Geoffrey Y. Yang Joins AT&T Board of Directors
25 June 2016 - 1:43AM
Business Wire
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has appointed Geoffrey Yang to its Board
of Directors. Mr. Yang is a founding partner and managing director
of venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures. He will serve on the
company’s Corporate Development and Finance Committee.
“Geoff has an outstanding track record in technology and
emerging forms of media and entertainment,” said Randall
Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T. “His extensive experience
in these areas is a terrific fit with AT&T and we look forward
to his contributions as a member of the board.”
Yang joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in 1987 and
co-founded Redpoint in 1999. Redpoint and its partners have
supported more than 40 IPOs and more than 60 acquisitions. At both
IVP and Redpoint, Yang has funded, helped found or served on the
boards for a variety of consumer media, Internet and infrastructure
companies, including Juniper Networks, Netflix, TiVo, MySpace and
Arista Communications.
Yang is a director of Franklin Resources, Inc. and several
private companies. He was previously a member of the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee and the advisory council
for the Stanford Graduate School of Business. And he has served as
a director of the National Venture Capital Association.
Yang holds a BSE in engineering from Princeton University and an
MBA from Stanford University.
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