Yao Huang
Board Director/Climate Activist
Yao is an Investor and tech veteran with two decades of experience in technology, partnerships, and investing. She has founded companies, helped corporations launch new innovation initiatives. She is on the board of Carbon Optimum, a carbon sequestering company removing carbon dioxide from polluting coal, cement, steel plants and circularly producing biomass for carbon negative fuel, fertilizer, food, and methane reducing animal feed. She has a particular passion for scalable, executable climate solutions to save the planet as well as helping entrepreneurs, women, and social causes with projects in place to build global communities, push more women into executive positions.
Yao was named by Forbes as one of eleven women at the center of New York’s digital scene and TechWeek’s 100 most influential people in tech. She is a sought after speaker in areas of building internet companies, technology, big data, innovation, entrepreneurship, and climate. Yao and her efforts have been featured in World Economic Forum, Fortune, INC Magazine, Reuters, Daily News, Red Herring, Crains, American Venture, and TED. She leads a 17 year network of 10,000 women across 30 cities touching every corporation. She believes in minority and women’s access to capital in fair ways and works to increase those funds in different ways.
