Jackie Yang

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Biography

Mr. Jackie Yang is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at TransLink Capital. He serves as a Board Member at Memoright and Parade Technologies. He served as the Board Observer at HzO. He brought over 10 years of venture investment experience to the team and was one of the most active investors in the semiconductor industry during that period. He is responsible for TransLink's investments in Montage, WinKing, Sandforce, and LensVector. Before starting TransLink, he was the Senior Vice President at UMC Capital and was responsible for UMC's investment activities in the United States and China. During his tenure at UMC Capital, he was the founding investor in Maxlinear, Inc.(NYSE: MXL), Montage Technology Group, and Parade Technologies, Ltd., and served on the board of Praesagus (acquired by Cadence Design Systems), WisChip (acquired by Micronas), Triscend (acquired by Xilinx), ForteMedia, Aicent, Inc., and Aurora Systems (acquired by OmniVision Technologies). He was also responsible for other portfolio companies including Silicon Wave Inc. (acquired by RF Micro Devices), Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD), and Intellon Corporation (NASDAQ: ITLN, acquired by Atheros). He received his MBA degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Tsinghua University - Taiwan. He served as Board Member at SoundHound and Peel.