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Ohad Topor, Founder and Chairman of TCK, named Best Leader by KAAP

Soonmin Hwang for Maeil Business Newspaper
May 4, 2021

Ohad Topor, Founder and Chairman of TCK Investments, has been selected as “Best Leader” by the Korean Association of Administrative Professionals (President: Hong Soon-yi).

Topor received the “Best Leader Award”’ in an event held to celebrate Administrative Professionals’ Day on April 28, according to the KAAP. Every year, the Korean representative group of secretaries chooses and announces the best leader among the most respected people in Korea. It gathers recommendations for ‘respectable boss’ from 100,000 administrative professionals throughout the nation and a panel of executives evaluates the candidates to determine the best leader of the year. Some of the previous award winners include Lee Byeong-seok (former National Assembly Deputy Speaker), Kim Jang-hwan (Chief Director of Far East Broadcasting Company), Park In-sook (member of the National Assembly), and Choi Young-ik (Founding manager at Nexus Law Group).

Ohad Topor is the founder and chairman of TCK investments. For the last 17 years, he has invested across private equity, hedge fund, venture capital, equity and fixed income. Before founding TCK, he was with Square Capital, a private investment office based in London and Paris. He’s also an advisor to the Korea Israel Innovation Center. He holds a Master in Business from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University.

”Administrative Professionals’ Day” was created in 1952 in the U.S. as part of the effort to acknowledge administrative professionals’ hard work. A U.S. committee, which was trying to resolve a lack of experienced assistants in the country, declared June 4th Secretaries Day with strong support from the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Charles W. Sawyer. In 1955, the National Secretaries Association (now known as the International Association of Administrative Professionals) moved the National Secretaries Week to the last full week of April and designated the Wednesday of the week as Secretaries Day (now Administrative Professionals’ Day ).

The KAAP has recently added a word meaning ‘office work’ to its Korean name. “Facing the 4th Industrial Revolution and the Post-COVID era, I hope the KAPP can evolve into a ground for retraining and communication for professional assistants and administrative workers to help them respond to the ever-shifting office environment in a smarter way”, said President Hong at the celebration event.