Donghoe Gu serves as a team leader of corporate strategy office at SK On, mainly responsible for formulating strategies for battery raw materials sourcing and executing partnering and investment with promising suppliers. His roles include not only battery raw materials but various corporate-wide matters relevant to SK On’s growth strategies such as production, procurement and marketing. He oversees potential issues and provide feasible solutions to those matters. Especially, he is now actively involved in battery raw materials industry such as lithium, nickel and cobalt in terms of investment and procurement due to the exponential growth of SK On’s global operations that will require a significant amount of raw materials in the near future. Prior to joining in SK On, he has over 10 years of finance, strategy and business development experience in Oil & Gas industry at SK innovation, the largest oil & petrochemical company in Korea and parent company of SK On. He had focused on planning and executing SK innovation’s global growth strategy and re-shaping its portfolio as well. Then, he moved to serve as a Chief of Staff in SK Group, exclusively serving Executive Vice Chairman of SK Group, where he learned to deal with a variety of group-wide strategic matters in disciplined manner that required coordinating several stakeholders’ requests into one harmonious voice to be reflected in group’s strategic decision. After completing an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University as class of 2021, he started his journey at SK On, shouldered the responsibility with securing battery raw materials that are needed to charge SK On’s batteries.