Jeong Hun Kim (Korean: 김종훈; born August 13, 1960) is a South Korean-born American academic, businessman, and entrepreneur in the technology industry.

Having won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, Kim earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science in three years.

But upon graduation, he determined that it was time to repay his adopted country for the opportunities it had given him, so he left Digitus to join the U.S. Navy, where he served as a nuclear submarine officer (1982-1989).

However, unable to obtain financing for his start-up, he signed on as a contract engineer for AlliedSignal at the Naval Research Laboratory (1990-1993), where he became aware of the asynchronous transfer technology used to link different modes of electronic communication.

For one, the military needed to link its divergent systems of voice, video, and data, especially from remote areas lacking communications infrastructure.

[8] In 1999, Kim co-founded Taconic Capital Advisors LLC, an event-driven and multi-strategy hedge fund firm, along with Kenneth Brody and Frank Brosens.

[10] While teaching, Kim assembled a group of investors to purchase Cibernet, a provider of cellular billing exchange services, and served as chairman from March 2003 until July 2005.

[17] He was previously on the boards of Schneider Electric SA (France),[18] McLeodUSA,[19] MTI MicroFuel Cells,[20] In-Q-Tel,[21] Bankinter Foundation of Innovation (Spain),[21] NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council,[22] Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, among many others.