Robert Rhee

Robert Rhee has been appointed the new CEO of BlueOval SK, the name of the joint venture between Ford Motor Company and SK Innovation in Tennessee and Kentucky. Rhee has been the head of SK’s production division since December 2021 and has been with the company since 2019. Before that, Rhee previously served as a vice president with Samsung for more than 30 years, including two years as the head of its battery tech center in Germany and 30 with the company in South Korea. Rhee holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Pusan National University and a doctorate in mathematics from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.