He serves as the chairman of the board but is not the CEO.
Park Hyo-dae was born on March 20, 1954, in Busan.
He graduated from Busan Dong-A High School and Seoul National University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He earned a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
After graduating from college, he joined Samsung Group and held various positions such as Head of the Computer Application Research Lab at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Head of the CAE Center at Samsung Group, Head of the Business Division and Director of the Information Technology Research Institute at Samsung SDS.
He left Samsung in 1994 and took over his father's business, managing it for four years.
In 1998, he founded a company called Sara Information. In February 1999, he became the CEO of Snet Systems, which was established by spinning off from Samsung Electronics' Network Division.
He has since grown Snet Systems into a leading mid-sized company in the IT infrastructure and services sector in Korea, specializing in SI (System Integration), NI (Network Integration), hardware and software maintenance, among other areas.
He is also focusing on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into existing IT infrastructure and services.