Yanbing Li

Dr. Yanbing Li was appointed to Equinix’s Board in 2025.

Yanbing is the Chief Product Officer at Datadog where she leads the team responsible for scaling the Datadog product portfolio to best meet the needs of its global customers and drive business growth.

Prior to joining Datadog, Yanbing was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Aurora, the first company to launch commercial driverless trucking services on public roads in the U.S., where she led all software development efforts for the company’s flagship autonomous driving product. During her tenure as Vice President of Product and Engineering at Google, she was responsible for multiple product areas in Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Commerce and Cloud Operations. Before joining Google, Yanbing served as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware.

Yanbing currently serves as a Limited Partner at Operator Collective, a venture fund and community of operator LPs focused on early-stage enterprise technology. She has previously served on the Boards of Directors for AVEVA and NeoPhotonics.

Yanbing holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2014.