Samsung Electronics Organizational Structure

About the company

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is the listed Korean company that makes Galaxy phones, televisions and home appliances, and separately manufactures the memory, foundry and logic chips that a large part of the electronics industry runs on. It is listed in Seoul as KRX 005930, employs roughly 262,600 people worldwide and reported KRW 333.6 trillion of revenue for FY2025.

The single most misread fact about it is corporate rather than commercial: there is no Samsung Group holding company. Samsung Electronics is itself the largest listed operating firm in a network of affiliates held together by cross-shareholdings, family influence and coordinating bodies rather than by a parent entity. That is why the chart on this page depicts one legal entity and stops there — Samsung Display and Harman International are majority-owned but separately incorporated, and are excluded on purpose.

The structure is worth studying because Samsung runs two businesses with almost nothing in common inside one company. Memory and foundry are capital-cycle businesses selling to Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Tesla; phones and televisions are consumer businesses competing with several of those same customers. Samsung's answer to that tension is visible in its org chart rather than in its segment reporting.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. organizational chart

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.'s reporting structure as of 2026-08. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom — or open it in QueryChart and edit it as your own.

Two product divisions, two chief executives, and a control tower above both

The company is divided into two product divisions that behave almost like separate firms. Device eXperience (DX) covers mobile, visual display, digital appliances and network equipment. Device Solutions (DS) covers memory, foundry and System LSI, plus the semiconductor R&D centre. Harman is reported as a third segment but is a separate legal entity and is not drawn here. On 21 November 2025 Samsung reinstated a dual-CEO structure over that split: TM Roh as President & CEO and Head of DX, and YoungHyun Jun as Vice Chairman & CEO and Head of DS. The company had run under a single CEO since March 2025, when the previous DX head died in office and Roh acted in the role.

An org chart is a single-parent tree, and two co-CEOs cannot both be the top of one. This chart therefore roots on Jay Y. Lee as Executive Chairman, with an edge to each co-CEO. Read that edge as group-level control, not as a documented reporting line: Samsung publishes no org chart and no source states that TM Roh or YoungHyun Jun reports to the Executive Chairman. Everything below the two co-CEOs is different in kind — the divisional business heads under their own CEO are named in Samsung's own leadership announcements.

Both co-CEOs also personally run an operating business. Roh remains Head of the Mobile eXperience Business and Jun remains Head of the Memory Business, so the two largest profit engines in the company are managed by the same people who supervise everything else. The top of Samsung is deliberately operator-heavy rather than supervisory, which compresses the distance between a product decision and the person who signs it off, and correspondingly loads the two busiest jobs in the company still further.

Coordination that crosses the two divisions runs through corporate bodies rather than through a chief operating officer. The Business Support Office, made a permanent standing organisation in November 2025 under President Hark-kyu Park after it had spent years as a task force, handles group-wide capital allocation and organisational planning. The CFO, Soon-Cheol Park, also heads Corporate Management Operations and presents results for the whole company rather than for a division. Neither of those two reporting lines is publicly stated; both are drawn under the Executive Chairman here because both are company-wide functions, and both are candidates for reporting jointly to the co-CEOs instead.

Key leadership roles

1. Jay Y. Lee

   Executive Chairman — Chairman since October 2022 and the chart's root, but he holds no board seat and no public source documents the co-CEOs reporting to him; the edge below him represents group-level control.

2. TM Roh

   President & CEO, Head of the DX Division — One of two co-CEOs appointed on 21 November 2025. Runs all finished-device businesses and still personally heads the Mobile eXperience Business; also an executive director on the board.

3. YoungHyun Jun

   Vice Chairman & CEO, Head of the DS Division — The other co-CEO, equal in rank to Roh rather than subordinate. Runs semiconductors and still personally heads the Memory Business; also an executive director.

4. Hark-kyu Park

   President, Head of the Business Support Office — Took over the group coordination function when it became a permanent office in November 2025. Its reporting line is not publicly stated.

5. Soon-Cheol Park

   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Also heads Corporate Management Operations and presents company-wide results. Placed under the Executive Chairman here because the CFO's actual reporting line is not disclosed.

6. Jaihyuk Song

   President & CTO, DS Division — Heads the Semiconductor R&D Center and is one of only three executive directors on the board.

7. Jin-man Han

   President, Head of the Foundry Business — Runs the contract-manufacturing business that sells capacity to companies competing with Samsung's own device division.

8. Yong-In Park

   President, Head of the System LSI Business — Leads logic chip design, including the Exynos line. Current tenure rests on secondary sources rather than a 2026 Samsung announcement.

9. Yong Kwan Kim

   Corporate President, Corporate Management, Strategy & Operation, DS Division — The DS Division's own management and strategy function, which is what lets semiconductors run at arm's length from corporate staff.

10. Hongkun Park

    President, Head of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology — SAIT is a corporate-level research institute; it is drawn under the DS CEO because he held the SAIT role himself before this appointment, but its reporting line is not published.

11. Won-joon Choi

    President & COO, Mobile eXperience Business — Runs MX operationally beneath Roh, who retains the business head title.

