Jerry Yang
April 22, 2026
Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 with fellow Stanford graduate student David Filo. He served on its board and executive team until 2012, including as Chief Executive Officer from 2007 to 2009. In 2012, he founded AME Cloud Ventures, a venture innovation firm that invests in technology companies from seed to later stages.
Mr. Yang currently serves on the boards of Workday Inc. and Alibaba Group, as well as several private companies and foundations. Since 2017, Mr. Yang has been a member of Stanford University’s Board of Trustees, where he served as Board Chair from 2021 to 2025. He is also a board member of The Asian American
Foundation (TAAF), and a member of both the Committee of 100 and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Yang holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
