Penta is a next-generation platform for both public and private blockchain projects, designed to be a premier platform for transferring value and operating high-performance DApps. STAYGE and Penta share business networks and investors in Korea and China and collaborate on joint marketing and projects.

DSP Media has produced many famous K-pop artists and provided record production and management since 1991. KARD, which is gaining popularity globally mainly in Latin America, is using the solution of STAYGE to operate the official website and the fan community. STAYGE will continue to expand the scope of business cooperation with DSP Media in the future.

Deblock is a VC firm and an accelerator jointly founded by ICON, the leading Korean blockchain protocol and AD4th Insight, a leading blockchain based marketing company. Deblock’s mission is to accelerate the global digital economy by discovering and incubating the entrepreneurs with the great talent. They invest in and accelerate various projects mainly running on the ICON ecosystem and the other protocols. STAYGE is the first portfolio project of Deblock.

AD4th Insight is a blockchain AdTech Company that leads the blockchain advertising ecosystem. STAYGE is working with AD4th to effectively market the blockchain project, and STAYGE is also cooperating with weBloc, the AD4th’s blockchain project, for the advertising business within the STAYGE platform.

Nomad Connection specializes in the development FinTech solutions based on blockchain and machine learning technology. Nomad Connection provides the enterprise-level blockchain solution and the high-performance machine learning data analysis platform for internal analysis to the financial sector. STAYGE is partnered with Nomad Connection to develop the stable blockchain based service.

ICON is a decentralized network of blockchain communities. In the ICON world, anyone can create a new blockchain project, and a newly created project will connect with other projects to create another world. STAYGE is a project based on the ICON platform and cooperates with ICON for the technical and marketing support.

Aaron Shin

DS Kim 

POSTECH Angel Club is an investment club that aims to discover the promising startup companies based on innovative technology and novel ideas. The POSTECH Angel Club invests in innovative startup companies including STAYGE and supports them to succeed in their businesses and to attract the subsequent investments.

Jinwoo Shin

Hyun Oh 

About

• STAYGE Labs / Accounting Manager
• Contextlogic Korea / Office Manager
• Mirae N Educare / Assistant Manager
• Cheongdam Learning / Assistant Manager

About

Eileen has been working in Management Support Team for 9 years. She worked at the educational companies, and startup accounting team previously. Eileen obtained a computerized accounting and taxation business certificate.

Kevin Han

• STAYGE Labs / Graphic Designer
• Bluefi / Graphic Designer (section chief)
• Manapotion / Graphic Designer (section chief)
• Nexon mobile / Graphic Designer
• Entelligent /Graphic Designer

About

Kevin Han is a graphic designer at STAYGE Labs. He graduated from Sejong university majoring in cartoon & animation. From 2004 to 2007 He started his career as a graphic designer in Korea’s top game company Nexon Mobile. He was also a section chief in mobile game company Manapotion and Bluefi. He has a lot of experience completing projects and has a lot of knowledge about applications and web design. He is currently in charge of web design at STAYGE Labs.

• STAYGE Labs / Software Engineer
• Tiein Communications / Software Engineer
• Kyung Hee University / Computer Engineering

About

Jaybe Yun is a professional software engineer. From high school to college he majored in computer game development and CE. He is an expert on client-side programmings such as mobile application programming and Web applications. He has a high understanding about implementing UI/UX design. He has finished many projects with high quality.

• STAYGE Labs / Software Engineer

• Kakao Corp. / Android Developer

• POSTECH / B.S. in CSE

About

Dennis majored in Computer science in POSTECH, and interested in front-end facing to user directly. He has a deep understandings in various UI/UX development while he developed the map application of ‘Kakao’, offering many services such as kakaotalk which is the top-used messenger in South Korea, game, commerce, and mobile contents.

• STAYGE Labs / Software developer
• D:CODE / Software developer
• BMW group / Logistics service
• Sugar ltd. / CEO
• United Nations Development Program / Intern

About

Stanislav Ni is a professional software engineer and ex-entrepreneur. Made a startup with his friends in Uzbekistan. Worked on a server-side and more than 2 years work on a client-side. Created a lot of successful projects with a wide audience. He had his own business and has a deep understanding about client wishes.

