Dr Tae Yun Kim, CEO of Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, was recently named winner of a Gold Lifetime Achievement Award during the sixteenth Annual American Business Awards at a gala ceremony attended by 500+ guests at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions is a global contamination control monitoring industry specialist. It develops systems to monitor the ultra-clean environments needed to manufacture semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and other sensitive products. Dr Tae Yun Kim founded the company in 1982.
Dr Tae Yun Kim was nominated for a lifetime achievement under the management category for business products industries. The awards are the US’s premier business awards programme. All organisations operating in the US are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
More than 3,700 nominations from organisations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 200 professionals worldwide participated in the two-month judging process to select this year’s winners.
One of the judges referring to Dr Tae Yun Kim, said: “Amazing story of an ultra-driven successful business person.”
“The nominations submitted for the 2018 awards were outstanding. The competition was intense and those recognised as winners should be immensely proud of this accomplishment,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the American Business Awards.
Surviving the Korean War in the 1950’s, Dr Tae Yun Kim eventually became one of the highest-ranked female martial artists in the world and coached the first US women’s Taekwondo team at the 1978 Pre-World Games in Seoul, Korea.
She went on to be named “Woman of the Year” in California and to win a Susan B. Anthony Award, both a Gold and Silver Stevie Award for Women in Business, and now an American Business Award Gold for Lifetime Achievement.
“It is an honour to receive a Gold American Business Award for Lifetime Achievement,” said Dr Kim. “Truly, if I can achieve my goals in this lifetime, others can do the same – never give up!
