Nicholas Yang

Nicholas Yang is Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company.  He is responsible for overseeing the development, management and marketing of the US$2 billion Cyberport Project and formulating strategies for the company, a private limited company wholly-owned by the HKSAR Government.

Mr. Yang has more than twenty nine years of general management, sales, marketing, strategic planning, consulting, and technology development expertise in various industries. He started his career in U.S. working for Intel Corporation in 1978 as senior design engineer.  After graduating from Stanford Business School, he worked as a strategic management consultant for Bain & Company.

In 1983, Mr. Yang left U.S. and came to Hong Kong, and worked for 16 years in Hong Kong and China as the Executive Director and Deputy Group Managing Director of Shell Electric Mfg. (Holdings) Ltd., focusing on investing and managing infrastructural and technology ventures.  In 1999, Mr. Yang joined JDS Uniphase Corporation as Vice President of Asia in Strategic Planning and Sales & Marketing, specializing in fiber-optic telecommunication products.  In 2002, he became senior consultant and director of several well-known venture capital and private equity investment firms.

Mr. Yang earned his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from California Institute of Technology in the U.S.  He also received MS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Mr. Yang was born in Taiwan and is a permanent resident of Hong Kong.