Oak Yeon Kim is Vice President, Commercial Strategies & Market Access for Janssen Asia Pacific and is a member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Team.
OakYeon began her career at Janssen in 1992 after completing a year as a Research Associate with the Korean FDA. She went on to hold a variety of roles with increasing responsibility, spending three years in the global marketing group in Beerse, Belgium and subsequently leading the marketing department at Janssen Korea.
In 2004, Oak Yeon was appointed as Head of Asia Pacific Regional Marketing where she led regional growth strategies across various therapeutic areas and played a key role in developing regional capabilities.
After three successful years in the region, she was promoted to General Manager of Janssen Malaysia, where she led the business portfolio transition to focus on innovative medicines.
She then moved to Xian Janssen in China in 2010 to lead the General Medicines Business Unit where she demonstrated outstanding team-building and development skills, which inspired her team’s performance and business growth.
Oak Yeon then returned to Korea in the summer of 2012 to serve as Area Managing Director, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Under her leadership, Janssen Korea showed excellent business- and cultural turn-around and led industry-level policy activities that have enhanced the environment for patients to access innovative medicines in Korea. Also, Janssen Taiwan and Hong Kong established their leadership positions in several innovative medicines.
Oak Yeon is an alumnus of Seoul National University and is based in Seoul.