PTC Korea's new CEO, Kim Sang-geon, has expressed his ambition to proactively respond to the digital transformation market based on his expertise in creating various success stories with major domestic customers as the head of PTC's domestic sales headquarters for the past five years.

PTC Korea announced on the 15th that it has appointed Executive Director Sang-Geon Kim as the new branch manager.

Kim Sang-geon, who joined PTC in 2016 and served as the Head of Domestic Sales and Headquarters, has led PTC's digital transformation management. As the new head of PTC Korea, he plans to focus on driving successful digital transformation journeys for domestic customers based on his experience.

Prior to joining PTC, Sang-Gun Kim led IBM's Software Solutions Group, bringing with him over 25 years of expertise in the IT industry. He will focus on helping manufacturing industry customers build digital environments by integrating virtual technologies into the physical realm and implementing new ways of working using the metaverse to improve design, quality, production, sales, and service.

Kim Sang-geon, CEO of PTC Korea, said, “Business transformation utilizing digital twins and metaverse is emerging as an important competitive advantage in the market. “We plan to actively leverage PTC’s strengths, which include a wide portfolio in CAD, PLM, IIoT, AR, and spatial computing,” he said. “In order for the manufacturing industry market to innovate more quickly, the use of SaaS must be actively considered, and PTC, which has quickly established a SaaS model for this purpose, will become the most trusted partner.”

PTC helps manufacturing companies define physical areas with digital technology through its on-premise CAD solution Creo and SaaS CAD platform OnShape, manage physical areas with digital technology through its PLM solution Windchill and SaaS PLM Arena, connect digital and physical areas through its IoT platform ThingWorx, and augment physical assets with digital technology through its AR platform Vuforia.

Additionally, the SaaS model leads the market by minimizing silos within organizations and enhancing collaboration in terms of managing hardware, software, and IT systems.

PTC, the only company to be named a leader in all reports from the four major research organizations in the industrial IoT market last year—Gartner, IDC, Forrester, and ABI Research—has achieved double-digit annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth for four consecutive years as of fiscal year 2021, which ended September 30.

In Korea, we operate a systematic partner ecosystem in cooperation with Platinum Partner Digitech, E3PS, and domestic authorized distributor Dimoa.

Newly appointed CEO Kim Sang-geon holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Korea University and a master's degree in economics from Sogang University. He also completed the MBA CEP (Client Executive Program) at INSEAD Business School in Singapore.