Background
Yun was born in Seoul, South of Korea.
Yun was born in Seoul, South of Korea.
He attended Saint Albans School, a private all-boys school in Washington, District of Columbia He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1994 and completed a fellowship and residency in radiology from Stanford Hospital in 2000.
He went on to study at Harvard College where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology in 1990. After his residency, he served on the clinical faculty at the same institution from 2000 until 2006. Yun began his career as a healthcare analyst in 1998 at Palo Alto Investors, Limited Liability Company, a hedge fund based in Palo Alto, California, with $1 billion assets under management invested in healthcare.
Palo Alto Investors was founded in 1989 by William Edwards, the son of venture capitalist Bill Edwards, one of the original Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
Yun has been responsible for healthcare investments for Palo Alto Investors since 1998 and in 2008 was elected president of the firm. Yun has served on several corporate and non-profit boards, including SV2.
He is a contributor to Forbes, and a speaker and commentator on Bloomberg, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks conference, George Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking, and numerous other media outlets and conferences.