venture of AhnLab, now operating as a separate entity.
On November 23, 2012 at 8:20 pm KST, Ahn announced that he would step down from presidential candidacy after Moon Jae-in and he failed to reach an agreement on unifying the candidate against Saenuri's Park Geun-hye.
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- Born
- Feb 26, 1962
Busan - Also known as
- Dr. Ahn Cheol-Soo
- Ethnicity
- Korean people
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- Doctor of Medicine, Seoul National University
Physiology - Master of Science, Seoul National University
Physiology - Doctorate, Seoul National University
Physiology - Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Busan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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