Company: VMCWF
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001827
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Company: Valuence Merger Corp. I
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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Yoon Woo has been our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since our inception. Mr. Woo is an investor
with a strong track record and experience in strategic acquisitions, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, and growth equity. Mr.
Woo is the Founder and CEO of Credian Partners, a private equity firm based in South Korea. During his 17-year investment career, Mr.
Woo has led over $4 billion in transactions and invested over $3 billion. Prior to founding Credian Partners, Mr. Woo was at Russell
Investments, where he advised the National Pension Service of Korea, the third-largest pension fund in the world by total assets, the
Bank of Korea, and Korea Investment Corporation, a sovereign wealth fund, among other clients on their global portfolio. Prior to Russell
Investments, Mr. Woo was a team head of the private equity arm of Mirae Asset Global Investments, one of the largest asset management
funds in South Korea, where he led various domestic and cross-border transactions. While at Mirae Asset Financial Group (“Mirae
Asset”), Mr. Woo led the acquisition of Acushnet Company, the parent company of Titleist and FootJoy, for $1.2 billion, representing
an internal rate of return of approximately 12.5%. Not only has this transaction won awards in South Korea, but it is also notable as
a key transaction that helped pave the way for the proliferation of private equity transactions in the country. Prior to Mirae Asset,
Mr. Woo was in the investment banking department of KB Kookmin Bank, the largest retail bank in Korea, where he led multiple transactions
with large Korean conglomerates. Mr. Woo received his LL.B. from Yonsei University where he was granted the Buphyun Scholarship and M.B.A.
from Cornell University.

Sungwoo
(Andrew) Hyung has been our Chief Financial Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since our inception. Mr. Hyung has
significant experience sourcing, structuring, and executing complex transactions across the sustainability and technology value chain.
Most recently, Mr. Hyung was at Nomura Greentech, a sustainable technology and infrastructure investment bank, responsible for executing
multiple M&A transactions and origination efforts within the energy transition and clean technology