Jerry Yang

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**Jerry Yang**
Jerry Yang
Born:	November 6, 1968 Taipei, Taiwan
Occupation:	Co-founder and Chief Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc.
Salary:	(unknown)
Net worth:	$2.6 billion USD (2006)
Spouse:	Akiko Yamazaki

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born November 6, 1968) is the Taiwanese American co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. He is one of two Chief Yahoo!s, board director and a former executive of the company. As of 2006 his net worth is about US$2.6 billion.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Yang moved to San Jose, California at the age of ten, with his single mother (Lily) and younger brother (Ken). His father had died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (shoe) on his arrival. Mastering the English language in only three years, he was soon placed into an AP English class.

Mr. Yang created controversy based on his public comments regarding Yahoo's role in the imprisonment of reporters in China. In particular his defense of Yahoo's willingness to turn over the identity of Chinese reporters who were later jailed.

Shi Tao was among those imprisoned.

Yang graduated from Piedmont Hills High School, then went on to receive his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Yang was recently named to the Stanford Board of Trustees. He co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Yang married Akiko Yamazaki, a Japanese American raised in Costa Rica. She is an anthropologist.