Technology-driven. Entrepreneurial. Built to execute.
We have built a team that combines deep healthcare experience with technology, innovation, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Experience, ingenuity, and speed of execution.
Our team looks at healthcare through the combined lenses of providers, operators, patients, technology, investment, and real estate.
We have built a team that combines deep healthcare experience with technology, innovation, and an entrepreneurial mindset. Our team is technologically advanced, closely follows emerging trends in AI, digital health, healthcare technology, and new business models, and is focused on turning promising ideas into action.
Our team brings decades of combined experience across pharmacy, medical real estate, healthcare businesses, investment, and healthcare operations. This breadth of experience allows us to look at opportunities from multiple perspectives—not only as investors, but also through the lens of healthcare providers, operators, patients, technology, and real estate.
We believe innovation is most valuable when it produces better, more convenient, and more accessible healthcare outcomes. We are constantly looking for technologies, tools, platforms, and business models that can improve how healthcare is delivered.
Our team has a strong interest in AI, digital health, automation, diagnostics, online pharmacy, telemedicine, and other emerging healthcare technologies. When we identify a meaningful new trend or technology, our objective is not simply to observe it—we aim to understand it quickly and determine how it can be applied within our businesses.
We are a hands-on, entrepreneurial team that values speed of execution. We work hard, move quickly, and remain flexible as markets and technologies evolve.
As we establish and expand our presence in Canada, we intend to maintain this culture. If our team identifies an important emerging trend in healthcare, technology, AI, pharmacy, or medical real estate, we want to be in a position to evaluate it quickly, make informed decisions, and execute rapidly when the opportunity is right.
We believe that the ability to recognize change early—and then translate that insight into action—can be an important competitive advantage.
Our diversity of experience is one of our strengths. Our team understands different parts of the healthcare ecosystem, including pharmacy, healthcare businesses, medical real estate, healthcare operations, technology, and investment.
This combination allows us to pursue opportunities that may extend beyond a traditional investment approach. Depending on the opportunity, we can consider acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, technology initiatives, and operational improvements.
We are building a culture that is hard-working, passionate, innovative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial.
We value people who are curious about what is coming next, willing to challenge conventional approaches, and capable of turning ideas into execution. We believe that a strong culture, combined with experienced leadership and technological awareness, creates an organization capable of adapting as healthcare continues to evolve.
Our objective in Canada is not simply to build a portfolio of healthcare businesses. We aim to build a technology-enabled, innovative healthcare platform that can continuously adapt, identify emerging opportunities, and execute on them.
Our philosophy is simple: identify the trend early, understand its potential, and execute quickly.
The people behind our strategy.
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Hyungyu is a born entrepreneur and experienced healthcare investor with a proven track record of identifying opportunities, building businesses, and creating significant long-term value.
Throughout his career, Hyungyu has invested in multiple Korean healthcare assets through both private credit and private equity, developing a deep understanding of the healthcare sector and its diverse business models. He has also successfully raised more than $100 million in capital for various ventures and has been responsible for businesses generating more than $75 million in recurring revenue.
With extensive experience across Korea’s diversified healthcare landscape, Hyungyu brings a unique combination of entrepreneurial vision, investment expertise, capital-raising capabilities, and operational experience.
Today, Hyungyu sees significant opportunities within the Canadian and American healthcare markets, with a particular focus on the Canadian pharmacy industry and healthcare-related real estate. He believes the sector is at an important inflection point, presenting opportunities to leverage technology, scale, operational expertise, and innovative business models to build the next generation of healthcare and pharmacy platforms.
His vision is to combine proven international healthcare experience with North American market opportunities to create scalable, technology-enabled healthcare businesses that deliver meaningful value to patients, healthcare professionals, investors, and communities.
With a passion for technology, a degree in technology, and a strong specialization in emerging technologies, Jihe brings a unique ability to identify new business opportunities at the intersection of technology and commerce. Her expertise includes evaluating emerging technologies, understanding their practical applications, and identifying innovative ways to integrate them into existing and new business models.
She has a forward-looking approach to technology and business, with a particular focus on recognizing market trends, emerging opportunities, and technologies that can create competitive advantages. By combining technical knowledge with business insight, she helps identify opportunities for growth, innovation, and the development of scalable technology-driven ventures.
Throughout her career, she has helped scale and modernize several traditional, non-digital businesses by identifying opportunities to integrate technology in practical and beneficial ways. Her expertise lies in bridging the gap between traditional business operations and emerging technologies, helping organizations improve efficiency, enhance customer experiences, streamline processes, and unlock new opportunities for growth.
With a passion for finance, capital raising, and strategic financial management, Khush brings over 12 years of experience in the finance industry. Her expertise includes raising capital, developing corporate finance strategies, managing financial resources, and identifying opportunities to strengthen and grow businesses.
