CEO, CTO, CIO Advisor and Entrepreneur
Yan began his career in life sciences and medical device manufacturing with Edwards Lifesciences. Establishing and improving regulated systems for global design, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain across 10+ countries was achieved by Yan and team within his 13 year tenure. He quickly advanced the Information Technology leadership ranks becoming a director before the age of 28 holding leadership positions in network data center infrastructure, cyber security, business intelligence, software engineering, financial, supply chain and quality systems. Yan helped launch several centers of excellence operations to produce transcatheter heart valves, critical care electronics monitoring equipment and cannulae manufacturing helping Edwards grow from $700mm to over $1.5B. Yan then continued his pursuit of “helping to save lives with technology” joining SelectHealth, a not-for-profit insurance payer within the Intermountain Healthcare system. At Intermountain Healthcare/SelectHealth Yan led the technology architecture, business analysis, quality and software engineering integrations with the Affordable Care Act healthcare.gov platform, Yan helped orchestrate payer and provider systems Agile software development lifecycle transformations enabling efficient technology development. Yan was then recruited to be the Chief Information Officer of Utah’s largest conglomerate group of companies leading technology development and cyber security risk management for an NBA sports team, 65 auto dealerships, financial and insurance companies along with 60+ other businesses within the Miller group of companies. After a short period as head of platform-as-a-service at Pluralsight, one of Utah’s unicorn status companies, Yan ventured onto the entrepreneurial world. Co-founding several small startups in the new Utah industrial hemp sector, Yan helped launch several cannabidiol health supplement brands under Healthy Hive and improved the supply chain from farming to retail including agriculture automations. Yan maintains his technology cost saving consulting and sourcing business. Yan has also helped develop a business process outsourcing (BPO) in Indonesia staff augmentation business that has created high-tech opportunities in a third world country. Currently the staff BPO and staffing business is employing 80+ technical worker team members in cad design, cgi animation, contracts processing, customer service, electrical, mechanical and software engineering practices. In less than 2 years, EternaIndonesia.com is on pace to be one of the fastest growing small businesses process outsourcing companies in the country.
Yan is currently an advisor to Infinity Energy (former CEO), a renewable energy and battery energy storage engineering procurement and construction company based in the Sacramento, California suburb of Rocklin. Yan had led the team to grow revenue over 200% since joining in 2020, initially as CTO. As the CEO Yan helped the team endure the challenging COVID-19 pandemic era of supply chain disruptions, shutdowns and unprecedented inflation. Continuing to improve not only top line revenue growth during a global pandemic but simultaneously improving bottom line efficiencies was one of Yan’s greatest business challenges and accomplishments as a leader. Leveraging his analytics and business intelligence acumen, focusing on key metrics and measuring everything helps find inefficiencies and waste, down to the hour or penny. As CEO and always having a CTO aptitude, Yan has sought to find the next generation (made in the USA) sustainable energy technology since photovoltaic solar and battery supply chain disruptions have proven to be longer term problematic. Finding the next best sustainable energy technology to help preserve the earth and meet the growing electricity needs with increases in electrification of transportation and computing technology needs is now Yan’s personal mission, vision and purpose.
Yan is currently a partner in several entities that has invested in magnetic sustainable energy technology development as well as water management technology. Several promising magnetic technology innovations are making it through the patent and commercialization efforts that Yan has been involved in. Academic and scientific validations are being led by Yan to ensure the publication and adoption of potential break-through scientific discoveries helping inventors bring the new sustainable energy technology to mass market adoption in record time. In addition, Yan has partnered up with several carbon graphene scientists and global manufacturing entities to accelerate the release and manufacturing of American made super capacitor batteries. Yan is passionate about bringing to pass an “abundance of energy” very similar to how “mobile cellular broadband internet” transformed how humans share information and modernize life. Yan is helping to realize a future where every home and business can produce more than enough electricity for their own consumption and become self reliant.
Yan is available as a consultant, advisor or virtual executive (fractional CEO, CTO, CIO).
