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Timothy James is a global business leader with extensive experience spanning the public and private sectors, including finance, infrastructure, government, and nonprofit leadership. As Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Elevate Leadership Group, he advises governments, sovereign wealth funds, and institutional investors on mobilizing global capital into transformative infrastructure, energy, and logistics projects across emerging and frontier markets.
Timothy is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, selected to join a cohort of leaders dedicated to solving critical domestic and international challenges, with training informed by lessons from four U.S. presidential administrations. He currently serves as Treasurer of the US-Algeria Business Council, where he oversees financial strategy and supports initiatives strengthening cross-border economic partnerships. Previously, he served as Chair of the Lenny Zakim Fund, guiding the organization’s mission of advancing equity and justice for under-resourced communities.
Earlier in his career, Timothy held senior leadership roles at State Street, where he served as Enterprise Head of Funds Transfer, led enterprise-wide risk reduction initiatives, and championed the adoption of AI and automation. He also worked as a Program Manager for the United States Air Force, managing multi-billion-dollar contracts and advising senior Pentagon leaders.
Timothy earned his MBA from the IE Brown Executive MBA program, a joint degree from Brown University and IE Business School, where he deepened his expertise in global markets, leadership, and innovation. His career reflects a commitment to bridging business and government, unlocking growth through strategic partnerships, and driving impact at scale.
Junho Suh brings over 18 years of leadership experience to The Elevate Leadership Group, where he serves as Managing Partner. A seasoned strategist and entrepreneur, Junho plays a central role in guiding Elevate’s work at the intersection of investment platform architecture, capital syndication, and global market entry. Prior to Elevate, Junho co-founded multiple consulting and AI tech companies.
Under his leadership, the firm’s consulting division advised a global roster of high-performing individuals—including Fortune 500 executives, Silicon Valley founders, hedge fund managers, world-class athletes, and renowned creatives—on leadership development, emotional intelligence, and performance optimization. Junho’s career spans both corporate and entrepreneurial spheres.
He began his professional journey at global firms such as DuPont and Bristol Myers Squibb, before pivoting to ventures that align with his passion for empowering individuals and organizations to scale their impact.
At Elevate, Junho focuses on leadership advisory within national investment platforms, high-level strategic partnerships, and executive readiness in complex cross-border transactions. He is particularly passionate about fostering transformational leadership and cross-cultural business fluency in global expansion efforts. Junho holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from McMaster University and an Executive MBA by Brown University and IE Business School. He serves on the boards of The Wave Ministries and 58 Global, and enjoys spending time with his wife, Grace, and their four children—often at a squash court.
In addition to being a Managing Partner of Elevate, he is also a serial entrepreneur who constantly pushes the boundary of Art, Design and Technology.
James empowers Asia’s foremost category-leading brands to establish a global presence through innovative and bold creative solutions and insights, with a particular focus on the North American market. This includes role in the past as a Chief Marketing Officer, turning a local self-waxing Korean Beauty brand “Zizuss” into a category leader in less than six months of joining. James also serves as the co-founder & CEO of cosmetic group AsthetiK, with the brand Gache (gachebeauty.com) slated for launch in the fall of 2023.
James’ creative works in the form of television commercials, documentary and prints are seen across Asia and beyond. His recent creative work as a creative director includes featuring Asia’s first Volumetric Technique with a real-time virtual video production on a Metaverse Platform “SK Ifland.” The project “Meta Hongdae Music Tour” showcases the most sought-after K-pop artists in an interactive music concert within the metaverse environment. This project later received accreditation as the most successful metaverse project launch in 2022 by Ifland.
James’ has over a decade of experience in working with some of the notable figures in the entertainment world. He has personally directed K-pop music videos using cutting-edge technology such as real-time virtual production & volumetric capture technology for artists like pH-1, Sunwoo Jung-Ah, 10cm, Kim Jae Whan, Car the garden & YB Band. In 2016, James was the first in South Korea to produce 4K content starring renown K-pop group “Big Bang” in a UHD documentary titled “Big Bang MADE” for national broadcast on a public television.
Not only does James’ creative work is seen in the world of entertainment but most noticeable in the creative advertising space. His creative works as the creative director at a global advertising agency includes clients like IKEA, EA Sports, Mars Inc. and Hotels.com Moreover, his creative experience span in overseeing production for television commercial & global promo films as a producer for global brands like New Balance, Samsung Display & many more.
James has amassed invaluable insights and knowledge on how multinational firms, artists, and designers cultivate and refine creative thinking work process. He directed and produced feature-length documentaries on the subjects of design and emotional marketing for Samsung Electronics’ Global Marketing team and the Samsung Design Group. Spanning 11 different countries, these documentaries feature personal interviews with marketing gurus, futurologists, designers, leading researchers, professors, CEOs, and executives at corporate headquarters including Airbus, Absolut Vodka, GE Plastics, GE Aviation, IDEO, L’Oreal, LEGO, MIT Media Lab, Patek Philippe, Samsung Design America, SHR Perceptual Management, and many others.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, James holds an Executive MBA from IE Business School and Brown University. Outside his business pursuits, he is an avid ice hockey player, enjoys playing golf, and practices jiu-jitsu.
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