• STAYGE Labs / Head of Global Business Development
• BISECU INC / Global Marketing Manager
• COOLJAMM Company / Global Marketing Manager
• Busking TV CO., LTD / Marketing manager
• YSTEEL (US Office) / International Sales Manager
• University of Nevada Las Vegas / Science of Hotel Management

About

Nick Yang majored in Science of Hotel Management in University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. He has been working in Music & IT industry for 4 years including music platform service, music producing app, and IOT development as a global marketing and sales manager. He has been projected crowdfunding campaigns, initiated and managed various SNS channels, expended B2B sales and acquired contracts with major partners.

• STAYGE One / Board of Director
• Nomad Connection / Co-founder & CEO (Participated in the ICON Project)
• Mpeon Asia / Operation Team Leader
• Penta Security Systems / Software Engineer
• POSTECH / B.S. in CSE

About

Thomas Jeon is the Board of Director of STAYGE One. Thomas Jeon is the Co-founder & CEO of Nomad Connection and participated in the ICON Project. Thomas was the Operation Team Leader in Mpeon Asia and Software Engineer in Penta Security Systems. He graduated and obtained B.S. from POSTECH for a major of CSE.

• STAYGE One / Co-founder & CBDO
• STAYGE Labs / Industry Advisor
• All Around Playerz (AAP) / Co-founder & CEO
• Rapper & Producer (Chief producer of KARD, a co-ed K-Pop artist group)

About

NASSUN is a producer that has worked with famous female singer (Lee hyo-ri, Hyuna) and Hanryu girl and boygroup(KARA, Verygood, ACE, uptension). And he worked with famous K-pop stars like KARD, who is popular in Europe, USA, South America. He is Co-founder and CEO of AAP(All around players), an artist brand that creates an environment where artists grow sustainably, under the slogan ” Another Name for Dream ” He hopes that the irrationalities and problems of the music industry, that he has felt while working in the music industry for 19 years, will be solved through the STAYGE One and the blockchain technology. He is making “music for my enjoyment” even today.

KJ Eee

 Steve Cho

• STAYGE Labs / CTO
• KTDS / Senior Software Engineer
• KT / Software Engineer
• Nomad Connection / Software Engineer
• Oullim Information Technology / Software Engineer
• KAIST / M.S in CSE
• POSTECH / B.S in CSE

About

Steve Cho has deep understandings in a variety of computer science and engineering fields such as a large-scale database, network protocols, and security. Steve Cho worked as a senior software engineer for KTDS, IT professional firm derived from KT which is one of the largest telecommunication company in South Korea. He has 10+ years-experiences with development and operation of customer & order management system for KT with more than 20 million subscribers. Steve was a software engineer at Oullim Information Technology, a network security company in South Korea providing full featured firewall/VPN products, for 3 years with contributions to adding functionalities of firewall engine such as kernel-level state synchronization via a multicast-based custom protocol between multiple firewalls, self-organizing load balancing without L4 switch. He graduated and obtained M.S. from KAIST and B.S. from POSTECH for a major of CSE.

Michael Baeg

• STAYGE One / Co-founder & CEO
• STAYGE Labs / Co-founder & CEO
• Formation 8 Partners / Asia Business Operating Partner
• On*Media (acquired by CJ Group) / New Biz-dev Team Manager
• Entelligent (acquired by NEXON Mobile) / Team Leader & Senior Software Engineer
• DelphiEye (acquired by Webzen) / Software Engineer
• Actoz Soft (acquired by Shanda) / Software Engineer
• POSTECH / B.S. in CSE

About

Michael Baeg is a co-founder & CEO of STAYGE One. Michael founded STAYGE Labs which is a company behind STAYGE One blockchain project in 2016. Michael has invested in and a business development of startup companies in the United States and Korea through his career in a venture capital firm, Formation 8 Partners. Michael Baeg has an extensive knowledge and network of both IT and entertainment industry through his experience in gaming and media company.Michael is a well-connected person who has a wide range of experience at IT & startup industry over than 15 years as a software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor.Michael graduated from POSTECH, the top engineering university in South Korea with a major of Computer Science that alumni network has a great influence on a blockchain industry in South Korea.