She combines financial expertise with a strategic, entrepreneurial mindset to help companies optimize their capital structure, manage risk, and achieve sustainable growth.
Kulwant Sandi is an experienced real estate developer and licensed real estate professional with more than 20 years of experience in the British Columbia and Canadian real estate markets. Throughout his career, he has developed extensive expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing strategic real estate opportunities across a range of sectors.
Kulwant brings a particularly valuable perspective to the healthcare industry, with a strong understanding of healthcare-related real estate and niche property opportunities. His experience in development, acquisitions, market analysis, and identifying strategically located properties enables him to recognize opportunities that align real estate assets with the evolving needs of healthcare businesses.
As the healthcare and pharmacy sectors continue to expand and evolve, Kulwant’s combination of real estate expertise, market knowledge, and entrepreneurial approach provides valuable insight into the acquisition, development, and optimization of healthcare-focused properties across British Columbia and Canada.
Mike Gill leads our Drugs.ca pharmacy portal development. Mike will also lead our acquisitions, innovation, and general business strategy for our retail pharmacies in the future, once the Drugs.ca portal is set up and fully operational.
With more than 25 years of experience in business management, pharmacy and healthcare operations, and strategic leadership, Mike brings a wealth of practical knowledge and industry expertise to the pharmacy sector.
Throughout his career, he has played a key leadership role in the development and growth of two successful independent pharmacy chains, helping guide their operations, business strategy, team development, and overall expansion. His experience combines a strong understanding of pharmacy practice with proven business management and leadership skills.
He also has extensive experience in venture capital and in raising capital effectively and rapidly for capital-intensive projects. He has extensive experience in pharmacy operations, strategic planning, business development, financial management, staff leadership, workflow optimization, and customer service. His practical, hands-on approach allows him to identify opportunities, solve operational challenges, and help businesses build sustainable and profitable models.
Jeannie holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s in Cosmetology: Beauty Industry and Convergence Beauty. Born and raised in Korea before immigrating to Canada, she is a highly trained and knowledgeable Korean beauty products specialist, aesthetician, and beauty advisor with a deep understanding of Korea’s rapidly evolving beauty and aesthetics industry.
Her expertise spans Korean skincare, beauty products, aesthetic treatments, consumer trends, and the innovative technologies that have made K-Beauty a global phenomenon.
Jeannie recognizes the significant opportunity to bring the best of Korea’s beauty innovation to the North American market, beginning with Canada and ultimately expanding into the United States. Her vision is to identify high-quality, innovative Korean beauty and aesthetic products and brands and introduce them to North American consumers through a carefully developed platform focused on quality, education, innovation, and consumer trust.
With her first-hand knowledge of Korean beauty trends and products, Jeannie provides an important bridge between the highly sophisticated Korean beauty market and the growing demand for advanced skincare and aesthetic solutions in North America.
Canada will serve as the initial market, providing a strategic foundation for expansion throughout North America and eventually into the United States.
Jeannie brings the specialized industry knowledge and cultural understanding necessary to identify emerging K-Beauty opportunities and help build a compelling North American business around one of the world’s most dynamic and lucrative beauty industries.
With 35 years of experience as a pharmacist, combined with an MBA and extensive business and management expertise, Mehdi Mirzaei brings a unique perspective to our interest in pursuing acquisitions and developing the pharmacy business in Canada, especially our online pharmacy portal, Drugs.ca.
Throughout a distinguished career, his expertise has been developed across patient care, pharmacy operations, leadership, business strategy, and healthcare management. The combination of clinical pharmacy knowledge and business education provides a practical, well-rounded approach to helping us develop a thriving pharmacy venture in Canada.
As a trusted pharmacist and MBA, his focus is on providing practical guidance, strategic insight, and solutions that balance quality patient care, professional standards, operational efficiency, and business success.
With over three decades of pharmacy experience, Hanguk Uilyo Investments will benefit from Mr. Mirzaei’s knowledge grounded in real-world practice, leadership, and a deep understanding of the evolving healthcare and pharmacy environment.
Apptunix is a leading software development company trusted by 5,000+ brands to build production-grade digital systems with 700+ engineers across four continents. They deliver secure, scalable AI-powered software solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
The Apptunix team will oversee the full development of a state-of-the-art digital platform, including a modern web portal, mobile application, and the necessary IT systems for back-end and front-end infrastructure to support our organization’s operations.
The technology platform will be designed to provide a seamless experience for customers, pharmacy teams, healthcare professionals, and management. It will integrate essential pharmacy services, business operations, communication, data management, and customer engagement into a secure and scalable digital environment.
The web portal and mobile app will be developed with a focus on innovation, accessibility, security, ease of use, and scalability, creating a strong digital foundation for future growth. The supporting IT systems will be designed to improve operational efficiency, enable informed decision-making, and allow the organization to adapt as technology and customer expectations evolve.
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