/about

hi, i’m yana

what i care about

  • founders building the infrastructure that powers the future
  • long-term relationships > transactional noise
  • building confidence in brilliant people before they believe in themselves
  • bringing tech & financial literacy into schools
  • helping fund heart surgeries for children
  • supporting Cambridge and its alumni community; grateful to stay involved
  • working with kind, ambitious & pretty awesome people
  • cats, obviously

a few fun facts

  • walk & talk > zooms/seated meetings
  • daily sport > for mood & discipline
  • books = my version of rest (speed reader since childhood)
  • small talk < real talk (always curious what drives people)
  • speak 5 languages (including Mandarin)
  • spontaneous convos > planned networking
  • used to ballroom dance competitively and still believe, as Alan Watts said, that life is meant to be danced while the music plays
  • undefeated charades champion (not sorry)

let’s connect

featured in fortune, financial times, l'officiel & techcrunch, and always open to thoughtful convos