Brian Yen

Brian Yen combined his passion for education and technology in the role of founding Executive Director of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Hong Kong Innovation Node. The Node focused on development of new innovation-driven educational programming, marrying MIT’s world leading innovation culture with regional talents. The Node is the only 100% MIT owned operations outside the MIT campus. The Node created original programing ranging from high intensity startup bootcamps to entrepreneur in residence incubation programs. Providing a vital missing link connecting academics to the real world via entrepreneurship.

A veteran of tech-based startups, Brian’s love of technology has taken him from video games to electronic medical records to scientific instruments. He was the co-founder of Any Channel, the developer of the world’s first consumer video games with full six degrees of freedom in real-time 3D, which was acquired by Micron Technology. In addition, he worked as VP of product develo-pment at iMedica, a leading electronic medical record supplier, and was a VP of business development at Rock Internet Corp, the new media arm of Rock Records, the largest Chinese record company at the time. He was also a co-founder of Sculpture Network, a low latency video link developer, recently acquired by Yuneec a Chinese consumer drone maker.

Since moving to Hong Kong in 2005, Brian has been a private consultant to US technology firms looking for strategic investment and partnership in China as well as investors requiring in-depth due diligence work done on Chinese technology firms. From 2010-2014 he consulted for Intellectual Ventures developing and acquiring high- value intellectual property with partner research institutions in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Brian Yen received his BA in Physics from Cornell University in 1986 and his MEng in Electrical Engineering from Cornell in 1989.