Mallun Yen

Founder/CEO/General Partner

2018 - Current

Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of enterprise founders.

Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit Co-Chair

2023

Board Of Directors

2021

Member, Council for Inclusive Innovation

2020

The Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2) is charged with strategizing new ways to expand American innovation by tapping into the strength of our nation’s diversity and increasing the opportunities for all Americans to participate in innovation.

Board of Directors, Audit Committee

2016 - 2021

Member of the Board of Directors of KQED, the public media organization for Northern California. Audit committee. Past committees include co-chair, strategic planning and CEO search.

COO and various

2012 - 2019

SaaStr (www.saastr.com) is the world's largest community of b-to-b software founders, executives and investors for sharing best learnings, insights and practices around building and scaling SaaS companies. What we do includes: Content, community and events, including our flagship SaaStr Annual (www.saastrannual.com) held in the San Francisco Bay Area each year, with 10,000+ founders, executives and investors in SaaS and anyone who wants to learn about latest innovations in SaaS. SaaStr Fund (www.saastrfund.com), a $90m venture fund that focuses on early-ish stage investments in SaaS/enterprise/B2B software. SaaStr Co-Selling Space (www.cosellingspace.com), co-sellling/co-working spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area for post-revenue start-ups in the b-to-b software industry.

Co-founder/CEO/Board Director

2005 - 2019

Founded in 2005, ChIPs advances and connects women in technology, law, and policy. We seek to accelerate innovation by increasing diversity of thought, participation, and engagement. Our membership is open to anyone who shares the ChIPs mission. We embrace and celebrate differences. We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. Now with over 3,500 members and multiple regional chapters, the informal dinner group has grown into a global nonprofit community whose backgrounds reflect the increasingly critical convergence of law, technology, and regulatory policy. Our members are engaged at the heart of lawmaking, policymaking, judicial and advocacy process. Among our numerous game-changing initiatives are the annual global summit, next ten summit, mock pitch events, and free ChIPs ALI institute to inspire teen girls to become [A]dvocates, [L]eaders and [I]nnovators.

Network Leader

2018 - 2019

Board of Directors/Executive Vice President/Chief Business & Product Officer

2010 - 2018

Worked with founding team since inception of RPX, the preeminent provider valuing, reducing, and insuring against patent risk using market-based, data driven solutions. Led teams responsible for nearly all aspects of the business, including product development, revenue and growth, M&A, corporate and business development, regulatory policy, and corporate strategy. Representative accomplishments include: IPO & Strategic Corporate Planning: Key member of executive team that took the organization from a venture-backed start-up to a public company in 2011. Revenue & Growth: Tripled revenue in four years by developing a number of novel products, including premium services, syndicated acquisitions, and insurance, and by evolving pricing, sales, and customer success models for the core business. Regulated Industries: Led and built the team that created from the ground-up RPX Insurance, the subsidiary through which RPX markets and sells A-rated, Lloyd’s-backed patent infringement insurance. Complex & Multi-national Deals: Led the team that put together the industry’s largest syndicated transaction. Built a consortium of over 40 U.S. and foreign corporations and acquired for $900M the remaining 4,000+ Nortel patent assets owned by Rockstar, a patent holding company formed by Apple, Blackberry, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony. This deal was so unprecedented and complex that it is taught as part of multiple Stanford Law School classes, including as the foundation of my spring 2016 class The Business of Intellectual Property: How Patents, Competition, Technology and Finance Converge.

Lecturer in Law

2015 - 2016

Spring 2016 Stanford Law School class -- The Business of Intellectual Property: How Patents, Technology, Competition and Finance Converge -- used the Nortel patents and mobile phone wars as a basis to teach students about the real world use, impact, and effect of patents on innovation, technology, and competition between major corporations.