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Cha Geun-sig is the CEO and chairman of i-Sens.

He is the co-founder of i-Sens, the leading domestic blood glucose monitoring company.

Cha Geun-sig was born on March 7, 1954.

He graduated from the Department of Chemistry at Korea University and obtained a master's degree from the same school's graduate school of chemistry. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan in the United States.

Later, he was appointed as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Kwangwoon University, where he taught students.

While working as a professor, he established i-Sens, a related venture company, in 2000 while conducting a national project on the development of biomaterial analysis devices.

He considers the continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, which can be attached to the body in patch form without the need for blood sampling, as the company's future growth engine and is focusing on investment and market expansion.