Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 4, 1999

Young Shin – Snap Technologies

YOUNG SHIN provides leadership and vision as CEO of SNAP Technologies. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Shin was the director of information technology for Mecon, a healthcare information services company. Before this, he directed the application architecture practice at Seer Technologies' Consulting division, a joint venture between IBM and Credit Suisse/First Boston. Mr. Shin established strategic application architecture standards at more than twenty Global 1000 companies including Charles Schwab, Norwest, Lloyds of London, Generali Assurance, Banco Comerciale Italiano, Den Danske Bank, and IBM Japan. Young also assisted on developing numerous mission-critical business applications at many of his clients. Before Seer, Mr. Shin was an associate at the Information Technology division of Morgan Stanley. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Sloan School of Management with dual degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Management Science. Profile
TWST: Can you give us a brief overview and a little history of the

company just to kind of set the stage for the readers?

Mr. Shin: We're a private venture capital backed company founded in