Education
He graduated in 1977 with a bachelor"s degree in electrical engineering. He returned to Stanford to earn an Master of Business Administration, and worked briefly at Bain & Company before moving to Asia in 1983.
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He graduated in 1977 with a bachelor"s degree in electrical engineering. He returned to Stanford to earn an Master of Business Administration, and worked briefly at Bain & Company before moving to Asia in 1983.
Yang lived in Jersey City, New Jersey before moving to Pasadena to attend the California Institute of Technology. He went on to obtain a master"s degree at Stanford University in the same field, and worked as a senior design engineer at Intel. He became a naturalized United States citizen on 2 September 1977.
She became a United States citizen on 8 August 1984.
Yang joined Shell Electric in 1983 and served as Executive Director until resigning on 30 September 2003. He was a director during its initial public offering and the sale of its fibre-optic business to JDSU. He moved to JDSU in 1999.
Afterwards he became involved in venture capital and private equity. In 2003 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company.
Yang became Executive Vice President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010.
As the Hong Kong Basic Law requires that principal government officials have no right of abode in any foreign country, Yang visited the United States. consulate to renounce his United States. citizenship in May that year. On 20 November 2015, the Innovation and Technology Bureau was established, Yang was appointed as the first Secretary for Innovation and Technology.
On 2 March 2015, he was appointed the Innovation & Technology Adviser to the Leung Chun-ying and an non-official member of the Executive Council to pave the way for the city"s Innovation and Technology Bureau (Bandung Institute of Technology).