Kirk Y. Yang

Kirk Y. Yang (Chinese: 楊應超; born 1967) has been an investment banking technology equity analyst for over 15 years at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Nomura, and BNP Paribas, and was a managing director and head of Asia technology research at Citi and Barclays. Previously, he worked as a CFO and board director at a Hong Kong mainboard listed company and a pre-US IPO tech company in China, in addition to management consulting and engineering positions at A.T. Kearney, Accenture, IBM, EDS, AT&T, and Emerson Electric.

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Kirk Yang was born in 1967 in Taipei, Taiwan. He and his family immigrated to Flagstaff, Arizona in 1982, where he enrolled at East Flagstaff Junior High School and Coconino High School, and was elected as the president of the chess club and concertmaster at both Coconino High School and Flagstaff Youth Symphony Orchestra. He entered the freshman engineering program at Purdue university in 1985.

He received the B.S. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering in 1989 at Purdue. Although he was admitted into the graduate school of electrical engineering at Stanford university, he decided to stay at Purdue to finish his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1991 while he worked as an electrical engineering teaching assistant for 2 years and served as the president of HKN, the national electrical engineering honor society. After enrolled in the Ph.D. study in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, he switched to business school and received an MBA degree with concentrations in finance, accounting, and marketing from the University of Chicago in 1996.

He worked as an engineering at AT&T and IBM, consultant at Andersen Consulting (later renamed to Accenture), and business development manager at Emerson Electric in US, before moved to Hong Kong in 1996 after received his MBA degree to join A.T. Kearney as a management consultant. He was subsequently appointed as the director of business development and strategic marketing for EDS China (company later acquired by HP) and relocated to Beijing from 1998-1999.

After EDS closed most of its China operation in 1999, he then moved back to Hong Kong and started his equity analyst career with various investment banks, first with Paribas (later merged with BNP), then Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Salomon Smith Barney (later acquired by Citi). In 2008, at the peak of his equity analyst career, he joined Ta Yang Group, a Hong Kong mainboard listed public company, as its CFO and executive director. He left Ta Yang in 2009 but remained as its independent director, and relocated to Nanjing, China, to join Linkage Technologies as its CFO to help its US IPO listing, and successfully merged the company with AsiaInfo, a Nasdaq listed technology company, 3 days before Linkage’s planned NYSE IPO in late 2009.

He then moved back to Hong Kong and first joined Nomura and then Barclays Capital as its managing director to help Barclays to build its new Asia equity franchise in 2010 till the bank terminated this business in 2016. He is now the chief senior consultant at Ecom Fintech Group and New Horizon Capital in Taipei, and is a columnist at Business Weekly magazine. He also hosts a gourmet cooking TV program in Taiwan and is frequently invited as a speaker at various TV/radio talk shows, technology and investment forums in Asia.

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