Dr. Sean Lee is the CEO of Cornerstone Technology Partners Inc., a U.S. company that specializes in software consulting and professional development services for the information technology industry. Lee has a long history of working with the high tech and financial industries. His prior experience includes executive and chief strategic officer roles to handle strategic planning, business development, financing, mergers and acquisition, from relatively early-stage high-technology companies such as Mobile Solutions, Rutilus Software, LogisticsONE to global business operations in multibillion and Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung and the now defunct AST Research, where he served as director of worldwide product planning and marketing.
He played a major role in winning the "Top 100 Product Innovations of the Year" Award from Popular Science Magazine as well as top product awards from industry publications and mergers and acquisitions of technology companies. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Mobile Maven award by Mobile Insights for his outstanding contribution and influence on the mobile industry.
Dr. Lee successfully developed and launched the industry’s first 3G CDMA mobile wireless data communication product with a leading-edge technology company and global scale service carrier in the U.S. and Korea. He also developed a next-generation, enterprise-class retail and B2B commerce system that works as a technology backbone for a company, supporting its fast-growing retail business with a top hypermarket chain store company in China. He sits on the Advisory Board at New York Institute of Technology’s Center for International Business Studies. He has an M.B.A. and a Ph.D.