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Early life and education
I was born in Seoul, South Korea and spent the first three months of my life in an orphanage. My biological parents couldn’t afford to raise me, so I was adopted by an American family and brought to the U.S. as an infant. We landed in Honolulu, then moved to Long Beach, and eventually settled in Seal Beach, California.
I was raised by a single mother who worked as a secretary and made $30,000 a year. She did everything she could to support me and my sister, Leslie, who I’m still very close with today. Watching my mom sacrifice so much shaped my work ethic early on. I studied relentlessly, worked seven days a week through school, and devoured every book I could find. I played football at Los Alamitos High School, where we won the CIF Division One championship my senior year.
My senior year in college, I lost both of my parents.
It was one of the hardest chapters of my life—but it also lit a fire in me to do something bigger.
I became the first in my family to go to college, earning a degree in Economics from UC Santa Barbara. From there, I pursued my MBA at NYU’s Stern School of Business, driven by a passion for real estate and the belief that it could be a platform for generational change.
Career
After business school, I joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, working in real estate investment banking. I was part of the team that led major IPOs like MGM Growth Properties ($1.2 billion) and Paramount Group ($2.6 billion)—the largest REIT IPO in U.S. history. We led financings for Avalon Bay, Digital Realty Trust, and MGM Resorts, helping them raise billions in capital. Earlier in my career, I also taught financial modeling to analysts at Goldman Sachs, Evercore, and Credit Suisse.
Today, I’m the CEO and founder of Prosper Group, a real estate development and investment firm based in Miami. We’re currently developing a 622-unit mixed-use condo-hotel on Water Street in downtown Tampa, in partnership with Arc Development, with a projected sellout of $600 million.
We have two development projects in Brickell Miami and a waterfront luxury condo project in North Bay Village. Previously Prosper advised on the $400 million Legacy Miami Worldcenter project—600,000 square feet of condos, hotel rooms, office space, and retail at the heart of downtown Miami.
At Prosper Group, we focus on acquiring irreplaceable land for condo developments in Florida and building a national portfolio of high-performing car washes.
Every project I take on reflects the values that shaped me—resilience, long-term vision, and a deep respect for the people and places that make these developments possible.
