John H. Yang
President, Corporate Strategy & Development at United Talent Agency
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development
2021 - Current
Leading strategy across UTA’s portfolio of sports, entertainment, digital, and music assets
UTA Ventures is the venture capital arm of United Talent Agency and is based in Beverly Hills, California.
Venture Partner
2020
Advising the next generation of consumer brand companies
Brand Foundry Ventures is a Venture Capital Investment Firm.
Head of Strategy, Global Footwear
2019 - 2021
Leading product, digital, and merchandising initiatives across Nike's $23B global footwear division
Nike is a retail brand that provides the sale of apparel, footwear, sports equipment, and accessory products.
Raised $239,000,000.00 from Pershing Square Capital Management.
Director, Product Strategy & Marketing
2018 - 2019
Helping to monetize and bring new products and services to market
Sr. Manager, Corporate and Business Development
2016 - 2018
Corporate Strategy, M&A, and Strategic Partnerships
Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way.
Raised $4,068,500,000.00 from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
Director, Corporate Strategy and Development
2016 - 2016
Corporate-wide strategic planning, long range planning, competitive analysis, and M&A
Director, Digital TV Product Development and Strategy
2015 - 2016
Business Case/Modeling and Product Development for D2C/AVOD Streaming service
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Director, Customer Analytics
2015 - 2015
Data-informed customer experience initiatives and business cases
Director, Business Process Analytics
2014 - 2014
Building infrastructure to manage new data sources and develop advanced analytics
Comcast is a global media and technology company.
Summer Associate
2014 - 2014
Working on the Investment Team of a $25MM seed fund (VaynerRSE), in partnership between RSE Ventures and Gary Vaynerchuck, to invest in and incubate the next generation of tech companies.
RSE Ventures is a private investment firm that focuses on sports & entertainment, media & marketing, food & lifestyle and technology.
Summer Associate
2013 - 2013
An early-stage venture capital fund, led by Dan Gilbert, with a mission to invest in digital media companies that will transform the world and harness the entrepreneurial spark that will ignite the city of Detroit.
Detroit Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm that funds seed- and early-stage technology companies.
Senior Portfolio Analyst
2010 - 2012
A national social venture fund that invests in the country's leading social entrepreneurs and social innovations.
New Profit is a venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs.
Financial Management Program Associate
2009 - 2010
Corporate FP&A - preparing quarterly earnings materials, consolidation of total GE P&L, and analyzing key drivers to cash flow generation
GE Intelligent Platforms is a global provider of software, hardware, services, and embedded computing platforms.