Sangwhun Yu, Ph.D., CPA
Founder & Managing Partner
Former PwC Samil | Kookmin Bank | Daewoo Securities (IB)
CFO experience across public companies,
PE-backed firms and growth-stage businesses
Yonsei University (B.A., M.A.)
Dr. Sangwhun Yu advises on critical financial and strategic decisions where outcomes carry long-term consequences.
Dr. Sangwhun Yu is a Certified Public Accountant and a capital markets and corporate
finance specialist with over two decades of experience across accounting, tax, capital
markets, corporate finance, and executive leadership.
He brings a rare combination of academic rigor and real-world execution across complex financial environments.
He earned both his B.A. and M.A. in Business Administration from Yonsei University (Full Academic Scholarship for four years), and later completed a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting) at Chung-Ang University.
He began his career at Samil PwC in Assurance and Transaction Services (TS/FAS), advising multinational and domestic corporations across audit, tax, and M&A-related financial advisory engagements.
He subsequently served at Kookmin Bank, a leading commercial bank in Korea, in Risk Management and the IFRS Task Force Team (revenue recognition lead during IFRS adoption), and at Daewoo Securities (now Mirae Asset Securities) in Investment Banking (M&A division) and Investment Review, covering ECM, DCM, structured finance submissions, and capital markets assessments.
His early career uniquely spans core divisions of Korea’s leading accounting firm, commercial bank, and securities firm.
He has worked across organizations of varying scale and complexity — from large listed corporate groups with revenues exceeding KRW 1 trillion, to mid-sized enterprises, PE-backed companies, and early-stage ventures — gaining firsthand insight into the structural differences and decision dynamics unique to each stage of growth.
He has served as CFO and Group CFO across various industries at listed corporate groups and PE-backed companies, where he led key financial and governance initiatives including.
Our work typically includes:
IPO readiness and capital markets execution
capital raising and refinancing initiatives
investment and transaction advisory
group-level financial stabilization and restructuring initiatives
complex accounting, tax, and regulatory issue resolution
governance and board-level matters
internal control framework establishment and business process enhancement
He conducts research on IFRS adoption and financial reporting quality and received the Best Paper Award from the Korean International Accounting Association. He also teaches corporate valuation and accounting-related courses at the university level.
He brings institutional discipline to entrepreneurial environments and structural clarity to complex corporate settings.
Dr. Sangwhun Yu currently serves as an External CFO, supporting CEOs, boards, and key investors in designing and executing decision structures at critical moments.
