Richard Yang

Mr. Richard Yang was most recently a Associate Director at Starr International, a $ 2 billion private equity firm (owned by Mr. Greenberg) focused on China investments, and successfully close a $ 70M clean energy investment project. Prior to Starr, Mr. Yang was a Vice President of the Hina Group based in Shanghai, mainly involved in cross-border M&A. Before joining the Hina Group, Mr. Yang was a Corporate Business Development Manager at Advanced Micro Devices ("AMD"), where he helped the company to pursue opportunities in technology transfer commercialization, strategic investments, and alliances. Prior to AMD, Mr. Yang Co-founded and managed SEACOMES Technologies, a pioneering media streaming company, and led fundraising, strategy, business development activities.

Prior to graduate school, Mr. Yang worked for Huawei Technologies, China's leading Telecommunication Equipment Vendor, as Senior Vice President Assistant, and successfully implemented several strategic asset restructuring initiatives, such as the spin-off of Avansys Technologies to Emerson Electric at US$750 million, draft of Huawei's break-through phantom stock option plan, and world-wide JV establishment (sales platform). Mr. Yang earned his MA in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics (“UIBE”) and MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Yang is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and fluent in English, with conversant Japanese.