AI and data specialist UCLIX said on Monday it has hired Kim Jung-in (김정인), who previously served as a partner at McKinsey & Company and a vice president at Hyundai Card, and will strengthen its strategic consulting capabilities to support corporate AI transformation.

Kim worked as a partner at McKinsey & Company, leading corporate strategy, risk management, digital transformation, mergers and acquisitions and corporate innovation projects for Asian financial institutions, private equity firms and conglomerates. He later held roles at Hyundai Card including head of operations, chief strategy officer and head of the card business division.

He is also participating in key strategic decisions as an outside director of SKC, including reshaping the business portfolio, improving business performance and financial structuring.

Kim will lead the build-out of UCLIX's enterprise AI services business centred on Aify, the company's management consulting-based corporate AI transformation business brand.

UCLIX said the hire is a strategic move as companies' demand for AI adoption is rising rapidly with the spread of generative AI and agentic AI. It said it aims to build a business that goes beyond applying technology and brings AI into management strategy and organisational innovation, customer experience and overall brand competitiveness.

UCLIX plans to combine its existing IT and AI capabilities with Kim's expertise in global consulting and corporate management, focusing on closing the gap between strategy formulation and execution that corporate clients face during AI transformation. "AI is no longer a tool that automates some tasks, but a key driving force that fundamentally redefines corporate strategy, operating methods, customer experience and brand competitiveness," Kim said. "What matters is not adopting AI itself, but execution capability that connects it to management performance and organisational change in line with the real needs of corporate management." He said the company will support firms in crafting strategies needed in the AI era and turning them into changes that can be executed on the ground, centred on Aify.