Dr. Choi is the Founder of StratWays Group, a strategic advisory firm that supports investors and companies with strategy, market expansion, and business development — particularly in the defense industry, dual-use technologies, and security-adjacent sectors. He has advised PE and VC firms on investment thesis development, opportunity evaluation, and strategic positioning, and supported commercial technology companies expanding into South Korea’s defense, civil security, and public-sector markets. He has also provided geopolitical risk insights to a global investment bank and several multinational corporations during periods of heightened regional tension.

Dr. Choi previously served as the internal subject-matter expert on defense and national security at a Korean private equity firm, where he led efforts to establish a new investment and strategic advisory practice focused on dual-use innovation. He played a key role in shaping the firm’s early thesis, identifying target sectors, and building a strategic network across industry and institutional partners.

With over 15 years of experience in political-military affairs, international security, and strategy design, Dr. Choi served as an international relations expert at the United Nations Command / ROK–US Combined Forces Command, where he contributed to strategic initiatives, operational planning, and policy formulation. At the Council on Foreign Relations and the RAND Corporation, he led research projects focused on evolving security dynamics and alliance management.

Dr. Choi frequently contributes to high-level dialogues on deterrence, alliance management, and regional security. His commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, NPR, Der Spiegel, and JoongAng Ilbo.

He holds a PhD in War and Strategy from King’s College London, an MA in International Cooperation from Seoul National University, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Cho’s expertise is in disruptive technologies. Mr. Cho works as a Venture Capitalist at Atinum Investment, one of the leading venture capital investment houses in the Republic of Korea, where his investment focuses on start-ups working with artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and advanced robotics.

Prior to his Venture Capitalist career, Mr. Cho was a strategy consultant at A.T. Kearney, where he provided business consultation to a number of global leading ICT service and manufacturing companies. Previously, he was an R&D engineer at Samsung Electronics, designing radio frequency circuits for the Galaxy S series, the smartphone manufacturer’s flagship lineup. Mr. Cho has served his military duty as an Interpretation Officer at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.

Mr. Cho holds a BS in electrical engineering and is an ML candidate in intellectual property law, both at Seoul National University.