Thomas Hongtack Kim is a Creative Solutionist and founder of ‘2kg’, Creative Solution Lab and also CCO of Paulus, Meta Creative Collective. Among other things, as International Board of Directors of One Club for Creativity, he joins TOCC's significant projects to keep the creative spirit alive. Before this, he has worked for Cheil Worldwide as an Executive Creative Director of Creative Innovation Group. Having worked in Korea, New York, Beijing, and Shanghai Thomas has dealt with a wide array of clients including Samsung Mobile. His speciality is architecting the digital, social, and CSR platforms to create the practical solution as well as launching an ad campaign. Recent years he has focused on solving the social problems such as ‘environment’, ‘equality for gender and education’, ‘hunger and poverty’ and etc, and has built a new ecosystem of helping each other using blokchain. That’s why he has worked with UN’s Organization, NGOs, Government, University, and some Blockchain Companies these days. For this reason, he was invited to a judge and mentor 'Cannes Chimera', a project created by Bill Gates and Cannes Lions Alliance to solve the miserable and unequal situations around the world, and was the first judge of the SDG Pencil category created by the United Nations and One Show. He has received numerous International Creative Awards and participated as a member of the jury such as Cannes Lions, One Show, One Show Asia, D&AD, Clio, LIA, New York Festival,, Adfest, Spikes Asia, Tambuli, Webby Awards,IF Design Awards… And he also has much experiences of keynote speeches such as Cannes Lions, One Show, Adfest, Spikes Asia, Google Taiwan,Yahoo Hong Kong, Anuncio Madrid, China 4A,TED X, and etc… As a result, he was selected ‘Creator of the year’ 2012 for his creative excellence by Campaign Asia-Pacific and has been ranked in the Top 10 Executive Creative Directors worldwide in the Directory Big Won Rankings 2013 as the only Asian executive creative director. And also he received the Presidential Citation for Significant Contribution to Korea Advertising Industry. In addition to that, as a Visiting Professor of Yonsei University and a curator of Global Art Festival, he does everything he can to share creative culture with people.