12. Won-Jin Lee

    President, Head of the Visual Display Business — Appointed in May 2026, moving from the Global Marketing Office, which has not since been publicly filled.

13. Janghyun Yoon

    President & CTO, DX Division — Also heads Samsung Research, the device division's global R&D network, which is separate from SAIT.

14. Mauro Porcini

    President & Chief Design Officer, DX Division — Samsung's first Chief Design Officer, a role created in 2025 that reports into the DX CEO rather than sitting inside a product business.

How this structure supports the business

Splitting the chief executive role by division matches the way the two businesses actually consume management attention. Memory and foundry are decided in multi-year capacity commitments measured in tens of billions of dollars; phones and televisions are decided in annual product cycles and channel negotiations. One executive covering both is either half-informed on each or permanently arbitrating between them, and Samsung has now twice concluded that two is the better answer.

Keeping the two divisions genuinely separate is also what lets DS operate as a merchant supplier. Samsung sells memory and foundry capacity to companies that compete directly with DX, and that is only tolerable to those customers if the chip business is run by someone whose incentives are the chip business. The divisional wall is a commercial asset, not just an internal convenience.

The corporate layer is deliberately thin and company-wide rather than duplicated per division. One CFO presents one set of results, one Business Support Office handles group planning, and R&D sits in two named institutions rather than being scattered. That keeps the number of people who can commit Samsung to something small, which is how a company of 262,600 people still moves on a fab decision in months.

Advantages and disadvantages

A dual-CEO split gives semiconductors and finished devices each a full-time chief executive with deep domain expertise, which matters when memory and mobile run on completely different capital cycles and customer sets.

No single operating executive owns the cross-division trade-offs — whether Galaxy phones use in-house Exynos or external silicon, for example — so arbitration is pushed up to the Executive Chairman and the Business Support Office rather than settled by a COO.

Running DS as a merchant supplier gives the chip business a market far larger than Samsung's own device demand, and a customer list that includes the largest buyers of leading-edge silicon.

Those same customers compete with the DX Division, forcing internal information barriers and leaving the foundry permanently disadvantaged against a pure-play competitor that no customer can view as a rival.

A permanent Business Support Office gives Samsung group-wide capital allocation, government negotiation and organisational planning at a speed a purely divisional structure could not deliver, which is what multi-billion-dollar fab commitments require.

It is an internal body with no statutory standing and no shareholder mandate — the same criticism that forced its 2017 predecessor to be dissolved — so real decision rights sit outside the board that is legally accountable for them.

A majority-independent board with an independent chair and all-independent committees bar one is unusually strong governance for a Korean chaebol affiliate, and speaks directly to the foreign institutions holding a large share of the register.

Because the Executive Chairman sits outside the board entirely, the strongest formal oversight mechanism does not reach the person with the greatest practical influence over strategy and succession.

Interesting facts

• The most powerful figure at Samsung Electronics is not on its board. Jay Y. Lee has been Executive Chairman since October 2022 but has held no board seat since 2019, and the company's February 2026 AGM materials list only Jun, Roh and Song as executive directors.
• Samsung separated the board chair from the CEO role in March 2018 and has appointed an outside director to chair ever since, which is why the top of the management tree and the top of the governance structure are two different people.
• Every board committee except one is composed entirely of independent directors. The exception, the Management Committee, is exactly the three executive directors — so operational decisions and oversight sit in structurally separate bodies.
• A working technologist holds a board seat: Jaihyuk Song is an executive director while serving as DS CTO and Head of the Semiconductor R&D Center. Very few companies of this size seat their chip R&D chief on the board.
• The group coordination function was made permanent in November 2025, when the Business Support Task Force became a standing office — a notable step given that Samsung dissolved its predecessor, the Future Strategy Office, in 2017 under political pressure.
• Both co-CEOs keep a line job. Roh still personally heads the Mobile eXperience Business and Jun still heads the Memory Business, so neither of the two top roles is purely supervisory.

Frequently asked questions

Does Samsung Electronics have one CEO or two?

Two. Since 21 November 2025 Samsung has run a dual-CEO structure: TM Roh as President & CEO heading the DX Division, and YoungHyun Jun as Vice Chairman & CEO heading the DS Division. They are peers, not a CEO and a deputy, and both sit on the board as executive directors.

What is the difference between Samsung's DX and DS divisions?

DX, or Device eXperience, is the finished-product side: mobile phones, televisions and displays, home appliances and network equipment. DS, or Device Solutions, is the component side: memory, foundry services and System LSI logic chips, plus semiconductor R&D. They have separate CEOs, separate customers and largely separate management structures.

Who is above the co-CEOs at Samsung Electronics?

Jay Y. Lee holds the title of Executive Chairman and is generally understood to sit above both. Samsung publishes no org chart, however, and no public source states that either co-CEO formally reports to him, so the edge in this diagram represents group-level control rather than a documented reporting line.

Are Samsung Display and Harman shown in this chart?

No. Both are majority-owned by Samsung Electronics but are separate legal entities with their own chief executives, and Harman is reported as its own segment. This chart depicts Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. alone, which is also why there is no Samsung Group holding company at the top of it — none exists.

Can I edit this Samsung org chart?

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